ABSTRACT
Togher Pre-School and Family Centre is a voluntary, community based project located in the heart of an estate in Togher, Cork City, Ireland, occupying an extended and modified three bedroom house. The centre provides for the needs of 2,525 local authority built homes that are situated in the Northern end of the Togher Parish. The centre developed from a long established community-based pre-school facility (1973). The pre-school work has always been characterised by a great sense of local identification and this laid the foundation for a large element of parental involvement. The primary focus of the work is on early childhood education and development in partnership with parents. At present, the family centre provides a pre-school, a crèche, after school activities for 4–12 year olds and adult development programmes using self-directed groupwork.
