Magistrate Mary Lower set up the Nottingham Access Centre more than 30 years ago, as a safe, neutral and informal space where children could spend time with parents who were no longer living with them after a divorce or family breakdown. Since then, the charity has grown into the National Association of Children Contact Centres (NACCC), an umbrella organisation for 380 centres across much of the UK (excluding Scotland) and Ireland, supporting 13,000 children a year.
The transformation from small, local charity to nationwide organisation was helped when Lower’s work became one of the early winners of the Guardian Charity Awards in 1994. The awards were initiated to offer small and medium-sized charities across the UK a financial boost, specialised training and to put the winners on the map. Now in their 24th year, the Guardian Charity Awards 2016 open today for entries.
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