This is our opportunity to present P3's revamped Personal Budget service drop in to the launch. Meet the teams, speak to our clients and find out more about the service provided.

If you would like any further information, email bewell@p3charity.org or call 01773 742051.

ACE has launched Developing your Creative Practice, a new £14.4m fund specifically designed to support independent creative practitioners. The programme is unlike any other current Arts Council fund, because it will give practitioners time to work on ambitious and innovative projects, without the immediate pressure of showing their work publicly. Recipients will be able to use the funding to support periods of research, to develop new work and ideas, work internationally, and for training, networking or mentoring.

£3.6 million will be available annually for four years for Developing your Creative Practice. Applicants will be able to apply for grants from £2, 000 to £10,000 from 12 April 2018.

www.artscouncil.org.uk/DYCP?mc_cid=acae8b6a99&mc_eid=4ee6605d92

As a governor you will:

• Represent the interests and views of local members
• Attend the Council of Governors meetings
• Act as an ambassador for the Trust
• Hold non-executive directors to account for the Trust’s performance.

You must be a member of Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and be over the age of 16. A governor information pack is available from the Communications & Involvement Office: call 01332 623723 or email membership@derbyshcft.nhs.uk

Alternatively you can request a nomination form from Ciara Norris at Electoral Reform Services on 020 8829 8456 or ciara.norris@electoralreform.co.uk

Nominations close on 19 April.

You can download the application forms and guidance notes from www.facebook.com/buxtonspringfair/

This half-day training seminar is suitable for anyone who wants to improve their understanding of the subject, and would be of particular interest to those whose work may bring them into contact with people at greater risk of suicide and self-harm. The seminars are free and available only to those living and working in Derbyshire. 

Seminar dates from April 2018 to June 2018 Seminars run from 9.30am to 1.00pm

Wednesday 18 April 2018 Belper

Monday 21 May 2018 Long Eaton

Tuesday 12 June 2018 Buxton

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buxton-suicide-awareness-training-tickets-43549570939

Genevieve [U] - Monday 14 May 2018

Viva Las Vegas [U] - Monday 18 June 2018

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers [U] - Monday 23 July 2018

Doors open 1pm. Films start 1.30pm. Finish 4pm. Cost £4 (incl. tea, coffee, biscuits, cake). Tea & cake. Fun activities, chat & reminiscence.

Patrons with dementia may bring one carer, family member or friend for free.

Tel: 07449 732322 Email: booking@matineederbyshire.org.uk

This event is wheelchair accessible. Spaces are limited, please book in advance. Call in advance if you have transport needs. Some financial support is available for individuals using local community transport schemes.

www.matineederbyshire.org.uk

A pilot group is planned, and then see where to go from there. Maybe a regular meeting for peer support, a drop in, several groups setting up around particular kinds of loss….. ? Sharing useful information and being there for each other? All ideas welcome. 

Wednesday 18 of April 1-3pm & Wednesday 2 of May 1-3pm at the Glossop Carriage Company  (Howard Street, Glossop)  

These meetings are for people with bereavement issues and will be safe, confidential, friendly and welcoming. Feel free to come to one or both meetings as we will hopefully planning ongoing sessions.  

Please join us if you have suffered a recent bereavement and are struggling to find local support, if you were bereaved sometime ago and feel a bit stuck or still feel the need for some support from others like you. Please also join us if you feel you have managed to come through and are able and ready to help others.

For more information contact Liz (HPCVS) 01663 736426, or Debbie (GCC / Co-op) 01457 852059. You can just turn up to the meetings if you prefer and please feel free to bring somebody along if that’s helpful too.  

Lloyds Bank Foundation will be opening their Invest grants round once more on 8 April. 

The Lloyds Bank Foundation invests in charities supporting people to break out of disadvantage at critical points in their lives, and promote practical approaches to lasting change. To apply you need to be registered as a Charity or a CIO and have income between £25,000 and £1 million in your previous accounts.

Support can be provided through our two grants programmes Enable and Invest, along with an optional support programme (Enhance) for successful applicants. These programmes demonstrate the Foundation’s ongoing commitment to support charities that have the greatest impact upon the lives of disadvantaged people and their communities.

INVEST 

The Invest programme is a flexible, long term core funding programme for organisations delivering clear, targeted outcomes for disadvantaged people. These are typically around £25k p.a. with the potential to fund for up to six years. This programme is open for applications between 9 April & 18 May 2018 with grants being made in November 2018. 

ENABLE 

A grants programme for organisations that have identified clear development needs in areas such as governance, planning, evidencing need, monitoring, communications, pilot work etc. Grants of up to £15k are available for you to develop your organisation. A rolling programme, apply anytime;

All grantees will be eligible for additional support through our ENHANCE programme –providing an option of tailored in-kind support to strengthen and develop charities. If you are successful in applying for an Enable or Invest grant, we will work with you to identify whether support under the Enhance programme is right for you.

How to apply

There is an online application process and encourage applicants to find further information on the programmes and strategy at:

www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk

It is always wise to have an informal chat first. If you wish to do so then please contact Gary Beharrell at  gbeharrell@lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk or phone 07734 973060

Derbyshire County Council are offering a variety of free courses to people who have mental health issues or who are experiencing emotional or psychological distress.  The courses are designed to support wellbeing and recovery by supporting people to engage in interesting, fun and new activities in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. 

