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Community Engagement

Community CVS helps organisations to engage with various communities, and helps  residents and excluded groups to have a voice. If you represent an organisation that needs to engage with a section of the community, we can help. Contact garth.hodgkinson@communitycvs.org.uk Some recent examples: 5 years of engagement activities with BME communities Read more…

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Community Centres

Community CVS is supporting the council by helping to develop community centres. We have been commissioned to support 5 volunteer- managed Community Centres which were asset-transferred from the local authority. We’re working with them to help: recruit and train volunteers build mutual support networks generate income develop activities that met Read more…

Bowel Cancer Screening

Community CVS hosts the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Community Engagement Team, who work throughout Lancashire to promote the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. What is NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme? It is a screening programme developed to identify signs which may indicate cancer.  Everyone aged 60-74 and registered with a GP Read more…

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Social inclusion football

Community CVS is challenging exclusion and connecting and developing people so that they can become assets in their communities through social inclusion football. Football is an important part of the social makeup of communities across the North West and as a result, it is seen as adding social value. People Read more…