E Bulletin S UPPORTING B LACKPOOL , W YRE & F YLDE 2014 F O R O V E R 7 5 YEARS VOLUME 2, ISSUE3 2 7 . 0 1 . 2 0 1 4
S P E C I A L P O I N T S O F INTEREST: CVS Updates Two funding stream elcome to the new edition of the CVS e-bulletin. We hope you find the articles information useful.
INSIDE THIS W ISSUE: Save the Date! The CVS are holding an Information Event on February 20th 2014 at St. John’s Church Wyre Together 2 Community Showcase in Blackpool and we would like to invite you to come along. There will be ten Blackpool Event based organisations waiting to share with you what they do in the community. This is also an Fuserna Foundation 2 excellent opportunity for networking and talking about your own organisation. If you wish to Grants Programme attend please contact us and we will give you more details. Age UK New Pilot 3 Advice Session Park View 4U 3 Simon Lawton will be holding another advice session on Wednesday 29th January here at the Workshops CVS offices. He will be advising you on matters such as funding, governance, or setting up. Blackpool Central 4 PACT Meetings Please give him a ring on 01253 624505 to book a slot.
The Zone - Wyre, 4 Social Media and Why It’s Important Winter Programme Thousands of charities in the UK are aware of social media, but aren’t sure what it can do for Coming up at Wyre’s 5 Theatres them. Even more are engaging with their audiences on social networks, but want to know how to develop and optimise their activities. LOVEmyBEACH 6 Photography If you are not sure if you want to be on social media please give us a call , we can help you Competition decide and if it’s for you, help you set up a Website, Facebook Page and Twitter account. We Shakespeare Festival 6 have very knowledgeable and enthusiastic volunteers ready and waiting to help. 2014
Fylde Mayor’s Charity 7 Gazette Articles Ball There’s still time to send us information about your organisation, for What's New at CSI? 7 publishing in the Gazette. You will get a half page spread in their Community Supplement under the heading of Community Group of the Blackpool Civic Trust 7 39th Annual Awards Week. We will also send the article to many other sources including our Evening and Dinner own E Bulletin. We are particularly focusing on Blackpool groups at the Tell Us and We moment. If you are interested please get in touch with Angela Glass, contact The Swallows Head and Will Tell 8 details below. Neck Cancer Charity Everyone Else
Streetlife Need Your 9 Help If you need help with websites or social media, we can help - just let us know UR Potential - 9 what you need and we’ll send you a volunteer! Urgent Request For further information on any of the above, phone us on 01253 624505 or e- mail on:- [email protected] To get the latest updates on what CVS is Don’t Forget... 9 up to, visit our website or our new updated Facebook page
Our Place Programme 10 Fund We are also on Twitter @cvsbwf P A G E 2 Wyre Together Community Showcase Event
Wyre Together will Any group (not for be holding their next profit organisation) Community Showcase providing services in Event on 9th April, Wyre is invited to 2pm - 5pm at The attend and the event Marine Hall in is free. Fleetwood. The purpose of the If you would like a event is to provide a table at the Showcase n e t w o r k i n g Event can you please opportunity for local let me know. More groups and also a detailed information chance to promote about the event will their work and be sent out nearer the services to the general Previous Showcase time public. Events Proved to be very Popular
Fuserna Foundation Grants Programme
Also support certain “unpopular” causes. Funding is restricted to charities with an income of less than £3 million per year. Fuserna Foundation Grants The level of grants awarded in the Programme (England & Wales) past have ranged from £1,000 – The Fuserna Foundation has Fuserna UK £6,500. announced that the next Organisations supported in the has made application closing date is the 31st grants of over March 2014. The Foundation past include: £4.8 (GBP) which operates both in the US and “CHICKS” a national children's England & Wales supports charity which received a grant of million since registered charities that: £6,500 to provide respite care to 8 its inception in Have difficulty raising funds due to young people. 2004. the lack of cash reserves, statutory City Hearts in Sheffield which funding or good contacts and received a grant of £3,000 to help patrons to assist them provide safe places for women Have projects that alleviate with serious life issues. poverty and financial hardship http://fusernafoundation.org/ Relieve sickness and poor health