The following courses are running in April:

An Introduction to Dry Stone Walling – Chinley Park, Starts Monday 23rd April 1pm – 4pm (4 weeks)

Spring into Life Allotment Group – Glossop Community Allotments, Starts Tuesday 24th April 10am – 1pm (4 weeks)

3D Felting – Glossop Adult Education Centre, Starts Friday 27th April 12.30pm – 2.30pm (6 weeks)

Time to Relax (Mindfulness, breathing exercises and stress reduction) – Fairfield Adult Education Centre, Buxton, Starts Monday 30th April 12.30pm – 2.30pm (6 weeks)

If you would like more information, please email Rachel.harman@derbyshire.gov.uk or leave a message at the New Mills Adult Education Centre on 01629 535020/535019

If your charity or voluntary organisation is seeking to raise funds or you just want to increase your profile, then book a stall at 2018 Rotary Club of Buxton Summer Fair & Charity Bazaar. 

The 2017 ‘Celebrating Summer’ Fair was a great success, attracting close to a thousand visitors. For 2018, the fair is back in the Octagon, Pavilion Gardens.

Stall bookings charge is as last year: £20 for the first table, £10 for an additional table. Pay by selling the equivalent amount of our 50p raffle tickets or by straight payment. Selling raffle tickets helps publicise the Fair, and if you buy them, you have a chance of winning £100, £50 or other great prizes.

Stalls are allocated on a first come first served basis with Charities/Voluntary Organisations having priority.  The stall best illustrating the ‘Celebrating Summer’ theme as judged by the Mayor, will receive £50.

Booking details www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=678945&ClubID=272

This course is run to support the Thriving Communities Project in Gamesley.

This training is full day and covers alcohol awareness, health risks, addiction, referral pathways and brief introductions and is perfect for anyone working within the field of health, social care, support and employment. There are also a limited number of spaces for volunteers who are active within their community.

To book go to www.daas.uk.com/training or email ross@daas.uk.com

Programme to include music by J.S. Bach, Malcolm Arnold and Karl Jenkins Performed by Hallé Brass. Tickets: £14.

www.springbankarts.org.uk/events/1st-coffee-concert-featuring-members-of-the-halle/

Befriending Champions Microgrants are for projects or activities anywhere in Derbyshire (excluding Derby City) that help people to be less lonely and isolated.  Projects might include, for example, setting up or developing a good neighbour initiative, a social group, befriending or other activities that bring adults of any age together to reduce social isolation.  Successful applicants will be expected to attend (or have attended) a one-day Befriending Champion training session.  Grants of up to £1,000 are available.  

For this final round of Befriending Champions Microgrant funding we will prioritise funding for projects or activities in Derbyshire Dales, Erewash and Bolsover as those areas have had fewer grants.  

sdcvs.org.uk/community/funding-advice

Is your charity ready for the changes? 

Check whether any of your existing trustees and senior managers will become disqualified under the new rules. If so, they will need to cease having that role or apply to the Charity Commission for a waiver if they want to be allowed to continue;

Make sure you have processes in place to check whether a person is disqualified, before appointing them to a trustee or senior manager role, and periodically to check that individuals in these roles have not become disqualified.

What is changing?

Under existing law, there already are a number of circumstances which automatically disqualify a person from being a trustee of a charity, including bankruptcy and unspent convictions for dishonesty and deception and disqualification from being a company director. For as long as the condition applies, an individual is disqualified unless the Charity Commission gives them a waiver. Acting in the position while disqualified is normally a criminal offence.

From 1 August 2018:- 

• The list of circumstances which mean someone is automatically disqualified from being a charity trustee* will be extended. The new list of reasons for disqualification includes unspent convictions for bribery, terrorism and money laundering, misconduct in public office, perjury or perverting the course of justice and certain other circumstances such as being on the sex offenders register; 
• A person disqualified from being charity trustee will also be automatically disqualified from being a senior manager** in a charity. The definition of senior manager** covers (paid or unpaid) roles which have (i) responsibility for overall management of the charity (so chief executive/director or equivalent role), and; (ii) overall control over finance (chief finance officer/finance director or equivalent).  

Individuals who are not currently disqualified, but who will be affected after 1 August (either because of the new triggering circumstances or because they are a senior manager), can apply to the Charity Commission for a waiver from disqualification. They can do this in advance from 1 February 2018.

The automatic disqualification rules do not disqualify people from all involvement with charities. There are other ways in which a disqualified person can be involved with charities, such employment in appropriate non-senior manager positions, volunteering, or in advisory roles.

More information

Read more in this longer article on NCVO’s knowhownonprofit website: knowhownonprofit.org/governance/improving-your-governance-practice/trustee-recruitment-and-induction/trustee-disqualification

Detailed guidance for charities from the Charity Commission on the new rules - and what charities need to know, consider and do – can be found at: www.gov.uk/guidance/automatic-disqualification-rule-changes-guidance-for-charities

Guidance for individuals can be found at: www.gov.uk/guidance/automatic-disqualification-rules-for-charity-trustees-and-charity-senior-positions

* A full list of the reasons for disqualification can be found here
** Specific guidance on what constitutes a senior manager can be found here

Tameside Council, Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust are committed to working in partnership with the public, stakeholders, partners and organisations in the voluntary, community and faith sectors.

The Partnership Engagement Network enables everyone to play an active role in developing the approaches that we take in the delivery and commissioning of services.

The next Partnership Engagement Network Conference will cover:

• Presentations from key speakers, including the first joint Engagement and Consultation Strategy for Tameside and Glossop
• Workshops on specific local programmes and developments

Wednesday 28 February 2018 9.15am – 1.45pm Jubilee Hall, Dukinfield Town Hall, King St, Dukinfield, SK16 4LA

Lunch will be provided at 12.45pm.

