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VSNW are pleased to share the publication of our latest reports: “1000 Voices: Cheshire & Merseyside”, and “1000 Voices: Lancashire and Cumbria” in collaboration wit...
1000 Community Voices Report: Community Experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic from the North WestCheshire & Merseyside Health Care Partnership (HCP) are seeking to secure a second Vice-Chair who will represent the voluntary sector and are seeking individuals from the VC...
Cheshire & Merseyside Health Care Partnership (HCP) are seeking to secure a second Vice-ChairConcerning new research has found that some people are unable to attend cancer-screening appointments due to working full–time....
VSNW joins forces with Answer Cancer to pledge paid leave for workers to attend screening appointmentsVSNW are currently undertaking a piece of work researching various types of “community levy” models. We are conscious that the term “community levy” is broad, however we...
Call for information and case studies on “Community Levy” modelsWe are pleased to announce that our VSNW’s Annual Conference & AGM will be taking place on Wednesday 23rd November 10am-4pm at The Midland Hotel, Morecambe....
VSNW’s Annual Conference & AGM – 2022Registration for The Fore’s Summer 2022 Funding Round will open on Tuesday 19th April 2022 at 10:00am. For this funding round, The Fore is offering unrestricted grants of up...
Registration for The Fore’s Funding Round – Summer 2022New academic summaries of the evidence on social prescribing, also released today, show that social prescribing can have a positive impact on a wide range of outcomes, including...
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Clean Air Plan Update – February 2022Ever messed-up? Yep, we have too.. we just don’t often talk about it. We are looking for people from the VCSE sector in Greater Manchester to share their experience of failure...
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Peter Pushes ForwardMadison E. Kerr opened the proceedings at the Festival of North West Thinking Conference 2021. An economist with Pro Bono Economics (PBE) she drew comparisons between her upbrin...
Madison Maintains MomentumVolunteering places are lower in July than they were in June – which, itself was only at 60% of prepandemic rate. Some areas are reporting a reduction in the number of volunte...
Cheshire and Warrington Survey FindingsThis NEBOSH seminar was attended by VSNW....
Event: COVID Impacts – sharing lessons learnt hosted by NEBOSHThe Charity Excellence Framework have developed an online toolkit based upon the Charity Commission guidance regarding how to excel at being a charity trustee....
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