E BULLETIN 2014 VOLUME 2, ISSUE3 P A G E 3 Age UK New Pilot Scheme
Chatterboxes individual to something that will Chatterboxes, so if you feel able Following a successful internal help address their loneliness or to work with potential clients pilot and thanks to the feelings of being socially over a brief intervention period support of Text Santa & Age isolated. This may take the form or know someone who would UK, Age UK Blackpool & of a social activity - such as like to help people over the age District now offer a joining a dancing group or of 50 who may be socially ’Chatterbox’ service which has attending a luncheon club, where isolated or lonely, please evolved from their previous they will be able to meet other contact them. befriending scheme. The people and create new Further information about the whole focus of the service is friendships. Chatterboxes can be found on to address social isolation and The basic trigger for a consented their website loneliness. referral would be that a client is http://www.ageuk.org.uk/ T h e o v e r a l l a i m o f aged 50 or over and is blackpool/our - s e r v i c e s / “experiencing social isolation and Chatterboxes is to use a chatterboxes/ series of ‘tools’ that will help loneliness” – they will then take
engage with clients who are it from there. lonely and/or socially isolated, They have so far had an 87.5% For more information or to aiming to improve their health success rate of moving people make a referral into the service and wellbeing via a supported on to some form of activity, please contact them either by pathway into some form of addressing their social isolation email at meaningful activity. and loneliness instantly. They [email protected] – Chatterboxes give them an also work closely with Age UK phone 01253 622812 or by opportunity to meet with Call in Time (Telefriending) & calling into their head office at referred individuals, offering Silver Line as other alternative 89 Abingdon Street, Blackpool, them up to 4 sessions. In this referral pathways for clients. FY1 1PP. time they will build a rapport They are also looking for
that will help signpost an v o l u n t e e r s t o s u p p o r t
Park View 4U Workshops
At Park View site, they will also look at Wildlife Watch Club 4U, they have the following topics: Community Health Walks spent the Community engagement The workshops are being past 10 years Playground design/ held on Wednesday 26th building an award winning 3 maintenance February, Tuesday 25th Generational Park, March and Tuesday 29th Community Consultation community centre and cafe. Fund raising April. The fee is £40 per They are now launching Sustainability person, including lunch. their ‘How we did it’ Promotion / Publicity To book a place, e-mail: workshops, inspiring any A Community Choir Community Food Growing [email protected] group or organisation to do Project or [email protected] the same. Youth projects As well as a tour of their Forest Schools Park Ranger activities P A G E 4
Blackpool Central PACT Meetings
Blackpool NHP teams would February 2014 at 7pm and the Blackpool Town Centre – like to inform you of up and first Wednesday of the month monthly PACT meetings have coming PACT meetings in thereafter. been replaced by PACT y o u r a r e a : - surgeries which are held usually Brunswick – meetings held at every other Tuesday, surgeries Claremont - Please note that Devonshire School at 7pm, are held on St Johns Square, the the venue and time for future there is no meeting in January, next surgery is 21st January PACT meetings has changed next meeting will be Thursday 2014 between 10 – 2. and will now be held at the 6th February 2014 at 7pm and C h i l d r e n C e n t r e o n the first Thursday of the If you wish to contact a Westminster Road, the time month thereafter. member of your NHP team, has been amended to 6pm, you can do so at next meeting 5th February at Tyldesley – meetings held at www.lancashire.police.uk, type 6pm and the meetings usually St John Vianney's School on in your post code and details of take place on the first Glastonbury Avenue (enter the NHP team contact details Wednesday in the month. using the main school will appear entrance) at 6pm Wednesday Talbot – meetings held are at next meeting tonight due to You can also visit Blackpool The Guards Club on Public Holiday (8th January Twitter page @BlackpoolPolice Whitegate Drive, there is no 2 0 1 4 ) an d t h e f ir s t meeting in January, next Wednesday of the month meeting Wednesday 5th t h e r e a f t e r
The Zone - Wyre, Winter Programme