Book in advance - spaces are initially limited to two per organisation. Register by 14 Februar, at which point they will start to allocate any remaining places. You can book a place via the following link:

partnership-engagement-network-conference.eventbrite.co.uk

If you would like to request to book additional places, send details to deborah.roberts@tgh.nhs.uk to be added your details to a waiting list.

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Spiltmilk Dance will be doing their performance called The Little Love Cabaret. This is a great event and one Spring Bank Arts are excited to be hosting. The event is helped organised by Live and Local.

www.springbankarts.org.uk

Swim for half-an-hour and raise money for your cause or charity and ours!

FREE Team Entry (4 members). You keep half the sponsorship you raise for your cause/charity, the other half goes to the Rotary Club Charitable Trust Fund to help build Sand Dams in South-east Kenya to provide clean water and other local benefits.

Entry, sponsorship, and parent consent forms (for those under 18 on 10 March) can be downloaded via the link below, where there is more information, or obtained by contacting organiser Rotarian David Hopkins (t: 01298 23359; djhvet@aol.com) or by collecting them from Buxton Podiatry Practice, 1 A Hall Bank, Buxton. Entry and parent consent forms need to be with David Hopkins by 3 March. If your cause is not a charity, still use the sponsorship form and encourage your sponsors to Gift Aid as the Rotary Club can claim Gift Aid on our half-share.

www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=684138&ClubID=272

Information on:

• Mental Health Together website launch
• STOP! I have a learning disability campaign
• Action Taken to Improve Care for Patients with Substance Misuse Needs
• Helping Shape the Future of Recovery and Wellbeing Services

healthwatchderbyshire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MP2960-January-March-2018-Newsletter.pdf

There will be a number of speakers and demonstrations covering topics such as food fortification, the new texture modified food descriptors, finger foods etc.  It will be open to all - Managers, catering staff, volunteers and carers.  

Free event to learn more about the plans the Self-Care Alliance has for the coming months and how you can be involved to improve the health outcomes for the people of Tameside and Glossop.  Refreshments provided.

For more information contact Rachel Lord/Dawn Acton on Tel: 0161 339 2345, Email: rachel.lord@actiontogether.org.uk / dawn.acton@actiontogether.org.uk

The training session is designed to equip staff and volunteers working in local third sector organisations to access, understand and apply a range of freely available public data sources to support business development activities. The session will reveal how organisations can freely access a range of data sources that illustrate health and wellbeing trends affecting communities across England.

Derby on 7 March 2018

The main aims of the support is to help people to:

§  Maintain their independence

§  Develop daily living skills and life skills

§  Manage personal finances

§  Improve mental health and wellbeing

§  Reduce isolation

They will be holding launch events across Derbyshire in April and you are invited!  

In the meantime, they are happy to attend team meetings to discuss with your staff how this service can be of benefit to your clients.

If you would like to know more about this service contact jane.bellamy@pcharity.org or jen.thornton@p3charity.org

Have you suffered a recent bereavement or found it hard to come to terms with the loss of a loved one from years ago?  

In a safe, confidential and supportive meeting, we would like to hear your views on what local community support or service would help, what’s missing at the moment and what solutions could we come up with together?

Maybe you have some support that’s working and you could share your experience, or perhaps you feel unsupported right now and want to come together to see what might work for you. If you feel you have coped with your bereavement, perhaps you are in a position to share with others how you managed.

Please note this first meeting is not a support group (as yet anyway) but this is certainly one of the possibilities we would like to talk about. 

Professional providers of related or useful services are welcome to contact Liz at High Peak CVS for news on the progress on this initiative, but please note this initial meeting is for potential service users.

You can just turn up to the meeting if you prefer and feel free to bring somebody along if that’s helpful too.    

For more information contact Liz 01663 736426.

Do your front line staff and volunteers know how to recognise and deal with a Carbon Monoxide (CO) incident in the home of a vulnerable person they are supporting?  Does your organisation include CO awareness as part of its duty of care to your staff and volunteers?

The Gas Safe Charity is running a free, interactive half day workshop (10am - 1.00pm with lunch) to help organisations in your area become more aware of the sources, signs and symptoms of Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning, understand what to do if you suspect CO may be present and learn of resources that can help you raise awareness.

The closest areas the workshops are running are Chesterfield on the 28 February and Birmingham on the 7 March.

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As usual the whole of the town centre will be filled with stalls, music and dancing, entertainment and activities of all kinds.

A new group of people has stepped forward who will work with Buxton Town Team to organise this year's Spring Fair and set up a new Buxton Spring Fair organisation to run the event in the long term.

Applications for stall space and performance times will open in mid February. If you want to contact the organising team email buxtonspringfair2@gmail.com or call Jane on 07976 006822.

Tel : 01298 214379 for more info.

www.derbys-fire.gov.uk/have-your-say/

Come along to find out what Derbyshire Law Centre can do for you and the people you support. They provide a range of free specialist legal services and one-to-one support for individuals. They can help people that you support on housing issues, homelessness, debts, rights in work….and much more.

Lunch and refreshments will be available

Every town or village will get an opportunity for a shopping trip, once a week, to local shops or a supermarket. And the good news is that these trips are now free for all Derbyshire Gold Card holders.

This new service will cover trips to shopping destinations in the Derbyshire Dales, High Peak and South Derbyshire district and borough council areas. They will be run by Ashbourne Community Transport on behalf of Derbyshire County Council. Derbyshire Connect services replace Dial-a-Bus (DAB) services previously provided by Derbyshire’s various community transport schemes.

The new Derbyshire Connect services will initially run in the same way as the old-style DAB services. They will run door-to-door picking passengers up from home and dropping them off at an agreed shopping location, advised at the time of booking. Volunteer passenger assistants can be provided if you let us know in advance, for passengers needing a bit more help.

