DEVELOP Enhancing Community Support - North Wiltshire News & Updates

 

 

Countdown to Grow...

Janice Fortune (Chief Officer, Develop) & Margaret West (Chief Officer, Voluntary Action Kennet) unveiled the new Wiltshire Voluntary Sector Support Service GROW at this week's Wiltshire Voluntary Sector Assembly. Grow will start from Apr 1! Each week we'll be telling you about some of the services we will be providing, this week it volunteering; Grow will be employing two Volunteering workers to provide the new volunteer service throughout Wiltshire, one worker will concentrate on supporting the organisations across the area, finding out what volunteering opportunities you have, providing best practice guidance and supporting you in the recruitment of your volunteers, the other worker will be focussed on promoting volunteering and your volunteering opportunities to the public, increasing the number of potential volunteers throughout Wiltshire. Find out more about the new service and see some photos here.

 

Wiltshire Voluntary Sector Assembly

‘Influencing for the Sector’ was the key theme of the Wiltshire Voluntary Sector Assembly which was held on Tuesday 2nd March at Warminster Assembly Rooms. It was an excellent day and over 90 delegates attended the event. The key speaker, Peter Couchman, CEO from the Plunkett Foundation, gave an enthralling and amusing speech about using your influence to inform key decisions. There were also workshops on this subject in the morning and on Communities of Interest in the afternoon. Look out for more information and outputs from the event and lots more on the Wiltshire Infrastructure Consortium website www.thewiltshireinfrastructureconsortium.org.uk

 

You are invited to attend An Introduction to Age Concern Wiltshire

Wednesday 17th March, 10:00am – 12:30pm, Cromwell Rooms, Station Road, Devizes, SN10 1BZ. This session is for Age Concern Wiltshire volunteers, staff, trustees and people from other organisations working with older people. It aims to give an overview of Age Concern Wiltshire’s services and activities and explore how we can work together to help older people. Places are limited to 16 attendees. If you have any special needs regarding access please contact us to discuss these in advance so that we can make sure that our accommodation is suitable for your needs. There is no charge for this course but donations towards our work with older people are always welcome.  Refreshments will be available from 9.45am. For any additional information please call Elliot Potter on 01380 727767. Click here to book a place.

Newsletter from Wootton Bassett & Cricklade Area Board and invitation to Health Workshop on March 24th

Age No Barrier Week

Are you part of a group, or an individual who would like to host an event to celebrate ‘Age No Barrier ‘week? Click here for more details.
 

What is the Wiltshire COMPACT??

The Compact is a set of principles within which the statutory and voluntary sector agree to work. These are laid out in the form of four Codes of Practice: Volunteering, Funding, Equality & Diversity and Communication. You can find out more about the COMPACT here.

 

Plumbing & Gas Work Volunteer

I've been approached by a man wishing to do some volunteering to support a local cause, for his day job he specialises in plumbing and wondered if there's any groups out there that might benefit from his skills? If your group is interested please contact me: beth@developecs.org.uk. It would be beneficial if you're already registered on our volunteering database.

 

Wiltshire Volunteer Fayre

DEVELOP & VAK are working with Wiltshire Council to organise a volunteer fayre on Monday June 7th in the Civic Hall, Trowbridge. This will be an opportunity for groups and organisations across Wiltshire that involve volunteers to have a stand and showcase for the work you do, and to publicise your group to potential volunteers. Please put the date in your diary and register your potential interest with us, we will be able to give out further information and a formal registration process abit nearer the time.

 

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