This youth club is open to all young people with awareness week input - NHS disabilities aged 11-25 years old in the Monday 3 February - The Cuboid & Wii Zumba fit surrounding area. Various activities are on offer Zone's kitchen - snacky foods, creative arts session, for you to enjoy including console gaming, arts & shrinkies bingo night crafts, baking & cooking, a dance machine, table Monday 10 February - The Cuboid & Wii Zumba fit, tennis, pool & snooker and table zone's kitchen - chocolate fountain and fruit football. Alongside this they have a range of celebrating Valentine's Day, creative arts, cards & projects running and orgainsed trips throughout post-box baking, cookies, what is love debate board? the year. Monday 17 Half Term - TBC They have a great team of workers who are Monday 24 February - The Cuboid & Wii Zumba fit, there to offer information and advice. You zone's kitchen -toasties, pancake master class to will have the opportunity to meet other young celebrate Shrove Tuesday, creative arts people, hang out with your friends and make new Monday 3 March - The Cuboid & Wii Zumba fit, ones. zones kitchen - vegetarian dish to celebrate Refreshments are available from the tuck shop. vegetarian week, World Book week - your favourite book and why? Here's what's on during the next few months: Monday 10 March - The Cuboid & Wii Zumba fit, Monday 20 January - The Cuboid & Wii Zumba zones kitchen - pizza making, creative arts - ideas for fit Chinese New Year - The Horse, zone's the art board kitchen - Chinese food to celebrate Chinese Monday 17 March - The Cuboid & Wii Zumba fit, New Year, creative arts - lanterns, horoscopes & zone's kitchen - fairy cakes for Mother's Day, Chinese names creative arts - Mother's Day cards & gifts Monday 27 January - The Cuboid & Wii Zumba Monday 24 March - Sponsored fancy dress fun walk - fit, zone's kitchen - wraps, relationships - what to be discussed with the group and arranged makes a good and bad relationship, sexual health Come along and Join In!!! Go to http:// yps.lancashire.gov.uk/team-zone-wyre
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Coming up at Wyre’s Theatres
If you’re looking for great the glory days of Queen with Over at Thornton Little Theatre entertainment and things to do this leading tribute band The Bohemians the film club continues on Valen- year, don’t forget to check out on Sunday 20 April. Or why not take tine’s Day with a matinee showing what’s on at Wyre’s two great a step back into 1920s New York of Casablanca at 3pm followed by theatres, Marine Hall, Fleetwood City and through the doors of everyone’s romantic favourite and Thornton Little Theatre. Harlem's hottest nightclub, with Bridget Jones’s Diary at 7.30pm. Swinging at the Cotton Club on So, why not bring along your loved There’s a great line up at Marine Saturday 17 May featuring The Jiving one or gather a group of friends Hall with a mix of events and Lindy Hoppers & Harry Strutters for an alternative valentine’s night performances and first up is the Hot Rhythm Orchestra. out. In March there will be Fleetwood Beer Festival on showings of another two classics, Thursday 6 – Saturday 8 February. For children, award winning theatre The Wizard of Oz and Kes on Enjoy beers from around the world company Inspector Sands is bringing Sunday 9th with further films to be plus fruit beers, ciders, wines, live its delightful performance Rockpool a n n o u n c e d . music and great food. to Marine Hall on Friday 6 June, it’s perfect for kids aged 3 and over and There’s also a wonderful The venue is also hosting its first tickets include a sea creatures arts interactive performance for young ever Wedding Open Day Sunday 23 and craft workshop at Rossall Point children on Sunday 27 April, Three February. With plenty of local Observation Tower on the same Colours, which uses light, puppets, wedding suppliers showcasing day. Direct from CITV The Sooty music and dance to tickle the everything you need for your big Show is also coming to Fleetwood in imagination of the young. day it’s the perfect opportunity to a fabulous new show for the whole be inspired, meet the team and take family on Wednesday 30 July, with Blackpool band Troubadour and a tour of the venue. discounts for family tickets, this is a Genesis tribute band Mama are summer holiday treat not to be bringing live music to the venue on Great British rock band Toploader m i s s e d . Friday 2 May and Saturday 26 July are performing their top hits and respectively, plus Andrew Dee is new music on Saturday 1 March and The Fylde Coast Food and Drink set to return to Thornton with his will be supported by Preston born