To celebrate the first ever Village Halls Week, Rural Action Derbyshire is holding two Networking Events: 

Baslow Village Hall on Tuesday 23 Jan (11.00am to 2.00pm) 

Dalbury Lees Village Hall on Wednesday 24  Jan (11.00am to 2.00pm)

Come along and meet with your colleagues and friends to find out what is happening in the world of village halls. Whether you are a long-standing trustee, a new or potentially new committee member, a local authority or just curious about village halls, then please do come along and join us.         

You will be able to learn more about the services RAD offer, share good practice, identify common concerns, identify your training needs and tell RAD how they can better support you in the future. It is free to attend and will give you the opportunity to discuss issues affecting your hall with others facing similar experiences.

You will also hear about the new GDPR Data Protection legislation, coming into force in May 2018 and how this will affect your organisation and the ‘Digital Village Hall’.

To book your place/s, email Helena Stubbs at H.Stubbs@Ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk or phone 01629 592970 or 01629 592973 and say which event you wish to attend.  It is essential you book your place for catering purposes; light refreshments provided.

Afternoon Matinee and Evening. Doors open 2pm for 2.30pm programme and 7.00 pm for 7.30pm programme

• January 19 - Dunkirk
• February 16 – Victoria and Abdul
• March 16 – Hampstead
• April 20 – Murder on the Orient Express
• May 18– Film Stars don't Die in Liverpool

Refreshments Interval, Accessible toilets, hearing loop. Everyone welcome. No entrance charge, but suggested donation of £3.00 or £2.50 for concessions to help towards future funding of the project.

www.furnessclub.co.uk/furness-films

Your own project or to support knitting for charity.  A chance to develop a hobby and perhaps make new friends.  Don't worry if you can't knit or crochet they will teach you, or just come for a natter.

Tea, coffee, scones and toasted teacakes will be available from the cafe

Support Staffordshire is working in partnership with the People’s Postcode Lottery and Staffordshire Council of Voluntary Youth Organisations (SCVYS) to bring you this free funding event which includes the opportunity to

• Find out about what the People’s Postcode Lottery and other funders have on offer
• Gain an overview of a range of funding options
• Discuss your funding needs one-to-one with individual funders
• Learn the top tips on choosing the right funding for your activities and what makes a good funding application
• Attend a workshop on making good grant applications, particularly to the Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioners Fund

Funders who have so far agreed to attend include the People’s Postcode Lottery, BBC Children in Need, Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Staffordshire Community Foundation, Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s Fund and the South West Peak Landscape Partnership Community Fund.

The Funding Fair will run from 1pm – 7pm, but if you can’t make the whole day you are welcome to just come for part of it. Light refreshments will be available.

The event is free but booking is essential. To register your interest in attending, receive updates on the funders attending, details of the programme for the day, and instructions on how to book your one-to-one appointments with funders go to www.supportstaffordshire.org.uk/events/funding-fair-leek 

For further information please contact Esther Jones in Support Staffordshire’s Leek office via esther.jones@supportstaffordshire.org.uk or 01538 381356.

Every year the Foundation works alongside Rolls-Royce to develop a grant theme, responding to local needs, topics and concerns. For 2018 the theme will be:

Children and the Great Outdoors

Supporting child mental & physical health in our most disadvantaged communities

Last year the Foundation Derbyshire Rolls-Royce Fund selected the theme of Mental Health and Young People. This allowed them to award three local charities who went on to offer direct counselling services to over 125 children and young people. 

This 2018 theme builds on that work by taking a step back and looking at part of the prevention agenda, using some of the simplest, effective ways to build up mental health resilience in children throughout Derby and Derbyshire.

The Fund will harness the power of existing charities, community groups and voluntary groups already working with disadvantaged and vulnerable families. The Fund will offer an investment for projects, which will educate around the importance of green exercise and outdoor play and foster a love of the great outdoors.

A fund of £10,000 has been set aside to fund projects here in Derby and Derbyshire that can make a positive impact on local lives.

www.foundationderbyshire.org/funds/rolls-royce-fund-2015/

Contents:

• Double win for COGS
• Update from G52
• Happy New Year from HEADStogether
• Glossop Men’s Gang
• Visually Impaired Groups
• Glossop Blind Social Club
• Tameside and Glossop Care Together Grants
• 5 Ways to Wellbeing Grant

The Money House is open to anyone in Derbyshire aged 17-24 preparing to move from residential/foster care or from supported accommodation to fully independent living within the next 3 months or who have recently secured their first tenancy. 

The project aims to increase financial confidence by taking part in a range of fun, interactive tasks that replicate some of the financial choices and decisions needed to maintain a tenancy and remain debt free. Learning happens through a process of practical activity, discussion, reiteration and repetition.

The non-residential programme takes place over 4 days in a real life flat in Chesterfield and covers the basics of budgeting, bills, banking, borrowing, benefits and bureaucracy through informal learning, interactive games and discussions. Learners can also achieve two AQA Awards at Entry Level.

Contact Claire on 07960 584141 or Gail on 07738 107072 or visit www.ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk/the-money-house for details, dates and referral documents 

In order to do this there will be a temporary pause on the submission of Reaching Communities applications between Monday 15 January and Monday 2 April. All applications received before 15 January will be processed in the existing manner.

If your current grant is coming to an end soon and you are working on an application for continuation funding, or if you have any other questions contact the Big Advice team: Email general.enquiries@biglotteryfund.org.uk or phone 0345 4 10 20 30

To set the atmosphere there will be free 'Glow Sticks' and a facepainter coming with 'Glow in the Dark' paints. Facepainting prices ranging between £1, £2 and £3 for anything really elaborate. 

