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| To unsubscribe from this Mailing or to opt out of all Halton and St Helens Voluntary and Community Action Mailings please use the links found at the bottom of the page. Welcome to the latest edition of the Halton & St Helens Voluntary and Community Action E-Bulletin... Coalfields Community Investment Programme Now Re-Opened The Coalfields Regeneration Trust is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the 5.5 million people living in Britain’s former mining communities. Many of these communities still require support due to the huge impact the closure of the mines had upon them. The Coalfields Community Investment Programme (England) is a £500,000 fund created to support activities that tackle some of the key challenges that still remain in coalfield communities. The fund is open to projects that deliver in the top 30% most deprived coalfield communities and that will make a positive difference... Free Training For People Living or Working in Halton The Mental Health and Wellbeing project from the Halton Health Improvement Team are offering free training for anyone who lives or works in the Halton borough to help improve mental health and tackle mental health stigma... Chain Lane Community Centre AGM Chain Lane Community Centre would like to invite you to their Annual General Meeting which they are holding on Tuesday 29th January, 6.00 pm at the Community Centre, Hinckley Road, St. Helens WA11 9HT... Stick ‘n’ Step - Trustee Recruitment Want to gain or use your management, decision making, leadership and team working skills? Want to get behind the scenes of a charity and be involved in shaping how it operates? Then the role of a Trustee with Stick ‘n’ Step is for you. Stick ‘n’ Step is a small but ambitious charity. They aim to enable, inspire and support children with cerebral palsy and their families. They achieve this by providing a programme of excellent conductive education, delivered from their specialised centres in Wallasey and Runcorn. They have been on an exciting journey to reach and support more families and are looking to strengthen the Board to ensure the organisation has the expertise and knowledge to support the charity’s recent and continuing growth... The NHS Long Term Plan – NAVCA Member Briefing Note Following publication of the NHS Long Term Plan, NAVCA have produced a member briefing note, outlining a summary of the document’s key priorities and how it’s significant for our sector... Sam's Diamonds Are Movin' On Up! Sam's Diamonds Cancer support have moved back to Widnes and are now based at our Widnes office! Their new phone number is 01928 592405. Sam's Diamonds support ladies with all different types of Cancer through a diagnosis and to move forward with their lives with a positive outlook. Founder Sam says " we are delighted to be in such a beautiful building, with some great people, we are very excited for the year ahead!" Sam's Diamonds have regular meet ups in local coffee shops and provide 24hr support on their private Facebook page. If you have had a cancer diagnosis and need to be surrounded by women who get how you are feeling, please get in touch with them... Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation Orders are civil injunctions that offer a legal means to protect and safeguard both victims of, and potential victims of these harmful practices. The process to obtain an order is very simple, and their effects can have a significant positive impact on the life of the person to be protected. This free event aims to raise awareness of the scope and effectiveness of the orders, along with a practical guide to applying, with the aim of encouraging professionals to always consider them in any safeguarding plans... Redeeming Our Communities Conversation One of the outcomes from the successful 'We Stand Together' Redeming Our Communities (ROC) event held in November 2017 was to have two follow up events, the result of which is that they have the following ROC Conversation (community engagement) events to be held this February: Come to meet with others from your local community including police and fire services, the local council, and faith-based groups to discuss ways of working together for the good of the community... NHS Halton CCG - Consultation on Urgent Care Centres NHS Halton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) intends to develop the two Urgent Care Centres (UCCs) in Halton into Urgent Treatment Centres (UTCs). This development will continue to provide the best possible treatment for our residents whilst making them sustainable for the future. They are looking for your views on the new model for the two Halton Urgent Treatment Centres and on the CCGs proposal to reduce the opening hours to 13 hours. A formal 8-week public consultation will commence on Monday 7th January 2019 and will conclude on Sunday 3rd March 2019... St Helens & District Group Diabetes UK Meeting The next meeting of the St Helens & District Group of Diabetes UK will be on Wednesday 6th February 2019, at 7.30pm in St Helens United Reformed Church, King Street, St Helens. WA10 2JZ. The speaker will be Professor Sarah O`Brien, who will be talking on the subject of reducing the risk of diabetes complications. Sarah is now the Clinical Accountable Officer of St Helens CCG. She will be explaining all about the risks that may develop because of diabetes, and how we can reduce those risks as much as possible... VCSFE's: Promote Your Services To The People Of Halton Are you a voluntary organisation or community group based in Halton and want to share information about your service directly to the people who need it most? Then Wellbeing Enterprises can help! Contact Katherine on 01928 589799 and find out how you could promote your service in all GP Practices across the borough today...
