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Shortlist For Pride Of St Helens Business Awards Revealed

The finalists of the inaugural Pride of St Helens Business Awards, which look to celebrate and raise the profile of outstanding business achievers, have been unveiled. The awards evening will be held on Thursday, November 15 at Saints' Totally Wicked Stadium in partnership with the Star and the SPF. Halton & St Helens VCA are proud to be sponsoring The Community Impact Award, the shortlists for this award are Apex Charitable Trust, Co-op Lea Green Distribution Centre and Groundwork.  Everyone at VCA would like to congratulate all the shortlisted candidates and wish them luck for the awards...


Volunteer Quiz Night

Volunteer Centre Halton's annual Christmas Quiz night for volunteers & co-ordinators/managers is on Monday 3 December 2018, 7.30-10pm. The quiz is free to enter. Teams max 6 people - at least one must be a volunteer. If you don't have a full team, we can help you to join another team. Half time free refreshments. Bring your own tipple...


Diabetes UK St Helens and District November Meeting

The next meeting of the St Helens & District Group of Diabetes UK will be on Wednesday 7th November 2018 at 7.30pm in St Helens United Reformed Church. The speaker will be Nicola Jackson who will be talking on the subject of "Eating well with diabetes", Nicola is a Diabetes Dietitian from the Specialist Diabetes Unit in St Helens Hospital, she will be helping you to understand how you can improve your diet so you can hopefully improve the control of your diabetes. They would particularly like to welcome anyone who has been recently diagnosed with diabetes and has not been to a meeting before. They have a large selection of free diabetes leaflets available...


Launch Event for A Better Tomorrow

You are invited to attend the launch event for the new Halton Multi-Ethnic community group "A Better Tomorrow" on Monday 5th November 2018, 10.00 – 14.00. This group will be the main link between Halton organisations and people from other countries be they migrant, refugee or asylum seekers living in Halton. It will be both supporting them to live independently and to be able to integrate with the local community by providing them with different activities according to their needs and abilities...


Local Volunteer Coordinator with MitE

MitE is an ecumenical provider of workplace chaplaincy across the Merseyside region. The chaplains come alongside people in businesses, shopping centres and more, providing a friendly listening ear to people of all faiths and none. As an independent presence in the workplace, MitE's chaplains are ideally placed to provide a confidential and safe space to enable those they meet to flourish in their work life, wellbeing and spirituality. MitE is looking to appoint a part-time Local Volunteer Coordinator for St Helens and Warrington to work with volunteer chaplains from all denominations. The ideal person to join the team will be passionate about enabling people to be the best that they can be...


Vacancy For Taylor Park Volunteer Events Co-ordinator

The Friends of Taylor Park, a voluntary community group established in 2002, is looking for someone to co-ordinate / lead the group’s programme of family events in Taylor Park, St Helens.  The current incumbent is retiring from the role after 16 years but will still be involved in the group, probably as Honorary Secretary. He will be available to assist/ advise the new Appointee...


Daresbury Family Access Day - Coding, Computers and Robots!

Ever wanted to control a robot? Or design your own computer game? Or wondered how super computers can be used to predict the weather or even design shampoo? Would you like to try exciting hands on science activities and demos? You’re invited to explore and get involved at Daresbury Laboratory! Morning or afternoon tickets available for Wednesday 24th October 2018...


Change Grow Live - Volunteer Recruitment Event

Come along for to the CGL Volunteer recruitment event on Wednesday 24 October 2018 and find out about the work that CGL do and what volunteering Opportunities are available. Their goal is to help service users regain control, change direction of their lives, grow as a person and live life to their full potential . You will have the opportunity to meet lots of the team and chat about their roles...


Small Charity Fundraising Conference In Leeds

The Foundation for Social Improvement (FSI) are hosting their annual Northern Fundraising Conference for small charities 18th October in Leeds. You’ll have the opportunity to learn from a range of fundraising experts, all keen to share their best practice on various subjects, including Future Proofing Your Fundraising and Making your fundraising substainable. At just £15 for FSI members, places will fill up fast, so book today...


Knife Crime - Halton Community Reassurance & Engagement - Multi-Disciplinary Approach

Halton & St Helens VCA recently attended a meeting pulled together following the sad events in Runcorn. The aim is to identify what the community and community representatives can do individually and collectively to help tackle this issue, explore a multi agency community response to what is clearly becoming a significant issue for our communities and threatening the safety and wellbeing of young people in Halton. If you or your organisation can make a positive contribution to the work in Runcorn and would like to get involved in supporting community activities please get in touch with Sally Yeoman and we can pass your details onto those more connected to the work...


Free - Basic Drug And Alcohol Awareness Training

Basic Drug and alcohol awareness training available for Services and Community Groups across the St Helens Borough from CGL who are offering Brief Drug and Alcohol Awareness training...


Affordable Community Transport

Former Forces Support can provide a 17 seat minibus at affordable rates for hire to community groups, charities or sporting clubs. They are based in St Helens, Merseyside, however, organisations from all over the North West have hired their minibus in the past. Your Organisation could loan their safe and reliable 17 seat minibus. Available with a volunteer driver or for the lowest cost to your group, the minibus can be hired on a self-drive basis...


Strategic Meeting Updates

This new section contains updates about strategic meetings that our members have attended and kindly sent an update in to share around the sector. 

Third Sector Engagement Group - 13th September Update Report

St Helens and Halton CCG held a joint Third Sector Engagement Group meeting on Thursday 13 September at St Marie’s Church in Widnes. The agenda included an update on engagement opportunities, developments in health and focussed on the work and support the community and third sector could offer in relation to mental health services; engagement & developments for the new cancer hub and focus & support opportunities...

 

If you attend a strategic meeting in Halton or St Helens and would like to share an update about it to the sector, please email a short paragraph about the meeting to ldaffern@haltonsthelensvca.org.uk.  Previous Strategic Updates can be found https://www.haltonsthelensvca.org.uk/updates-halton-strategic-meetings


Don't Forget...

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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