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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…
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire VCSE Alliance and ICS update
Over the past year we have been working with colleagues across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire to develop a Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Provider Alliance. This Alliance will allow us to organise our sector collectively and at scale to be embedded in the newly formed Health & Care structures across our Integrated Care System (ICS).Work has progressed significantly to…
Meet new NCVS team member: Jess Allen
We're excited to introduce you to the newest member of the NCVS team. If you've contacted us recently, some of you may have spotted her name already.Welcome Jess!Jess writes:Hello, I’m Jess Allen, and I joined the NCVS team as Information & Administration Assistant at the end of October 2022. The past six weeks have flown by, and as I begin to meet more of you within Nottingham’s brilliant…
From Community Champion to Volunteer Coordinator
We interviewed our new colleague, Ebenezer, to learn about his volunteer journey and how he came to work with NCVSEbenezer first saw an article about the Community Champions Volunteer role with the Majority Black Led Churches (MBLC) project run by NCVS. He was particularly interested in the work the project was doing to engage with Black communities about Covid-19 vaccination misconceptions and…
Introducing Community Champions
Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) is working in partnership with the Nottingham City Council Public Health team and local NHS services to develop a team of Community Champions.Are you interested in a new volunteering opportunity or would you consider taking on additional volunteering to complement your current volunteer role?We are actively seeking volunteers to join a new network…
Nottingham Green Social Prescribing Programme to launch
Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) is playing a key role in a new two-year partnership project aimed at improving the mental wellbeing of communities hardest hit by coronavirus. The aim of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Green Social Prescribing Programme (NNGSPP) is to connect more people with nature and nature-based activities to improve their mental health and wellbeing…
'Walk tall and look the world right in the eye!'
A blog post about inclusive employment... We have sadly waved goodbye to our fantastic PA and Office Administrator Lucy Fisher, who has left NCVS to embark on a new chapter of her career. Before she left, Lucy, who has Cerebral Palsy, surprised us with a very moving blog post about her employment experience at NCVS and the ongoing support she has received with her disability. We are honoured to…
NCVS wins bid to take on Community Assets Assessment work
Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (NCVS) has been commissioned by the Nottinghamshire Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) which is working in partnership with the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), to undertake a joint strategic community assets assessment to build a comprehensive picture of assets in communities affected by serious violence. The focus of this project will be…
#BlackLivesMatter: A message
Jules Sebelin, NCVS Head of Business Development & Deputy CEO, writes... Although we have been busy the last few weeks with various campaigns to celebrate volunteers and charities (for Volunteers' Week and Small Charity Week) we have been closely following the global response to the #BlackLivesMatter movement catalysed by the callous murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis Police…
Celebrate Nottingham's community response to COVID-19
This June, we're launching a three-week campaign, spanning Volunteers' Week and Small Charity Week, to celebrate Nottingham's community response to the pandemic.Now more than ever, we feel it's vital to shine a spotlight on the volunteers, charities and community/voluntary groups who are doing incredible work to support the city's most vulnerable people during the coronavirus crisis. Ordinarily…
