Fast 4wd Recovery Support Volunteers We are looking for volunteers to assist us with this project helping to support individuals accessing substance misuse services in the Blackburn with Darwen area. Providing a level of advocacy and mentoring to individuals, helping them to achieve goals and targets set out in their Read more…
Sightline telephone befriending service is looking for volunteers to expand its service into the sight loss community following a successful bid to the National Lottery Reaching Communities Programme. People with a visual impairment, many of whom have faced social isolation since their initial diagnosis of sight loss, have found the Read more…
Please see below for a message from Kat at UCLan’s Centre for Volunteering. Hi, I hope you are keeping safe and well during these strange and difficult times. UCLan is trying to get use to this new way of life for a university and even though we don’t have many Read more…
Supporting Life Recovery What about you? Do you have experience of supporting a family member, friend or colleague in relation to alcohol or substance misuse? If so and would like to access support or help others Please contact us for more information about our “RAFT” Training. Peer Support. Volunteering Opportunities. Read more…
Supporting Life Recovery Do you have experience of Substance Misuse Services in any capacity or a general interest in helping people whom are in or working towards Recovery? Would you like to access Volunteering opportunities Training Work towards employment or further education Help grow and support the Recovery Community Then Read more…
Community CVS has developed a Volunteer Bank in order to support organisations seeking volunteers in the borough. We have a pool of over 90 volunteers who from April to October 2015 gave over 23,500 hours voluntary support to Community CVS projects and other community groups. Community CVS volunteers have been Read more…
Through Community CVS activities and our engagement with local networks and decision makers we are working to create a positive environment in which volunteering in the borough continues to flourish. Community CVS works with partners from all sectors to connect people and grow communities through the development and coordination of Read more…
Fast 4wd organises Recovery Access Points at numerous community venues across the borough where people seeking support can make contact with recovery support volunteers. Fast4wd volunteers help with: Learning Development of skills Responsibility Positive changes Development of confidence Ability and independence outside of treatment services Ability to operate more independently Read more…
“Volunteering has helped get me out of the house and meet new people. I feel confident enough now to move forward and get back into employment and join in activities within the local community”. Our Inclusive Volunteering Project, is delivered across the 4 localities in the borough. It was first Read more…
MEAM (Making Every Adult Matter) Community CVS is supporting other partner organisations in the borough by delivering the volunteering support element of MEAM initiative – Making Every Adult Matter). This is where Community CVS volunteers engage with people with severe and multiple disadvantages who are residing in houses of multiple Read more…