The story of
Blyth Star

Growth and Expansion

Our Living Support service was established first, with a number of service users moving from St George’s Hospital into our first block of supported living accommodation on Middleton Street in Blyth in 1987. The day services were close behind with the launch of a social care day service within Blyth’s former maternity hospital, Beulah House, in 1989 and the relocation of the gardening service from St George’s to a disused horticultural site in Stakeford, which would later become Stakeford Nurseries as it exists today.

The rest of Blyth Star’s services – The Woodfuel Centre, Woodwork Department, outreach services and in-house training programmes developed organically in the years that followed as the charity adapted itself to meet the needs of the individuals that we support, which by the early 2000s had expanded to include people with learning disabilities as well as mental health needs.