We are thrilled to share more exciting news with you regarding our successful bid for More Better Days and the award for Best Counselling Service in Dudley, West Midlands. Five years funding from The National Lottery’s Community Fund has been secured to support a reimagined and hugely successful project, now called: MORE BETTER DAYS to support [...]
We are thrilled to share the news that Christian Dixon, our Chief Executive has been named in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours list, for a British Empire Medal (BEM) for his services to mental health alongside The Arts of Change Trust across Dudley and the Black Country. Christian is due to receive this prestigious medal at [...]
Hi all. The festive season is upon us and The AoC, The AoC Trust, and ACC Contact Centre will be closing their doors for 2-weeks. We will break up at 3:00 pm on Friday 15th December 2023 and return on Tuesday 2nd January 2024 to welcome all of our lovely clients, staff and Therapeutic Clinicians back, [...]
The ACC Children's Contact Centre will be making some changes to their services for 2022. As of December 1st 2021, ACC will no longer be providing Supervised or Escorted contact. This means all families currently receiving supervised or escorted contact with us will be finished by December 1st 2021. We will however, continue to provide other [...]
The ACC Contact Centre has won the National Covid-19 Hero & Innovation Award during an award Ceremony by The National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC). During the pandemic of 2020, many child contact centres across the UK were forced to close their doors, but one centre, ACC Dudley Child Contact Centre, continued to stay open [...]
The AoC have successfully delivered 1-to-1 therapy and counselling to a number of clients who have been referred to us by Dudley Voluntary Service also know as Dudley CVS & Integrated Plus. They refer clients to us that are known High Intensity Users (HIU) for us to offer them support with any issues they may be [...]
The ACC Dudley Children's Contact Centre have been nominated for an award from The National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC). The award is known as the COVID-Hero Award for contact centres who have continued to support families throughout the pandemic. ACC continued to work through the pandemic by offering video call contact sessions via Zoom, [...]
The AoC have created a new 2 part Digital Presentation Pack that helps to promote all of our services and projects, current and future plans and goals, through a 4k shot video and 36 page guide. We also include a shortened overview of the 36 page guide. You can view all of the above using the [...]
The AoC Trust are happy to announce that our highly successful ProjectME Mindcraft will be moving into its 3rd year! The project is in association with and funded by Children In Need to provide counselling and therapy to children and young people aged 3-18. They must be living in the Dudley, Wolverhampton or Sandwell borough and [...]
The AoC and Black Country Women's Aid will continue to work together to offer support to their clients. The clients will received support for any issues they are experiencing such as domestic violence, modern slavery and much more. During the Coronavirus pandemic, we will only be offering telephone and Zoom video calls sessions until lock down [...]
