We’re proud of our Community Volunteer Awards, which we operate alongside our partners at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. It’s always a joy to be able to say “thank you” to those organisations and members of our communities who go the extra mile to make Blackburn with Darwen a better Read more…
As a leading support organisation for the local voluntary and community sector in Blackburn with Darwen and Lancashire, Community CVS strongly condemns the violent disorder that has erupted over the past few days. We recognise that this violence stems from deep-seated issues of racism and xenophobia, and we denounce the Read more…
The Infant Feeding Community Grants offers small grants of between £250 and £1,000 to groups for promoting and supporting breastfeeding among families within Blackburn with Darwen. We would be interested in funding local groups to creatively address our aims to support new mums to start breastfeeding or continue to breastfeed Read more…
Know a fantastic volunteer who deserves recognition for the selfless work they do? Nominate them in this year’s Community Volunteer Awards. We’re accepting nominations until 5pm on Friday 30th August. Arranged by Community CVS and Blackburn with Darwen Council, these awards recognise the individuals and groups who do whatever they Read more…
The Community Kitchen were successful with their application to the Community Asset Fund in April and received £2000 towards the running of their project. The Peer led group provides a safe welcoming environment where people can go and have a free meal and hot drink twice a week at St. Read more…
We recently collaborated with Selnet to provide Community CVS members with a short training session on Understanding Artificial Intelligence (Ai) and An Introduction to Chat GPT, led by Chris Trickett. The session was a great success. Here is some of the feedback we received: – This was the first of Read more…
Please check out the minutes of the last Community CVS Network, held on Thursday 25th July, below. Many thanks to Leah Harrison for stepping in to chair the meeting in Donna’s absence. There will be no meeting in August, with the next meeting taking place on Thursday 26th September from Read more…
Darwen Pride applied to the Community Asset Fund in June and were awarded £2000 to put towards the running of their first Darwen Pride event, held in Darwen Market Square on Saturday 13th July. They were also successful with their application for £1000 to the BwD Community Fund. Starting at Read more…
ROOTS Community do a Community Clean Up every Tuesday from 10am. They will meet up at the back of the Red Rose Offices so they can go to an area en masse, ready to target an area blighted by rubbish, fly tipping and overgrown vegetation. This week, they came to Read more…
Please check out the list of awareness days and weeks for August below. Throughout August Specific dates (Photo: Jess Bailey Designs via Pexels.com).