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Gallery: 2023 Community Volunteer Awards
Here are all the pictures from last week’s Community Volunteer Awards.
@ Community Volunteer Awards
2023 Community Volunteer Awards event celebrates community heroes
We held our annual Community Volunteer Awards last Thursday. We’d like to congratulate all winners and runners up – there are some awesome people and organisations out there doing great work. Many thanks to Graham Liver for being master of ceremonies on the night – and, of course, we are Read more…
@ VOICE
VOICE Breakfast Club awarded grant by ASDA Foundation
VOICE Breakfast Club have just received £600 from the ASDA Foundation Empowering Local Communities Fund. ASDA Blackburn’s Community Champion, Lynne Kozlowski, sponsored the application after volunteering with the group. VOICE have been serving Saturday breakfasts to the Borough’s homeless and socially isolated for over 10 years, the majority of which Read more…
@ Volunteering Quality Mark
Volunteering Quality Mark Focus Group looks at volunteer recruitment and funding
The Friday 3rd November Focus Group Workshop at Community CVS to evaluate and comment on the Quality Mark for Volunteering that we are rolling out across Lancashire. They were exploring how it would best fit smaller community groups, enabling them to recruit and retain volunteers as well as being able Read more…
@ Community Asset Fund
Symbiosis Health and Well Being set to Get Growing with Community Asset Fund grant
Dawn Juson, who along with Simone Chadwick, run Symbiosis Health and Well Being CIC. They applied for a Grant through the Community Asset Fund in September 2023 for the 7 week “Let’s Get Growing” project. They are passionate and dedicated to providing sustainable solutions for growing food to help with Read more…
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Community CVS Network – October 2023 minutes
The minutes of October’s Community CVS Network have been published. You can read them below. (Image: Christina Morillo via Pexels.com).
@ Aspiring Leaders in Health and Social Care
Aspiring Leaders in Health and Social Care Skills Bootcamp
The Aspiring Leaders in Health and Social Care programme is aimed at people in the Health and Social Care Sector wishing to progress in their career. The programme takes the form of a Skills Bootcamp and is part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee. Skills Bootcamps are free, flexible courses Read more…
@ Community Asset Fund
Phoenix Hub – a Community Asset Fund supported project
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…
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Inspired By Art Project @ The Bureau – Community Asset Fund
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…
@ Promoting your organisation
Community CVS staff at Nightsafe’s spooky Halloween feast
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…