Secret Santa applied to the Community Asset Fund in October and were successful in their application. The project is coming up to it 7th Christmas providing Christmas presents to children across Blackburn with Darwen. Secret Santa has its shop in the Mall where they sell toys and gifts in brand Read more
Prevent2Protect received a grant from the Community Asset Fund in October to run Boxing Fitness Sessions. The Project is for 15 participants from the Recovery Community to take part in Boxing based fitness over 15, two-hour sessions that will run until the beginning of March 2024. It is being run Read more
On Wednesday 15th November, Mohammed Kathrada visited Whitehall Park Supporters’ Group located within the grounds of Whitehall Park in Darwen. Mohammed met with Rita (secretary) and Vicki (Member) from the group. The Whitehall Park Supporters’ Group is run by dedicated volunteers who have come together to maintain the park’s green Read more
The next meeting of the Community CVS Network will be taking place on Thursday 23rd November from 9.30 in the Conference Room at our Boulevard Centre. The agenda is below. If you’d like to see minutes from the last meeting, please head over to this page. (Image: Christina Morillo via Pexels.com).
This week we welcome the latest tranche of volunteers onto our Community Volunteer Training, led by the brilliant Denise Hayhurst. Here are a few photos: –
In the lead up to the event the Curry Club raised £1000 for Macmillan with a collection made on the day – estimated to be over another £500! Organisations who were present at the event include Minds Matters, Purple Patch, Breast Screening, Bowel Cancer Screening, SAS Rights, Kiran Womens Group, Read more
Sons of Anxiety Strength Club were successful with their application to the Community Asset Fund in October. The Fund has helped the project to continue running their sessions and buy more equipment. Sons of Anxiety Strength Club meets every Sunday at 3-5pm for strongman/woman training sessions. The sessions are free Read more
Can you spare just four hours per month (outside of school hours)? Do you want to help improve the lives of local children? Blackburn Independent Visitors & Mentoring Services (a collaboration between Barnardo’s and the Borough Council) need your help. They are looking for volunteers to offer a few hours Read more
Thank you to Offload Northwest for inviting Mohammed Kathrada to Nightsafe, who have received ambient food donation from Offload Northwest that the hub received from individual donors during their Monday men’s hub session. The donated food products will be used by Nightsafe as part of lunch time food preparation for Read more
Mohammed Kathrada of Community CVS was invited along to the Curry Club, based at Little Harwood Community Centre, earlier this week to volunteer and share experience in preparing a nutrient-rich, fresh, warm meal for the community. He said: “Today I got the taste of how a meat biryani is prepared Read more