Contact Information
Lincolnshire Rural Activities Centre,Kenwick Hill,Louth
Lincolnshire, LN11 8NR
Tel:01507 608 855
Registered Charity No:1032447
About Us
The Lincolnshire Rural Activities Centre (L.R.A.C) is a registered charity which enables people of all ages to access a wide range of training and recreational facilities offered by the facilities and the extensive equestrian grounds.
The Centre is situated in a conservation area on the outskirts of Louth, a small market town in the North East of Lincolnshire. Services and facilities at the centre are organised so that people with disabilities and people disadvantaged from mainstream activities can access and participate together with able bodied people assisting integration into community based activities
The LRAC provides access to a wide range of land based courses at entry level and Level 1 these include Horse Management, Horticulture, Conservation and Small Animal Care. They also have Catering, IT, and Health and Fitness programmes as well as embedding basic skills into the vocational areas. These activities are provided by the Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education who provide the operational side of the centre and deliver all the training. The centre also provides facilities and resources for main stream courses to access from the Institute main site.
In 2004, we became an Approved Training provider with the Lincolnshire & Rutland LSC to deliver a contract for 20 E2E places The ‘E2E’ programme, which provides a platform for young people to enter the labour market equipped with skills that they have been unable to achieve through mainstream education.
The LRAC has delivered European Social Fund (ESF) projects match funded with Lincolnshire County Council voluntary payment grants since 1993. These activities which have included training for people with disabilities, providing UK Online activities for people aged 50 years and over, alternative curriculum activities for young people at risk of exclusion from school and a research project looking at gender and career choice. Over the past two years the LRAC and collaboratively run Co-financed ESF projects through Lincolnshire and Rutland LSC to deliver ‘Bite-Size’ learning to re-engage people back into learning.
