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Seeking VCS Representative for One Nottingham Board
The deadline for applications closed, 5pm on Monday 9 October 2023. One Nottingham is recruiting a Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Representative, together with up to three substitutes, to join the One Nottingham Board. The One Nottingham Board is the strategic partnership for Nottingham. It is a voluntary partnership and is made up of private, public, faith and voluntary and community…
What's in it for me?
Dave Thomas, Volunteering Development Officer at NCVS, writes occasional blogs, reflecting on practice development for Leaders of Volunteers. In this latest thought-piece, Dave attempts to answer his own question... Leaders of Volunteers will have heard me saying "What’s in it for me?" in training sessions, network meetings and, seemingly at random, in other conversations. It's not…
Nottingham & Notts first Social Prescribing Conference
On Thursday 29 June 2023, we opened the doors at Nottinghamshire County Football Ground for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire's first Social Prescribing Conference. Organised in partnership with Ruthe Sawyer, Project Manager for Social Prescribing and Community Development at NCVS, Nottingham & Nottinghamshire’s Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Nottingham City General Practice…
Volunteer training - a suggestion
Your volunteer training has a monetary value. Are you making the most of it? Whether a new volunteer joins you to make the tea for your group meeting or becomes one of your trustees, they will need some training. There probably isn’t a volunteer role anywhere that doesn’t need some initial training or induction. As Leaders of Volunteers, training is a very important part of our function that can…
Heritage Buddies: a new partnership for NCVS with Historic England
NCVS is working in partnership with Historic England to lead on a new Heritage Buddies Project. This is an innovative pilot project to test and trial an approach to delivering social prescribing and wellbeing through heritage in local settings, across Nottingham City.The project aims to help people appreciate the value of their local heritage and the local historic environment, experience how it…
Thank you for celebrating volunteering at Nottingham's Arboretum
The Volunteers' Week 2023 Celebration Event took place on Saturday 3 June in the Arboretum, where 30 organisations came together in the sunshine to celebrate together. It was a fine, but slightly chilly morning at 8am when the first Nottingham City Council and NCVS team members arrived to set up. The crew from the gazebo company were setting up the rows of stalls, the Portaloos were delivered…
Local mental health crisis support available
Have you heard of the Nottinghamshire Crisis Sanctuaries service? Launched in 2021, the vital service provides mental health crisis support to local communities across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Provided in partnership between local charities Nottinghamshire Mind, Turning Point and Framework, the Crisis Sanctuaries service is available in Nottingham City, Worksop, Mansfield and Beeston…
Race Health Inequalities Summit: taking the work forward
On Thursday 11 May 2023, we held our first Nottingham City Place-Based Partnership (PBP) Race Health Inequalities Summit. The event, led by Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS), brought together leaders from across Nottingham to discuss how race affects people’s health outcomes, the healthcare they receive, and what steps we can take as a partnership to address these…
Book your space at the Volunteers' Week Celebration
This event has taken place, you can read more about what happened here. A booking form is now available for the Volunteers' Week Celebration, Information and Promotion event taking place on Saturday 3 June 2023, 11am to 3pm in Nottingham's Arboretum. Please come along, and invite all your volunteers and colleagues to this event! This booking form (link downloads Word document) will not only save…
Help shape city's voluntary & community sector grant programme
Locality UK has been commissioned by Nottingham City Council to undertake research on their behalf, to explore new models and priorities for the City Council's grant programme for the voluntary and community sector. This research is taking place in partnership with Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) so that we reach as many local groups and organisations as possible, to hear your…