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Training

Community CVS delivers training to both volunteers and voluntary and community groups. We can also point you in the direction of external training providers for both individuals and groups. Sign up to our bulletin to get the latest information on training. Recovery Access Point Training Our Recovery Access Point (RAP) training Read more…

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Community Engagement

Community CVS helps organisations to engage with various communities, and helps  residents and excluded groups to have a voice. If you represent an organisation that needs to engage with a section of the community, we can help. Contact garth.hodgkinson@communitycvs.org.uk Some recent examples: 5 years of engagement activities with BME communities Read more…

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Community Centres

Community CVS is supporting the council by helping to develop community centres. We have been commissioned to support 5 volunteer- managed Community Centres which were asset-transferred from the local authority. We’re working with them to help: recruit and train volunteers build mutual support networks generate income develop activities that met Read more…

Bowel Cancer Screening

Community CVS hosts the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Community Engagement Team, who work throughout Lancashire to promote the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. What is NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme? It is a screening programme developed to identify signs which may indicate cancer.  Everyone aged 60-74 and registered with a GP Read more…

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Social inclusion football

Community CVS is challenging exclusion and connecting and developing people so that they can become assets in their communities through social inclusion football. Football is an important part of the social makeup of communities across the North West and as a result, it is seen as adding social value. People Read more…

Help

If you need help and support, Community CVS can connect you to volunteers and groups in your community that can help with various life issues. Please contact steve.foden@communitycvs.org.uk , call in to the Boulevard Centre  or ring us on 01254 583957 if you would like help in finding some community Read more…

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Voice

Community CVS is working with and developing VOICE  –  a small community group which is run solely by volunteers. VOICE runs a breakfast club on a Saturday and has recently started up a Sunday club. Our volunteers are a mix of people who have a great empathy with those living Read more…

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Fast 4wd

Community CVS runs Fast 4wd to help service users who are engaged in treatment or who are in recovery from substance misuse, to help others in their community. Community CVS first developed the Fast 4wd Project in 2006 to help remove barriers that were preventing people who were engaging in Read more…