Members have put together the music and have learned how to use DJ software and equipment. Matt Berry (DJ Racoon) will be lead DJ on the night.

Free entry - no need to book or have a ticket.

Event link: facebook.com/events/173928886529003/

The office closes at 1pm on Fri 22 Dec and reopens on Tue 2 Jan 2018

NewsBank can be used for free in the library or from home. All that is needed is a Derbyshire library card number.

From January, users can read more than 850 titles from across the United Kingdom, as well as 25 local newspapers and more than 3,000 international newspapers.

Newspapers back the service and supply the information to NewsBank. The content is mostly text from the previous day's edition.

www.derbyshire.gov.uk/...

Compassionate Communities Derbyshire aims to encourage people and communities to talk about death, dying, bereavement and loss, to allow people to share their preferences and wishes about the future and to support each other in practical and emotional ways.

Project coordinator Jane Butler explains, ‘Many people face the end of their lives unprepared emotionally, practically, financially and legally, and this can add a huge strain to the person concerned and their families. Making a difficult time even more difficult, not only at the time of the death, but in the months and years to come. It can have far reaching impact across health and social care, voluntary, community and faith groups, and mental health services too. I think as a society we’ve lost confidence in talking about and dealing with death and dying, this project will show that it isn’t a taboo subject, but is part of who we, our families and communities are, and should be talked about and planned for as much as a new arrival into the family.

As well as helping individuals to plan for the end of their lives, we will be encouraging and sharing the many things communities are doing to help them. We’ll be holding public events to give people the chance to talk about death openly and to find out about ways in which funeral rites can be truly individual.   As well as working with health and social care professionals, we’ll be supporting employers to adopt best practice for their employees and promote the Dying to Work Charter. 

For further information, contact Jane - Jane.butler@ageukdd.org.uk  www.ageuk.org.uk/derbyandderbyshire   Mobile 07421227078

At First Steps main office in Derby City Centre, £99 per person.

Training dates in 2018 include: 24 February, 19 May, 8 September.

For more information or to book a place on a workshop contact Sarah at First Steps, sarah@firststepsderbyshire.co.uk, 01332 367571.

firststepsderbyshire.co.uk

The project commenced on 13 October, but referrals are still welcome from anywhere in the High Peak.  

The sessions are every Friday from 10am to 4.30pm and run from Oct 2017 – Sept 2018.  Lunch and transport are provided. 

Activities include: gardening, animal care, fencing, dry stone walling, conservation, guided walks and survival skills, Workshops include mindfulness and stress control, nutrition, cooking and arts and crafts.

For referrals or further information contact Kev or Chris at Beardwood Farm, Furnees Vale, High Peak SK23 7QF. Tel: 01663 749038 Mob: 07793 982648, Email: beardwoodnlp@gmail.com

Facebook: Beardwood Natural living project/community

Join together with colleagues and take part in the 2018 Active Workplace Challenge by adding activity into and around your working day.

Kick off the New Year by getting involved with a new campaign set to tackle inactivity in the workplace. From 8 January to 4 March sign up to the Workplace Challenge, track physical activity online and compare it to other individuals and organisations.

The focus will be on bitesize chunks of activity, encouraging workers to step away from their desks during the lightest and brightest part of the day - helping to improve physical and mental wellbeing including improving symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).    

www.workplacechallenge.org.uk/derbyshire/

Mike had been on our Board for 13 years and was one of the longer serving Trustees.  He was Chair for a year and Vice Chair for 5 years, in fact he retired from the Board only last month.  Mike was also on our Small Groups Advisory Committee for 2 years and helped the Small Groups Project Co-ordinator with groups in the Hayfield Area for over 10 years.

Mike was such a lovely, kind, caring, helpful, generous man and he entertained us with his jokes, the Board meetings aren’t going to be the same without him.

Mike was involved with quite a few groups in the local Voluntary Sector and we are sure that he will be missed by many people and groups in the area. 

Mike was very hard working and always willing to help with anything that needed doing, he had a vast knowledge, expertise and was a wealth of information.

Our thoughts are with his family at this very sad time.

Established to celebrate and support ambitious charities working in the fields of Youth, Welfare and Community, Pilotlight and the Garfield Weston Foundation are looking for charities who would like mentoring and coaching support to get their organisation to the next stage in its development.

This year the Awards are expanding to support 20 charities across the North East, the North West, Yorkshire, the Midlands and, for the first time, Wales.  Winners will receive £6,500 unrestricted grant funding alongside business mentoring support from award-winning charity Pilotlight. 

westoncharityawards.org/about-the-awards/how-to-apply/  or call us on 020 7283 7022. 

Deadline for applications: Friday 12 January 2018.

Join us earlier at 6.30 on Norfolk Square for a candlelit vigil to commemorate the two women a week killed by abuse in the home.

Tickets £10 including all food, mulled wine and Christmas craft activities.

Tickets: www.crossroadsderbyshire.org/christmas OR Bay Tree Books

Derbyshire Law Centre employs a team of solicitors and advisers who prevent evictions and homelessness; assist people who are experiencing problems with debts, rent or mortgage arrears and serious disrepairs in their rented properties. 

They also advise people on their problems at work such as unpaid  wages including holiday and sick pay, redundancies, dismissals and discrimination.

