We are delighted to announce that our well-received Asylum Seeker Awareness in Health & Social Care training is back for another tranche. The free, fully-funded training, a collaboration between Community CVS and Spring North which has been developed to benefit Health & Social Care and VCFSE organisations, aims to raise Read more…
Community groups are invited to apply for up to £3,000 to plant between five and 25 fruit trees as part of the Coronation Living Heritage Fund’s Community Orchard Grant Scheme. The Coronation Community Orchard Grant Scheme is a small grants programme for community groups in: It is intended to provide Read more…
Please check out the list of awareness days and weeks for July below. Throughout July Specific dates (Photo: pepifoto via iStock).
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Small grants of £250 to £1,000 are available to groups for promoting and supporting breastfeeding. among families within Blackburn with Darwen. Deadline for applications is 12 noon on Monday 15th July. In Blackburn with Darwen we want to encourage as many families as possible to breastfeed their babies. There are Read more…
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Councillor Damian Talbot Executive Member – Public Health, Prevention and Wellbeing Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to say a few words of introduction at today’s conference, before you move into the first workshops. I think when we talk about people, participation and health this is very Read more…
Here is a wonderful review of how organisations in Blackburn with Darwen celebrated their brilliant volunteers during Volunteers’ Week earlier this month. Many thanks to Miffy for collating these. VOICE VOICE presented their volunteers with a box of chocolates and a certificate to thank them for donating their time every Read more…
In the coming months, Blackburn with Darwen Council is taking forward a range of activity to support those residents in the Borough who are digitally excluded. As a first stage in that plan, over the next few weeks, council colleagues are finalising the production of a printed leaflet to signpost Read more…
Know a fantastic volunteer who deserves recognition for the selfless work they do? Nominate them in this year’s Community Volunteer Awards. Arranged by Community CVS and Blackburn with Darwen Council, these awards recognise the individuals and groups who do whatever they can to make live better for others in our Read more…