Check out details of Offload Northwest’s Bank Holiday provision below. You can get more details in the attached image. This holiday season, no one should have to face it alone. Whether you’re navigating isolation or working through a recovery journey, we’re here for you. Come join us for a warm, Read more
Our Community Volunteer Training has everything your volunteers need to get the most out of their volunteering., while the Quality Mark workshops offer a wide range of useful information and expertise for volunteer managers. Blackburn: Community Volunteer Training Led by the excellent Denise Hayhurst, Community Volunteer Training takes place over Read more
Please Help Us Deliver Much-Needed Skills Support for Lancashire – Action Requested Community CVS is preparing to tender for the delivery of three transformative Skills for Life Bootcamps in Lancashire. These programmes are designed to address critical workforce development needs and provide much-needed skills support for individuals and businesses in Read more
Community CVS is pleased to announce the appointment of its Chief Executive, Garth Hodgkinson, as a Trustee on the Board of the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA). This milestone highlights Blackburn with Darwen’s growing prominence in the voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector. NAVCA is Read more
Looking to hold a meeting in the heart of Blackburn? We have a number of meeting rooms available to rent, at highly-competitive half day and full day rates! You will also have access to an on-site kitchen – and, of course, our friendly staff and volunteers are on hand to Read more
Please check out the minutes of the last CVS Peer Network, held on Thursday 28th November, below. The dates for 2025 are as follows: – All meetings are slated to take place between 9.30 and 11.30am in the Conference Room at our Boulevard Centre, 45 Railway Road, Blackburn BB1 1EZ.
We would like to offer our congratulations to St. James Church Over Darwen, who have secured The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s support for vital work to help save and restore the historic church building for the local community. The funding will support assessment and planning work on the historic building Read more
This month’s Flying Start Business Network event took place on Thursday 5th December and, as ever, featured some great speakers and provided a lot of knowledge a well as networking opportunities. We had some great feedback and look forward to seeing you all again at the next one. Minutes January’s Read more
As part of the 6Ps VCFSE Strategy for Blackburn with Darwen, which sets out the priorities for its operations until 2030, the BwD Community Network are looking to create an action group for organisations that support women. If you would like to be part of this working group, we would Read more
Andrea from our Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Health Promotion Team attended a couple of health promotion events on Saturday. The first was a Christmas Fair at the United Reformed Church in Chorley from 11am to 2pm, where Andrea met Santa (she had a stall in the model railway room which Read more