The Law Centre works tirelessly in supporting people to manage their money better and become work ready as well as on how to get their social care needs met so that they can live independently in their own homes. 

derbyshirelawcentre.org.uk

Call for advice - Freephone 0800 707 6990

The survey will help Neighbourhood Watch to signpost people to the right place. Your responses are completely anonymous.  

www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NWN-DV-Survey

Meeting on Monday 18 December at  Community Room, Buxton Fire Station - In view of the growing number of people diagnosed with dementia, High Peak Diabetic Self Help are pleased to welcome Kathryn Rogers who will present the latest dietary information, which, with exercise, are found to assist delay the development of dementia. 

Sat 25 November 10.00am-4.00pm at First Steps main office in Derby City Centre, £99 per person.

Training dates in 2018 include: 24 February, 19 May, 8 September.

For more information or to book a place on a workshop contact Sarah at First Steps, sarah@firststepsderbyshire.co.uk, 01332 367571.

firststepsderbyshire.co.uk

Do you access mental health services in Derby or Derbyshire or care for someone who does?

Mental Health Together (MHT) is about involving mental health service receivers and carers in the health and social; care services they access and ensuring they are given a greater voice in how they are run and changed.

They need your involvement, views and experiences to make sure that services are joined up, co-ordinated, efficient and of high quality and work in the best possible way for those who use them

Refreshments and cakes will be provided

For further Information contact Kath Dawson at Mental Health Together on Tel: 01773 880786 or 01773 742051 (P3 Amber Trust) email: kath.dawson@healthwatchderbyshire.co.uk

This year’s event is extra special with a performance from a trio of players from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. The players will perform a repertoire put together especially for this event. Over light refreshments afterwards, there will be an opportunity for you to meet and chat with the players after their performance.

If you are coming, it would assist the caterer if you could confirm your attendance via phone or email at glenn@highpeakarts.org. Alternatively, you are welcome to just turn up on the night.

Drop in for a chat and piece of cake - The Bureau, Howard Town House, High Street East, Glossop, SK13 8DA.  By sharing your views you can make a difference about services such as dentists, doctors, care homes and hospitals..

Action Together are leading on the development of the Self Care Alliance in Tameside and Glossop, as part of Care Together, the programme working to transform the way we meet health and care needs. The Self Care Alliance is very important to help us to work together on this, helping us to harness the full breadth of skills, experience and resources, not just from within the statutory sector but also the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Sector and within people’s homes, families and communities.   It will also provide a key route for strategic partnership and so it is important that any groups, organisations or agencies who have a role in improving the health and wellbeing outcomes for people in Tameside and Glossop help us to shape this work.

The focus of the meeting will be what does ‘Self Care’ mean, to develop ideas about what the Alliance should look like, key themes and how to shape the Alliance into something tangible and practical. If you would like to book a place or require any further information, please contact Rachel.lord@actiontogether.org.uk   

www.actiontogether.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1655

All items are donated on the understanding that they will be re-used or disposed of responsibly if they aren't used. 

B&Q also works with Community Repaint, a network of schemes that collects any surplus, re-usable paint and redistributes it within their communities to individuals and families on low income, charities and community groups.

For more information contact your local store directly and speak to a duty manager.

www.diy.com/corporate/community/waste-donation/

content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKDCC/bulletins/1c07bc4

Thursday 30 November – Shirebrook Childrens’ Centre – 10am till 4pm

Friday 1 December  - Gamesley Childrens’ Centre, Glossop – 9.30 – 3.30pm

This training is full day and covers alcohol awareness, health risks, addiction, referral pathways and brief introductions and is perfect for anyone working within the field of health, social care, support and employment. There are also a limited number of spaces for volunteers who are active within their community.

The courses are to support the Thriving Community Project but is open to anyone working within the communities is able to book on directly by going to;

Shirebrook - alcohol-advice.co.uk/training/alcohol-awareness-brief-interventions-for-shirebrook/

Gamesley - alcohol-advice.co.uk/training/alcohol-awareness-brief-interventions-for-cotmanhay/

They want to win funding so that we can produce a booklet of Wartime Evacuee Poetry.

You can vote at community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/project/view/17-423
the project is called THE POETRY OF WARTIME EVACUATION

Voting ends on 21 November

More information...

Cost £4 (incl. tea, coffee, biscuits, cake)

Patrons with dementia may bring one carer, family member or friend for free.

Tea & cake. Fun activities, chat & reminiscence.

Tel: 07449 732322 Email: booking@matineederbyshire.org.uk

This event is wheelchair accessible. Spaces are limited, please book in advance.

Call in advance if you have transport needs. Some financial support is available for individuals using local community transport schemes.

www.matineederbyshire.org.uk

Thursday 2 Nov 10am-12.30pm at New Mills Adult Education Centre. 

Tel 01629 533386.

Tuesday 7 Nov 12.45-2.45pm at Fairfield Adult Education Centre in Buxton. 

Tel 01629 533386.

Mondays 27 Nov to 18 Dec 1.30-4.30pm at Fairfield Adult Education Centre in Buxton. 

Tel 01629 533386.

Free to current One East Midlands and EMVY members (one free place per organisation), £35 to non-members.

www.oneeastmidlands.org.uk/node/5697

All profit goes to Meningitis Now, from purchases of the 908g (2lb), serves eight, light, sweet, luxuriously delicious Ultimate Christmas Pudding - price still only £10.

If you want  to do good with your Christmas pudding purchase this year, then please post or deliver your order for a 2017 Appeal Christmas Pudding to Buxton Podiatry Practice, 1A The Savoy, Hall Bank, Buxton, SK17 6EW by 28 October latest. Make cheques payable to ‘Rotary Club of Buxton’ and include your telephone number and email and postal addresses.