Festival returns again this year on amazing demonstration of singer/songwriter Mike Dignam - a Sunday August 17 with tasty treats Clairvoyance on Saturday 10 May. brilliant opportunity to see two and delicious drinks by producers great live music acts. from all over the region and the These are just some of this year's Fylde Folk Festival, now in its 42nd highlights, there’s plenty more to Kicking off on Friday 14 March, year, returns to Marine Hall once enjoy including many performances comedy is back with the Marine Hall more on Friday 29 to Sunday 31 by local amateur dramatics groups Comedy Club. Enjoy a hilarious A u g u s t . a n d b a n d s . night out with the best stand up around, with further comedy club Back by popular demand, Trio For full details be sure to nights taking place on 9 May and 11 Entertainment are pleased to check wyretheatres.co.uk or call July. Plus, one of Britain’s most announce that they will be bringing the box office on 01253 887693. talented and best loved comedians their fantastic pantomime back to Billy Pearce is gracing Fleetwood and this year’s magical
the stage with his live story will be Cinderella. Further tour on Saturday 26 details including an announcement A p r i l . about the cast are to follow but why not book early and grab the seats You can enjoy all The Manfreds’ you want. The panto will run from biggest hits on Saturday 22 March Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 including 5-4-3-2-1, Pretty Flamingo December and tickets are on sale and Do Wah Diddy Diddy, or if n o w . rock is more your thing, celebrate The Manfreds P A G E 6
LOVEmyBEACH Photography Competition
Do you LOVE a North West clean. Photos will be used to enjoying the beach but please beach? Can you capture it in inspire people to do what get their permission! Oh and a great photo? Perhaps you they can to help LOVE- you must have the water took a shot in the summer or myBEACH in the North West visible—even if the tide’s a long would be happy to go out on so please only enter if you’re way out! a sunny winter’s day and take happy for your photo to be Prize: Wild Arena membership some of people walking dogs used in that way. worth £100! or just enjoying the peace and Photos of North West Close: 9am Monday 3 February quiet? bathing water beaches only 2014 If so, please send them to please— a full list and them at LOVEmyBEACH so conditions of entry are on Please send us your name, they can share how wonderful t h e i r o u r w e b s i t e : when and where the photo was our beaches are! You might www.lovemybeach.org/ taken and let us know why you LOVE the beach. By emailing us even win a prize or see it on photocompetition your photo you give us our website! Photos will be judged by Guy per-mission to use it to LOVEmyBEACH is a campaign Farrow—worldwide fashion promote LOVEmyBEACH. with a huge challenge: to work and advertising photographer together to keep our local (www.guy-farrow.co.uk) on The winner will be announced beaches and bathing waters how well they capture people in February 2014. [email protected] Shakespeare Festival 2014
To mark the 450th virtually unparalleled and I feel from the Fylde Coast. anniversary of Shakespeare’s that a celebration of his life If you belong to a Fylde birth communities across the and works could be an Coast community group or Fylde Coast are coming enormously rewarding and are part of any local together to read and educational experience. organisation, school or perform his plays and poems I look forward to hearing from college or manage a venue in a variety of venues. This groups that want to get and would like to be first ever Fylde Coast involved and I would urge involved, find out more by Shakespeare Festival will take people to seize this contacting p l a c e o n opportunity to do something artsdevelop- 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th April special”. 2014 [email protected] The performances will be You can also download the The idea for the festival came open to the public, and free. It group application form to from Deputy Mayor of is hoped to raise funds take part. Blackpool Councillor David through donations and any Owen. received will benefit the “It is not in the stars Cllr Owen said: Mayor of Blackpool, Cllr Eddie to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” Collett’s nominated Charity, “William Shakespeare’s Snow Heights, an adventure impact on the English site near Windermere for language, our culture and the schools and young people culture of the wider world is
E BULLETIN 2014 VOLUME 2, ISSUE3 P A G E 7 Fylde Mayor’s Charity Ball What's New at CSI?
