The Phoenix Hub applied to the Community Asset Fund and were awarded £2000 to establish their project. Miffy Clegg of Community CVS visited the Phoenix Hub last Thursday. Sandra showed her around the building and told her about some of the amazing work they have been doing. The Hub is accessible to anyone Read more…
The Community Asset Fund has twice awarded grants to the “Inspired By Art Project” at The Bureau – Centre for the Arts in Blackburn. It is an arts project for those in Recovery in Blackburn with Darwen who may not necessarily benefit from the traditional Group Model yet still need Read more…
Mohammed Kathrada & Miffy Clegg from Community CVS were invited today at lunch hour to attend the Halloween theme party at the Blackburn Nightsafe where young people got the chance to prepare a spooky Halloween feast for young people, with ghostly doughnuts and sweets. Nightsafe provides temporary living accommodation to Read more…
On Thursday afternoon, Community CVS’ Mohammed Kathrada was invited to attend the Arise Restoration Centre to see first hand how the centre engages with the local communities and projects by means of supporting residents with free foods. CVS staff got involved with sorting out assorted bread with long best before Read more…
On Monday 23rd October, Mohammed Kathrada was invited to attend the Pavilion Community Hub & Café, Corporation Park. This afternoon meeting with the director from the Lancashire Community Helpers (CIC), Steven Ball. The Lancashire Community Helpers have recently taken over The Pavilion to turn the building into a community hubs Read more…
Community CVS first charity to obtain new national Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) quality standard Community CVS, a charity from Blackburn with Darwen, has become the first charity in the UK to be awarded the Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) quality standard. This new standard is for volunteer infrastructure organisations who want Read more…
The next meeting of the Community CVS Network will take place on Thursday 26th October from 9.30am at the Boulevard Centre. An agenda is below: – If you’d like to learn more, please get in touch with Donna. (Photo: Fauxels via Pexels.com).
Blackburn with Darwen Youth Awareness Project support the Boulevard Centre with a free food counter located in the reception area. The free food counter is available from 10am until 3:30pm. Mohammed Kathrada, Project Lead for the project stated: It is great to see the YAP Community Fridge project is working Read more…
Mohammed Kathrada, was invited to attend the Offload Northwest session at Nightsafe. The project currently collaborating with Nightsafe service users. The service provides free and confidential mental health and wellbeing befriending service during the lunch hour every Wednesdays. Offload Northwest operates mainly on Mondays (Men’s Hub – 7-9pm) and Wednesdays (Women’s Read more…
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