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St Helens VCSE Forum - 23 September

The next St Helens VCSE Forum will be held on 23rd September at The Beacon Building in St Helens.  We are bringing key partners together to connect with the sector to provide and share key developments on St Helens Cares and we will update on key work and initiatives in St Helens...

Halton Credit Union Official Launch Day

Halton Credit Union now has a Widnes town centre office and are having an official launch this Saturday 7th September at 2.30pm. 110 Widnes Road, Simms Cross, Widnes (up the road from ASDA next door to Dominos). The Mayor, Councillor Margaret Horabin will be cutting the ceremonial ribbon and MP Derek Twigg will be in attendance. Goody bags, piggy banks, pens and a Join for Free voucher (valid until the end of September) together with information leaflets will be given to all those who attend. A buffet and hot and cold drinks will be also provided...

Liverpool City Region Listens

Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram launched LCR Listens earlier this month. The exercise is engaging with people across all six boroughs that make up the Liverpool City Region, asking people’s opinions on a wide range of topics, including transport, jobs and skills, the environment, housing and culture, to shape how the city region develops.  LCR Listens is an opportunity for everyone in the city region to have their say on the issues that are important to them. The feedback the Combined Authority receives will specifically influence its Local Industrial Strategy, which will set out the long-term economic vision for the Liverpool City Region, providing a framework for its investment decisions, and for conversations with government about how we work together, through devolution, to maximise prosperity for all people and communities...

Renting Opportunity With Umbrella Halton

There is a modular building behind St Edwards church in Ivy Street, Runcorn postcode WA7 5ZN which is available for rent at £7,750 per annum. It consists of a main room 9.0x8.25 m, store cupboard 1.0x1.2m, kitchen 2.4x2.75m, lobby 2.3x4.0m, male, female and disabled access toilets. Until recently the space has been used as a breakfast and after school club...

Volunteer Opportunity at CAVSG

Cheshire Asbestos Victims Support Group are looking for a volunteer to help expand their website.  To find out more about what they require please contact them...

EU Settlement Scheme

All EU, EEA or Swiss Citizens living in the UK must apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 30 June 2021. The deadline for applying is 30 June 2021. Migrant Help are offering outreach sessions to help vulnerable EU citizens fill in the ‘EU Settlement Scheme’ application forms, this includes Roma gypsy communities, the elderly, victims of domestic abuse or modern day slavery, young carers, people with disabilities or those with serious health conditions...

Halton Adults Safeguarding Board Training

The Halton Safeguarding Adults Board (HSAB) is able to subsidise a small programme of training to enhance opportunity and access to learning across Halton. They have released their 2019/2020 Training Programme. This training is offered free of charge to those living and working in Halton and who have a direct involvement in the care and support of adults with additional needs. This includes volunteers, carers, those employed through a personal budget and those who use services...

St Helens CCG AGM - 11th September

St Helens CCG would like to invite you to their Annual General Meeting (AGM) - and film premiere of 'St Helens - Dream to Reality' on Wednesday 11th September 12.30pm at Cineworld St Helens. This will be an opportunity to hear from the CCG’s Governing Body about the work undertaken in 2018/19; including their achievements, key challenges and an update on the annual accounts. This year the annual report summary is being presented in the form of a film: ‘St Helens - Dream to Reality’ which illustrates the journey the CCG has been on over the last year. As this is the premiere of the film, the event is being held at Cineworld St Helens from 12.30pm until 2pm, with tea and coffee served from 12.30pm and the feature beginning at 1pm...

Volunteering Opportunities at Halton OPEN

If you have retired and miss the company of work colleagues and being occupied at work, why don’t you consider becoming a volunteer or committee member for Halton OPEN. As a volunteer you will be able to socialise with others and help at their social groups by talking, making tea, organising games etc. to help combat isolation and loneliness in older people. As a committee member you would be able with other committee members influence health and welfare issues of older people in Halton, and they encourage fellow committee members to raise issues and be outgoing. The prime objective of Halton OPEN is to provide a collective voice of people aged 50 plus who live and work in the Halton borough...

Managing Workplace Stress - 24th September

Fully funded training for those in paid employment. We encounter stress every day, and many people work in highly stressful environments. This 3-hour session will equip you with tools to identify and manage workplace stress. The course includes how to Recognise the symptoms associated with stress; Understand the formation and causes of workplace stress; Understand how thought processes influence stress; Identify coping strategies to manage stress. Eligibility criteria does apply, as the training is part-funded through the European Social Fund. To come along to the training you must be employed and live in the Liverpool City Region...

Caring Connections - Impact Report 2019

Caring Connections is a registered charity, specialising in the delivery of care and support services across Merseyside. They are a registered provider with the Care Quality Commission and on the contracted framework with all Merseyside local authorities. Alongside their commitment of ‘connecting people to the highest quality of care’ they are also dedicated to the development of their workforce and the delivery of community projects which support the ethos of ‘improving the lives of local people’. This report enables Caring Connections to communicate the impact they have had over the last year – the impact on service users, local communities, employees and the impact on the local economy...

VCA Membership 

Halton and St Helens VCA are pleased to welcome our new and re-registered affiliated, non-affiliated and associate members.  We all look forward to working with you.

If you'd like to find out about your membership status, click on the link below which will take you to our current list of Affiliated and Associate members, or call Lynne Daffern or Debbie Morris on 01928 592405 / 01744 457100  for more information. 

https://www.haltonsthelensvca.org.uk/vca-membership-list

Don't Forget...

Volunteer Recruitment Fairs 2019

Halton Volunteer Centre are holding two Volunteer Recruitment Fairs in Widnes later this year.  The fairs will be a market place style event for the most part. However, we would like to make the event as exciting and interactive as possible, so please feel free to be creative when considering how you might engage with the general public & students. We would request that your stand is manned for the whole time, so that the last visitor has a good experience as the first one. Also, we ask that fundraising tins etc are not put out on your stand as this is purely a recruitment fair. The first one will be held at Kingsway Campus on 1st October and the second one will be held at Cronton Sixth form college on 8th October...

VCSE Connect

Information about the voluntary, community, charitable sector still remains one of the key issues raised by professionals and clinicians when you ask the question “What could the voluntary sector do?” or “How can I refer this person to something more appropriate?”

As the gateway into the sector, Halton & St Helens VCA holds lots of information and data about local voluntary action.  We have produced that in great detail, in “Here to Help”, provided a search facility on our website, share information with key organisations and have many different ways of sharing what groups do, but still people say they don’t know what groups exist, what they do and how they get to them or refer to them.  So Halton & St Helens VCA has been working on an extension to our database which will display information about groups in an easy format, tell you what they do and when, allow clinicians and other key professionals to log-in directly and make a referral directly to the group (as long as they have agreed to receive referrals).  This means for the first time there will be a single place where referrals to the local voluntary and community sector can be made.

If you would like your organisation to be included in the VCSE Connect directory...

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