Parish Hall Secures £30k to Restore Community Archive Help with securing funding means that Kirkby Malham Parish hall are able to finish the refurbishment of their community building, saving a vital local asset and providing a home for an historical archive about the area. What was the challenge? The management committee was finding it hard […]
In this blog, we hear from Zach Ransome, Community Co-ordinator at CaVCA, about their role to empower volunteers by helping them gain skills, boost their confidence and inspire them to achieve their full potential. My name is Zach Ransome. I am autistic, chronically ill and non-binary and I feel empowered in my current role […]
In her blog for Volunteers’ Week, Hetty Nanor, Community Volunteering Project Officer at Hambleton Community Action, encourages us all to listen to our volunteers and ensure that we are supporting their individual needs. It is interesting to realise how various voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations are passionate about sourcing funding to promote equity […]
How to find volunteers and for volunteers to find you By Carole Roberts, Community Support Delivery Manager at Community First Yorkshire. Carole was previously Volunteer Coordinator at the National Trust, Huddersfield Mission and Love Bread CIC. Walking up to the Milton Rooms in Malton recently, we heard them before we saw them: a local brass […]
In celebration of Volunteers’ Week, we caught up with Debby Lennox, head of community operations at Dementia Forward. In this blog, Debby discusses her volunteering role at Dementia Forward’s Wellbeing Café and shares some of her monumental moments which surprised (and delighted!) her: Nine years ago, I started working two days a week for Dementia […]
Scarborough Dial a Ride volunteer driver, Jonathan K, shares his passion for getting behind the wheel and providing a real life line for communities: Over the last 40 years, I was fortunate to have had a busy and enjoyable international career in catering and hospitality, which had taken me and my family to several exciting […]
Jane Colthup, Chief Executive at Community First Yorkshire, shares her thoughts in the wake of our Ordinary Extraordinary Leaders conference on 22 May: What a day our first leadership conference was on Wednesday. It was inspirational, and at times emotional, and to be under the same roof as so many leaders was a real privilege. […]
Voluntary and community groups have met with York and North Yorkshire’s new Mayor, David Skaith. Community First Yorkshire hosted a roundtable event on Thursday (16 May), inviting the Mayor to meet more than a dozen local voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations. David Skaith, Mayor of York and North Yorkshire, said: “I want to […]
On 22 April, Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Collaborative brought representatives from the VCSE sector together, in Hull, for the first Humber and North Yorkshire VCSE Expo. The VCSE Collaborative welcomed Stephen Eames CBE, Chief Executive, and Amanda Bloor, Deputy Chief Executive, Humber and North Yorkshire […]
How to make the most of awareness days for your marketing strategy There are many awareness days and campaign weeks coming up that it’s useful for us all to be aware of – June is a particularly busy campaigning month! Awareness days and weeks can be a great way to fundraise, strengthen your reputation and […]