The Mayor of Fylde and her Consort CSI: Carer Support and Information, have Councillor Linda Nulty and Mr. Richard some new events coming up. Nulty request the pleasure of your From January 2014 our Coffee & Cake sessions will be held on the 2nd Monday company at the of each month, from 1.00 - 3.00pm at
Mayor’s Charity Ball Fleetwood Fire Station.
The Woodland Suite, Ribby Hall Their Time2gether lunches will be on the Village, Wrea Green 4th Thursday of each month except for January's which will be on 30th Jan due to Saturday 8th March 2014 the First Aid Course being run. 7.00pm for 7.30pm Email for further information at:
in aid of The Mayor of Fylde’s Charities [email protected] or Tickets £35.00 each apply here text 07935 751 228 Menu Details
Blackpool Civic Trust 39th Annual Awards Evening
The 39th annual Blackpool Civic Trust then the dinner at 8pm. Gerry Awards Ceremony will be held at the Wolstenholme will say a few words Blackpool Football Club Sponsors about the history and development of Lounge on Thursday 27th February the Football Club as Blackpool itself 2014. developed. The Blackpool Civic Trust Awards The ticket price is £30 each with celebrates Blackpool's best in the seating arranged in tables of ten. following categories Best New Build, (Tickets cannot be purchased on the Best Refurbishment, Open Space, night) Community, Nighttime Economy, plus For tickets please contact the many more. These awards have been Chairman on 01253 500881 or the independently judged and will be Social Secretary on 01253 391286 or announced and presented at the email the Hon. Secretary on Awards Dinner, compered by Radio Wave's Andy Mitchell. [email protected] The event will begin at 6:15pm with a drinks reception, followed by the awards presentation at 6.30pm and P A G E 8
The Swallows Head and Neck Cancer Charity
Chris Curtis is advice and raising w e b s i t e , chairman of The awareness both locally www.theswallows.org. Swallows, a head and and nationally. They uk neck cancer support also raise funds for The support group is group. Chris is a cancer items to help patients also fronting a survivor himself and and carers. campaign to get all knows first-hand just About 16, 000 people boys vaccinated against The how difficult it can be in the UK are HPV, a cancer-causing to live with the charity diagnosed with head virus. To support the condition. The charity run by and neck cancer every campaign, visit the was set up about a year the year. Chris has website and complete ago by diagnosed appeared on ITV’s This the online form. people it cancer patients. It is Morning, where he helps run by the patients The charity is looking d i s c u s s e d t h e themselves, along with for new members. symptoms of head and carers, family and They meet every 2nd neck cancer. More fr i ends so tha t Wednesday of the specifically Chris talked everyone understands month at the Imperial a b o u t h i s o w n what each other are Hotel, Promenade, experiences with the going through. Blackpool. Anyone condition and how affected by cancer is The charity gets its “the world fell apart” welcome. name from the difficulty when he was told he a lot of patients have had throat cancer. He For further details call with swallowing. “You stressed that he never 01253 425 078 or 24/7 will meet many good smoked and was not a 07504 725 059 or you people who are there heavy drinker. He said c a n e m a i l - to help and guide you he is proof the [email protected]. on the road,” Chris condition can strike uk
said. “They will find you anyone at any time. The Swallows chairman when you’re least The Blackpool-based C h r i s expecting it.” charity is releasing a C u r t i s , p a t r o n The group carries out a documentary in the near future. and for- W i d e r a n g e o f m e r activities, which include A trailer is available to P r e m i e r providing one-to-one watch on the group’s L e a g u e r e f e r e e
E BULLETIN 2014 Streetlife Need Your Help
