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…
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…
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…
The Golden Trust UK is developing a new directory of services to link adults to the right support in the community, including crisis contacts, services to support individuals, and connecting people to social inclusion activities that help improve wellbeing, social connections and help overcome any vulnerabilities.