Puddings will be delivered to Buxton, Dove Holes, Chapel-en-le-Frith and Earl Sterndale addresses by early December; arrangements will be made with those outside these areas to collect their orders. There is a full list of ingredients (and order form if you wish) at www.buxtonrotaryishere.co.uk .Allergens: contains egg, wheat, nuts, soya; may contain mustard; may also contain fragments of shell or kernel or small stones. 

Contact details: rotarypuds@gmail.com,  t: 01298 26406 

Staff will be on hand to show off a variety of exotic animals. Teas, coffees and cakes will be on sale, and there is the chance to win some lovely prizes.

Funds raised for much needed dog beds, food and equipment will go straight to Windyways.

The Jungle is at Staden Business Park, Buxton (over the bridge from B&Q) 

As part of the project, Derbyshire County Council funded the setting up of a food hub in Chesterfield that distributes surplus food to community projects such as community kitchens and food banks. 

The hub is run by FareShare East Midlands, a charity that works to reduce food waste and food inequality. FareShare now needs volunteer drivers to help meet the growing demand for the hub’s services during Christmas and New Year.

At least six drivers are needed to work at the depot and recruits will need to be able to work flexible hours, delivering food to outlets located in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire out of the FareShare’s hub in Chesterfield.

Anyone interested in becoming a FareShare volunteer can contact Alyson at the Chesterfield depot on  0116 2867735.

HPCVS Annual Report 2017 - 15 Years of Empowering Communities

• Message from the Chair, Joy Brown
• Message from the General Manager, Nigel Caldwell
• How we help groups
• Finances

AGM 2017 Members Letter

AGM 2017 Agenda

Annual Accounts 2017

AGM 2016 Minutes

They need individuals who will bring enthusiasm, vision and commitment. They are keen to recruit people with a wide variety of skills and a diversity of experiences.  

For more information and an application pack, or an informal discussion on the role of trustee, contact: Kelly Jones, Executive Administrator Email: Kelly.jones@ddcab.org.uk Telephone: 01629 832365 

Closing date for applications:  9.00am, Thursday 9 November
Interviews will be held:  Thursday 23 November

The next annual large grant round is open for applications between the 1 October and 30 November 2017. Applications are invited from non-statutory organisations (voluntary, community groups and local non-profit making organisations) for any amount between £2,501 to £25,000 to fund local projects which help to deliver the Commissioner’s Police and Crime Plan priorities.

The next round of small grant applications closes on 1 November 2017. Applications are invited for amounts up to £2,500. There are 3 opportunities to apply for a small grant per year.

Application forms, guidance, the full Police and Crime Plan and deadline dates can be found on the Commissioner’s website in the Grants section:

www.derbyshire-pcc.gov.uk/Finance-and-Grants/Grants/Crime-Prevention-Grants.aspx

Sat 25 November 10.00am-4.00pm at First Steps main office in Derby City Centre, £99 per person

For more information or to book a place on a workshop contact Sarah at First Steps, sarah@firststepsderbyshire.co.uk, 01332 367571.

firststepsderbyshire.co.uk

The Annual General Meeting will be held on Mon 20 November. .

On Mon 18 December, Kathryn Rogers of Fork Provoking will return to talk to a wider audience. Nutrients which may help to prevent Dementia will be the topic, 

All meetings are held at the Community Room, Buxton Fire Station at 7.00pm. Everyone is welcome. All talks are free and individuals can talk in confidence if they are experiencing difficulties. Leaflets and information are available at each session. The group is Affiliated to Diabetes UK, and welcomes anyone who has an interest in diabetes, even if they themselves do not have the condition.

The action plan covers a range of transport modes including: Aviation, Rail, Buses and Taxis

The document also considers ways to improve public space to make it more accessible for people with disabilities.

The consultation closes at 11:45pm on 15 November 2017.

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-transport-accessibility-action-plan

The information will be collected anonymously and shared with those responsible for running dementia services, so that they know what works well and what doesn’t.

More...

This half-day training seminar is suitable for anyone who wants to improve their understanding of the subject, and would be of particular interest to those whose work may bring them into contact with people at greater risk of suicide and self-harm.

More...

www.ndva.org.uk

Coiled Basketry Taster Day - Tues. 2 Nov 10-2.30
Make small objects using materials of your choice

Weaving - A free 6 week course starting 4 October - Wednesdays 1-3 pm.
Learn the basic techniques of weaving using a hand loom

To book or request more information contact 01629 533386

12pm Lunch
12.30pm Business

Followed by a short talk by Furniture Poverty specialist Helen Middleton. 

www.glossopdalefurnitureproject.co.uk

The AGM will be combined with a Networking Event for local voluntary and community groups and statutory partners, where you can meet other local organisations, and promote your own organisation and its services.

ddcvs.org.uk

Come and "enjoy" finding out about some of the outrageous medical diagnoses and treatments in the fourteenth century... complete with demonstrations you won't forget!

Friday 27 October from 2.30 – 4.00pm at Hayfield Library

Tue 10 October  10 - 14Peak Edge Hotel, Chesterfield

Wed 29 November10 - 14Makeney Hall, Belper

www.southernderbyshireccg.nhs.uk/news-events/news-articles-2017/carers-listening-events/

• Have a go at the fruit and veg picture quiz - you could win a smoothie maker!
• 10-12 Poetry ‘lucky dip’
• 10-12.30 Colouring for relaxation for adults
• 10.30-12.30 Needle Felting workshop (contact us to pre-book)
• 12.30-3.30 Aromatherapy hand massages
• 1.00-3.00 Iris folding craft
• 1.30-3.30 Have a look at Ancestry, Picture the Past and other online resources with help from staff
• Get useful information and advice from the organisations in the information market place
• Blood pressure readings available
• Refreshments on offer all day!

