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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DARE (Darwen Asylum and Refugee Enterprise) is a wonderful project which is led by local VCFSE stalwart John East (pictured). Many thanks to John for passing on the synopsis of DARE and their great work to Mohammed Kathrada of Community CVS, which you can read below. DARE started officially in Read more…
Mohammed Kathrada recently attended Arise Restoration Centre, based at Melia Business Centre, 17 Railway Darwen BB3 2RG, meeting with Roderick (Rickie) West (pictured). Arise Restoration Centre was recently awarded funding from the Community Asset Fund to run a Health & Wellbeing Initiative project. The centre received funding to purchase bicycles Read more…
The Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Chip In are bringing you the opportunity to run a community log reindeer making event over 6 sessions on the run up to Christmas! You will learn how to market and run an event, meet new people, learn about woodworking tools and how to make Read more…
Chip in are excited to share that they have been working closely with our partners Blackburn Rovers Community Trust to bring you a free mental health and wellbeing workshop with Lancashire Mind. The workshop is pencilled in for December. Keep an eye out on their Facebook page for more information.