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…
Here are all the pictures from last week’s Community Volunteer Awards.
We held our annual Community Volunteer Awards last Thursday. We’d like to congratulate all winners and runners up – there are some awesome people and organisations out there doing great work. Many thanks to Graham Liver for being master of ceremonies on the night – and, of course, we are Read more…
VOICE Breakfast Club have just received £600 from the ASDA Foundation Empowering Local Communities Fund. ASDA Blackburn’s Community Champion, Lynne Kozlowski, sponsored the application after volunteering with the group. VOICE have been serving Saturday breakfasts to the Borough’s homeless and socially isolated for over 10 years, the majority of which Read more…
The Friday 3rd November Focus Group Workshop at Community CVS to evaluate and comment on the Quality Mark for Volunteering that we are rolling out across Lancashire. They were exploring how it would best fit smaller community groups, enabling them to recruit and retain volunteers as well as being able Read more…
Dawn Juson, who along with Simone Chadwick, run Symbiosis Health and Well Being CIC. They applied for a Grant through the Community Asset Fund in September 2023 for the 7 week “Let’s Get Growing” project. They are passionate and dedicated to providing sustainable solutions for growing food to help with Read more…