Improve Your Health And Wellbeing At The Living Well We all go through times in our lives when we are either too busy or lack the motivation to look after ourselves properly. Between work, taking care of kids or relatives, paying bills, making meals, and so many other responsibilities to juggle, it can seem almost impossible most days to fit in time to take care of yourself too. Willowbrook’s Holistic Support Services, based at The Living Well on Borough Road, St Helens, is offering a ten week programme of workshops and activities to help local people improve their health and wellbeing by enjoying some ‘me time’. Focusing on developing confidence, self-esteem and independence, the sessions are led by volunteers and take place every Tuesday - the next programme starting on 12 February, the following programme beginning 23 April... Young Carers Awareness Day 31st January 2019 is focusing on Mental Health and encouraging #CareForMeToo. Halton Carers Centre have organised an event at St Marie’s Church, Lugsdale Road Widnes, for Young Carers and their families to attend the Market Place of organisations that work with Young people across Halton. This will show case different hobbies, interests and social clubs that are available. There will also be an opportunity to meet The Young Carers Team and find out what activities and trips they have planned. The event is free of charge and will be starting 5pm-7pm... A vacancy has arisen within the service for an administrator. You will work as part of a small team of full time administrators and volunteers in ensuring that all of the administrative systems and processes required in running a busy substance misuse service are established and function efficiently. As well as taking part in reception and front line delivery duties as part of a wider team, you will be expected to provide day to day support to the recovery workers and managers. You will work on the production of a prescription generating process, as well as supporting the supply of goods services and utilities required in maintaining quality service delivery. You will have excellent engagement skills, be committed to high quality service provision and the active involvement of service users. You will have relevant qualifications, or experience... Open Access Playschemes February 2019 Halton Play Council's Open Access Playschemes will be starting Monday 11th to Thursday 14th February. It will start at 10AM-12.30PM and 1.30–4PM and will be £1 per session. Open Accsess Playschemes will be suitable for ages 5 to 12 years old. If you would like to join in or know someone who would you can find the playscheme at St Peter & Paul High School, Highfield Road, Widnes and Holy Spirit Primary Cotterill, Runcorn... Research shows that social Isolation and loneliness is harmful to your health. There are nine million lonely people in the UK and four million of those are older people. Loneliness is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time, associated with higher risks of mortality and morbidity. The good news is that people can ‘recover’ from loneliness. Community life, social connections and active citizenship are all key factors that can enhance a person’s wellbeing and reduce the feeling of loneliness. The purpose of the Halton Loneliness conference is to bring together people from across Halton including local residents, businesses, schools, housing providers, local police, community leads and health and social care organisations and the voluntary sector to discuss how we can tackle loneliness in Halton... Macmillan LGBT Cancer Programme Co-Ordinator Sahir House are recruiting a Macmillan LGBT Cancer Programme Co-ordinator for the Liverpool City Region (for one year initially). After a successful pilot project run between Macmillan Cancer Support and the LGBT Foundation in Manchester, Macmillan are now funding this post based in central Liverpool. The post holder will work with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people affected by cancer, their families, supporters, carers and clinicians... Halton Peoples Health Forums – February 2019 Halton Peoples Health Forum have two forums taking place next month, (Widnes: Thursday 7th February 2019. Runcorn: Wednesday 13th February 2019). The main topic of conversation at both forums will be the development of the Urgent Care Centres into Urgent Treatment Centres. The commissioners will explain about the additional services that will be provided and talk about the possibility of changing the opening times. They will also be discussing Care Navigation, and how it is progressing around the Halton Borough... Don't Forget... 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... Please feel free to forward this email onto any other organisations/individuals who you feel would be interested. Apologies if you receive this email more than once. If you have any comments you would like to tell us about this e-bulletin, please send an email to ldaffern@haltonsthelensvca.org.uk or if you have any news/events you would like us to publicise, please complete our News/Events webform: https://www.haltonsthelensvca.org.uk/vca-newsevents-template
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