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iMap Centre

iMap offer a range of services for both children and adults with Autism, learning disabilities and/or complex needs. Our main centre is based at Barrowmore.

Our day-to-day approach is underpinned by a highly qualified team who provide a wealth of experience, with a warm and supportive feel. iMap stands for individuals Making autism positive and the name was chosen by the parents of our young people. We are a centre of Autism Excellence and provide an outstanding range of autism-specific services for both children and adults. Our day-to-day approach is underpinned by highly qualified clinical, care, therapeutic and educational staff. We have individualised and progressive pathways to maximise people's independence. Our staff are passionate about and committed to quality care - 'We take the time to do things properly'. Our aim is to provide high quality personalised services that offer the best possible outcomes for children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism.

21/11/2025

Are you (or would you like to be...) a top notch Support Worker looking for work in a specialist setting for individuals with Autism?

We're currently recruiting for our Adults services in Winsford and Crewe, where our staff spend time with our supported individuals at the cinema, going swimming, zoo visits and trampolining to name a few!

Experience is helpful but not vital as we run mandatory induction training to get you up to speed

For more information drop Beth from our recruitment team at iMap an email:
beth.farrall@imapcentre.co.uk

14/11/2025

🎓Our iMap recruitment team (plus helpers!) recently attended The Pledge career fair at Cheshire College – South and West

It was amazing to speak to so many positive young people and encourage them to open their minds to the many opportunities their futures may hold 🧠

We hope that connecting with them may encourage some of the young people to embrace a rewarding career in social care or SEN education 📖🤝

It also gave us a brilliant chance to network and forge some potential new partnerships, not least with the inspiring work that do in creating work experience opportunities for people with autism and learning disabilities

🙏Thanks for having us and we’re excited to attend future events with The Cheshire & Warrington Pledge!

12/11/2025

A word from our Clinical Team Lead: 🍎 Training the Best to Be Even Better! 🍎

We're so proud of our dedicated school staff who spent time away from their usual busy schedules to complete their ProAct-SCIP Refresher Course! 🚀
It was a day filled with collaboration, learning, and yes... some essential practice to keep those skills sharp! 😉

This commitment to high-quality, up-to-date training truly reflects the shared values of both IMAP Centre and Loddon. We focused on:

Prioritising Safety & Wellbeing: Ensuring every student and staff member feels safe and supported is always our number one goal.

Professional Excellence: Investing in continuous professional development to provide the best possible care and intervention.

Positive & Proactive Support: Focusing on understanding needs and implementing positive strategies to help everyone thrive.

A huge thank you to everyone for embracing this training with such enthusiasm! 🙌 Your dedication makes a real difference every single day.

Tell us in the comments: What's the most valuable skill you've learned from a training course lately?

05/11/2025

Today is National Stress Awareness Day 🗣☕
Stress can effect our mental health and quality of life, and so it's important to manage it where we can. Take a minute where possible to step back and take a breath

We find our own ways of coping with stress, and can create environments that cause us less stress. This can begin through communicating our needs, taking time to ourselves, and paying attention to our individual self-care needs

As a little gift to our staff we've created gift pouches containing teabags, biscuits and a reminder of how to access our stress management tools on the Wisdom App😌

09/10/2025

🗣It's World Mental Health Day on the 10th October🗣
It's almost impossible to avoid the catastrophes and emergencies happening around the world currently, we're fed a steady stream through almost any media we access. While we may not be (in Cheshire, UK) in the midst of the war-zones or able to relate to some of the current struggles we see on our social media pages or news, but the constant exposure can lead to many feelings for example: overwhelm or helplessness and can affect our mental health.

We are sending out well-being toolkits to our staff to ensure they are equipped and have the support available should they or anyone they work with need it.

Good mental health isn't always achieved with bubble baths or a cup of tea, but sometimes through speaking to a professional to get things off our chests or through creating a wellness action plan for ourselves and following it.

Some ideas around keeping maintaining good mental health are well known, getting outside in the fresh air, spending time with loved ones and pets, visiting places that bring you pleasure i.e the aquarium, eating well where possible and allowing yourself treats.

08/10/2025

😀☕Happy International Coffee Day! ☕😀
October brings with it some important awareness days too but this is one of our favourites!
The drink we love is said to have been discovered back in the 9th century in Ethiopia, by a goat herder named Kaldi. He may have been the first to discover coffee beans when his goats started acting strangely after feeding on little berries. He tried them himself and the rest is history!
We love a brew, tea or coffee and making one for someone else can make someone's day, lower their stress levels and let them know you thought of them. So a (not so) random act of kindness today could be to pop the kettle on and surprise someone with a warm mug of their favourite.

24/09/2025

Young Minds is a charity dedicated to providing resources to promote good mental health for young people. The website is full of resources for either young people struggling, those who support them and organisations

We're supporting Young Minds on the 10th October for World Mental Health Day by wearing yellow

https://www.youngminds.org.uk/professional/resources/

23/09/2025

Be informed ℹ️
The National Autistic Society has spoken out around mis-information in light of recent events. If you're looking for information about autism please research through trusted bodies, The National Autism Society and the NHS are good starting points.

29/08/2025

👏We are so happy to share that our children's home has rated "Good" in all areas!
It highlights the amazing work our staff do there, and is such a good opportunity for us to extend our congratulations to them and feel very proud that the team have the recognition they deserve🎉

23/08/2025

As part of our International Youth Day activities the apprentices from Encirc helped pick the first batch of apples from our orchard at the Growing Garden 🍏🍎🍏

On top of all the work they accomplished for our sensory garden for our supported individuals the group picked over 100 apples in our first harvest of the season AND took them away to share with staff at their site not far from us

This is what we're all about at the Growing Garden, community building, supporting each other and sharing knowledge, time and in the end...produce! 🧑🏼‍🌾🧺

18/08/2025

📸Photos are coming in thick and fast of the brilliant day we had with Encirc volunteers!

We celebrated International Youth Day by hosting apprentices from their programme over at . They mostly worked in our sensory garden within the Growing Garden. They brought amazing energy and willingness to get stuck in, and we're so happy to see our partnership garden develop 🌱

They worked hard to complete the pathway to ensure accessibility and woodchipped the ground to help supress the weeds! Thank you so much and we look forward to seeing you all again!

photo credits:

15/08/2025

😊You may remember a post we made a few weeks ago featuring a new partnership we're excited about with ...they have so kindly funded several apprenticeships for iMap. This week we hosted International Youth Day and an amazing team of Encirc apprentices gathered at our new school and college Fern House and our Growing Garden.

🎨These shots are from Team A who started their day painting panelling in preparation for our Fern House September opening. Keep your eyes peeled for what they got up to in the afternoon, joining forces with Team B!

Massive thanks to all the individuals who attended, we absolutely loved hosting you!

We would also like to extend a huge thank you to who provided us with photographs for the day- all photo credits from the International Youth Day with Encirc are taken by him.

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IMap Centre, Barrowmore Estate, Barnhouse Lane
Great Barrow
CH37JA

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://www.imapcentre.co.uk/

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