The Lancashire Association of Councils for Voluntary Service (LACVS) are seeking to recruit for two new positions. These are part of the LOCAL Lancashire project. Project Co-ordinator Salary: £23,870 per annum (Full-Time Equivalent £29,439) Hours: 30 hours per week Location: Ability to work across Lancashire – but primary location – Read more…
This month’s meeting of our Community CVS Network will be taking place from 9.30am on Thursday 29th June in the Conference Room at the Boulevard Centre, 45 Railway Road, Blackburn. Community CVS holds monthly network meetings where Practitioners and Volunteer Coordinators from all sectors in the borough come together. Our Read more…
Due to high demand, we are pleased to announce that we have a brand new tranche of Community Volunteer Training coming up in July. These sessions will be taking place over the course of three Thursdays – the 6th, 13th and 20th – and are in addition to our previously-advertised Read more…
Who are your VCFSE heroes? Who has gone the extra mile to make Blackburn with Darwen a better place? Gongs are up for grabs at this year’s Community Volunteer Awards – and you can nominate people or groups you feel deserve recognition now. If you’d like to nominate an individual Read more…
Here are a few photos courtesy of Geoff Wilkinson which we’ve uploaded to our Facebook page. Volunteer Fair gallery Volunteer Party gallery
We’ve teamed up with our colleagues at the Chip In project and Reece Simpson of Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio, as well as a host of great local organisations, to say a massive THANK YOU to volunteers. You can view the video below, embedded from Chip In’s Facebook page.
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…
As part of National Volunteers’ Week, we’re launching a new Mentoring Workshop tomorrow. The workshop takes place from 1 to 4pm, and aims to help mentor feel informed and confident about the mentoring process and make the process enlightening and productive for the mentee. Contents include: – Slightly earlier, between Read more…
Our Volunteer Fair took place today from 10am to 2pm in our Boulevard Centre and met with considerable success. We are particularly grateful to have had the Leader of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, Cllr Phil Riley, in attendance, as well as to have enjoyed the company of such a Read more…
The Lancashire Association of Councils for Voluntary Service (LACVS) are seeking to recruit for two new positions. These are part of the LOCAL Lancashire project. Project Co-ordinator Salary: £23,870 per annum (Full-Time Equivalent £29,439) Hours: 30 hours per week Location: Ability to work across Lancashire – but primary location – Read more…