To help everyone celebrate volunteering and thank their volunteers, we are providing free Volunteers’ Week certificates that you can fill in and personalise for your own volunteers. If you’d like to collect some for you volunteers, please feel free to get in touch with us with the number of certificates Read more
Please check out our list of awareness days and weeks taking place during June. This includes the 40th anniversary of Volunteers’ Week, a chance for us to say a massive thank you to the amazing volunteers who are the absolute lifeblood of our sector. Volunteers’ Week Monday 3rd-Sunday 9th June Read more
To mark Volunteers’ Week, Chip in and Blackburn Rovers Community Trust are putting on their second mental health and wellbeing drop in event on Wednesday 5th June from 4-6pm in conjunction with Community CVS and the Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Trust. There will be a range of activities on offer Read more
There’s a wonderful article in the Lancashire Telegraph by Peter Magill, focussing on the fantastic work being done by Paul Walker and the BwD Diabetes Peer Support Group. Paul has gone from being a client here at Community CVS to offering peer support for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes to Read more
The next meeting of our CVS Network will take place on Thursday 23rd May from 9.30am in our Boulevard Centre. You can view the agenda below: – April minutes Find out more If you’d like to learn more about the CVS Network, please feel free to get in touch with Read more
Please check out our latest weekly bulletin below. Our bulletins are jam-packed with all the latest from Community CVS and the local VCFSE, as well as news which we hope will be of interest. (Image: mali maeder via Pexels.com).
We would like to invite you to be part of ‘The 6Ps VCSFE Conference,’ a great opportunity to have your say and network, the event will take place on Tuesday 4th June between 10am and 2pm in King William Street, Blackburn and at Blackburn Central Library. The event will commence with Read more
Our Annual General Meeting will take place on Tuesday 4th June from 2.15pm in the Hornby Lecture Theatre at Blackburn Central Library. There are vacancies on the CVS Executive Board to which a nomination form can be found here which should be returned to us by noon on Friday 31st Read more
Recently, Paul from The Contenders Boxing Club popped into the Boulevard Centre to present our Staff members Miffy and Marselle with a beautiful bunch of flowers to thank them for their continued support. Paul who is a boxing coach came to CVS to enquire about applying for funding from the Read more
Here is a handy list of awareness and action days, weeks and months coming up through the first fortnight in May. Make May Purple – Action on Stroke Month Wednesday 1st-Friday 31st May Big Asthma Bake Sale Wednesday 1st-Friday 31st May National Walking Month Wednesday 1st-Friday 31st May National Share-a-Story Read more