Local charity Streetlife make an Food for Thought or to give something back to the amazing difference to the young community you will be welcomed homeless people in Blackpool. They Food for Thought campaign into the team. provide shelter, food and someone to launched in 2013 gives talk to about their problems. you the opportunity to cook a little Donate extra and bring it to the Shelter for They provide this support from The the young people and staff. All you Whether it is money, food or Base, their Buchanan Street centre, need to do to get involved is cook a clothing, they are always happy to and from The Shelter, next door to hot meal for 8 young people and 2 accept donations from members of St John’s church. workers and deliver it to The Shel- the community or local businesses. Their staff team is made up of a ter between 7 – 7.30pm ready to be Your donations help them to carry variety of staff including specialist served. out their work and to ensure that workers who can support young vulnerable young people in the local people with a range of issues. They Volunteer area have the support and items also have a budding team of they badly need. approximately 30 volunteers including They have various volunteering If you think that you can help in several who are gap year volunteers opportunities at Streetlife, some way please contact them on from overseas. all of which really do offer an 01253 294477 or go to their Their aim is to enable and empower interesting and rewarding website. young people to make informed experience. Training and support is choices about their situation and given by experienced members of issues affecting their lives. staff as well as the opportunity to Without the contributions you give achieve accredited awards. they would not be able to support Whether you are interested in young homeless people in Blackpool. volunteering to fill in your time, gain a new experience, a career change
UR Potential - Urgent Request Don’t Forget...
UR Potential has asked us to get If you wish to have a say on what future health this message out that they urgently services in Fylde and Wyre should look like, you require office dividers for this can attend the following focus groups: Wednesday 29th January. 29 January 2014, 3pm to 5pm, Fleetwood United If you think you can help please Reform Church Hall, Fleetwood contact Linda Markey on 01253 30 January 2014, 3pm to 5pm, Thornton Methodist 292299 Church, Cleveleys Or you can Email her 31 January 2014, 3pm to 5pm and 6pm to 8pm, at [email protected] St Annes-on-Sea United Reform Church Hall To book a place you can email [email protected], or call 01253 306305. Our Place Programme Fund
Locality and partners are now employment better for all. and top ten tips for success. accepting applications for the Our Place programme. Apply early - they are See their FAQs for the From the 20th January, expecting a large number of questions they've been t h e e l i g i b i l i t y applications so they responding to over recent checker and guidance recommend that you submit w e e k s . notes are on the My your application in good time. You can contact them through Community Rights website. the advice service if you Am I eligible? If you’re an have further questions. This £4.3m programme of incorporated body, parish or support and grants will help town council, public service When you’re ready to apply, areas working to transform provider or local authority in please contact them through local public services. England you will be able to t h e A p p l y Locality, the Local Government a p p l y page ofmycommunityrights.o Association and delivery r g . u k / o u r - p l a c e associates are supporting at There are plenty least 100 areas as they work of resources to help you with They look forward to helping towards making services in your application such as you make a difference in your their neighbourhoods such as the Starter Pack, insights area! adult social care, health or from the pilot organisations
We are a registered charity and work with groups and organisations in the Voluntary, Community and Faith sector helping to ensure Blackpol, Wyre & Fylde Blackpool Wyre and Fylde has thriving, strong Council for Voluntary Service communities providing opportunities to build capacity and enhance effectiveness of the sector. Registered Address Our website contains information about the projects that CVS run and our news pages provide 95 Abingdon Street updates on news items, events, funding, jobs etc. Blackpool We also have a community events diary FY1 1PP confirming all the upcoming events across the 3 districts. You can find out more about the history Phone: 01253 624505 of CVS as well as meeting the staff and trustees E-mail: [email protected] and there are also useful links to other local Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/ voluntary and community groups. We hope you cvsblackpoolwyreandfylde enjoy the site and find the information useful. Follow us on Twitter @cvsbwf
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