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…
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…
Community CVS first charity to obtain new national Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) quality standard Community CVS, a charity from Blackburn with Darwen, has become the first charity in the UK to be awarded the Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) quality standard. This new standard is for volunteer infrastructure organisations who want Read more…
The Lancashire Wildlife Trust and Chip In are bringing you the opportunity to run a community log reindeer making event over 6 sessions on the run up to Christmas! You will learn how to market and run an event, meet new people, learn about woodworking tools and how to make Read more…
Chip in are excited to share that they have been working closely with our partners Blackburn Rovers Community Trust to bring you a free mental health and wellbeing workshop with Lancashire Mind. The workshop is pencilled in for December. Keep an eye out on their Facebook page for more information.
Last week, the panel met for the very tough process of working out shortlists for the various Community Volunteer Awards. With so many high quality nominees, they certainly had their work cut out! Many thanks to the delegates who attended on the day. Click here to see the full list Read more…
We are inviting all the schools in Blackburn with Darwen to enter our competition to design our centrepieces for this year’s Community Volunteer Awards. The awards, which are now in their fifth year, recognise individuals and groups who go the extra mile to make lives better for residents across the Read more…
A brilliant training day, out of the office, at Turton Tower. Community CVS lead team building and practical mentor skills for mentors of the Chip In partnership by Denise Hayhurst at this beautiful historic location. Amazing location, gorgeous food, fabulous mentors. Other free training is available for volunteers & voluntary Read more…
Want to nominate your community heroes? People and organisations who’ve gone the extra mile to improve the lives of people in our communities around Blackburn with Darwen? Better get your skates on – nominations close this Friday! You can nominate your heroes via the online form, which you can find Read more…
Renee Black was part of the very small Jewish community in Lancashire, living in a mainly South East Asian community in Blackburn, Renee wanted to be part of that community and she continued her voluntary work up until the end. Everyone knew her, she was very straight forward and you Read more…