All for FREE!  This event is open to everyone - why not pop in and enjoy free activities to make you feel good!

For more info ask staff or contact Buxton Library on 01629 533460

Carousel - Monday 30 October 2017

White Christmas - Monday 18 December 2017

Pavilion Arts Centre, St. John's Road, Buxton SK17 6BE
Cost £4 (incl. tea, coffee, biscuits, cake)

Patrons with dementia may bring one carer, family member or friend for free.

Doors open 1pm. Films start 1.30pm. Finish 4pm.

Tea and cake. Fun activities, chat and reminiscence.

Tel: 07449 732322   Email: booking@matineederbyshire.org.uk

This event is wheelchair accessible. Spaces are limited, book in advance. Call in advance if you have transport needs. Some financial support is available for individuals using local community transport schemes.

www.matineederbyshire.org.uk

The course is also available and proven beneficial for carers of someone living with a long term condition.  The course is designed to help participants cope with their health condition and improve their quality of life.

LWLTC is a free 6-week course that can help a person to take more control of their health by learning new skills and strategies to manage their condition on a daily basis. The course focuses on what a person can do, rather than what they can’t.  Each session is one day a week and lasts two and a half hours. Refreshments are provided.

Topics covered include:

• Dealing with symptoms like pain and tiredness
• Coping with depression or feeling low
• Relaxation techniques
• Physical activity
• Healthy eating
• Communicating with family, friends and health professionals
• Planning for the future
• Setting realistic goals and pacing yourself

The course is run by two trained tutors who themselves live with long-term conditions. They can give practical advice based on their own life experiences.

www.citizensadvicesouthderbyshireandcity.org/living-with-long-term-health-conditions

The training covers webcam sex tourism, online grooming, sexting, sexual bullying and harassment online and so-called ‘revenge porn’. 

There are still limited places on this course in Manchester on 10 October at £126 + VAT.

safeandsoundgroup.org.uk/course/exploring-responding-to-digital-sexual-violence/

The event,is staged by COLOURS on Thursday 21 September 7 for 7.30pm. Ladies will be able to 'try before they buy' the new range of clothes, which are all by well known High Street names.

Tickets cost £7 and the counterfoil is also a free raffle ticket.

sigbi.org/buxton-and-district/

Are you 16 - 30?  Looking for work?  Meet new people and learn new skills as well as gaining work experience. We’ll also help you with your CV.  Not only will it boost your confidence and employability, but you’ll also have the chance to benefit from the support of one our mentors to help you uncover your next steps. 

30 October – 8 December 2017, Chesterfield Royal Hospital

Taster Day 13 October 2017

* All training provided and a guaranteed interview for entry level jobs at the end of the programme

*  Travel expenses paid on programme

*  Doesn't affect your benefits

*  Boost employability skills and gain a nationally recognised care certificate

*  Up to 6 months mentoring support

www.princes-trust.org.uk
E mail rosemary.reeschilds@princes-trust.org.uk
Call or Text  to 07436 797253
Call for free on 0800 842 842

FareShare Foodcloud connects your charity or community group to a local Tesco store so that you can access the surplus food they have left at the end of each day, for free! FareShare FoodCloud is designed to be as simple as possible for you so works via text message. On an allocated evening of the week, Tesco will let you know what surplus food is available. All you then need to do is text back to confirm you’d like the food and Tesco will get it ready for you to collect. 

More...

www.charityfilmawards.com

Closes on 30 Sep

Guest Speaker – Sarah Stainthorpe from Foundation Derbyshire.  She will give a brief talk about Foundation Derbyshire and the grants available at the moment. There will be an opportunity, after the AGM, to speak to both Sarah and Liz Fletcher about the suitability of the grants available for your group.  

If you are interested in attending our AGM contact Jackie jackie@highpeakcvs.org.uk 

More information...

www.friendsagainstscams.org.uk

The Derbyshire Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse Service will be holding their AGM on Thursday 28 September  12.00pm - 2.00pm, at St Thomas Church in Brampton, Chesterfield. Lunch will be provided.

For more information please contact brittany.liszka@ddvsas.org.uk

Guest Speaker – Sarah Stainthorpe from Foundation Derbyshire.  She will give a brief talk about Foundation Derbyshire and the grants available at the moment. There will be an opportunity, after the AGM, to speak to both Sarah and Liz Fletcher about the suitability of the grants available for your group.  

If you are interested in attending our AGM contact Jackie jackie@highpeakcvs.org.uk 

Aims of the Training:

• To gain a greater understanding of different Eating Disorder types, including signs, symptoms and possible causes
• To gain a greater understanding of what recovery means with regards to Eating Disorders
• To gain an insight into support tools used with Eating Disorder clients

Training is delivered at the main office in Derby City Centre. All First Steps training courses are delivered by expert trainers specialising in eating disorder management. Training is ideal for qualified counsellors and therapists. First Steps Derbyshire can also provide support materials in formats to suit all forms of learning styles.

Confirmed dates for 2017 are: 30 September and 25 November (First Steps Volunteers only)

Workshops will run from 10.00am-4.00pm with time allowed for coffee breaks and lunch [not included] and cost £99 per person

For more information or to book a place on a workshop please contact Natalie at First Steps, natalie@firststepsderbyshire.co.uk, visit the website www.firststepsderbyshire.co.uk or contact First Steps on 01332 367571.

1940, London, the Blitz; with the country’s morale at stake, Catrin (Gemma Arterton) an untried screenwriter, and a makeshift cast and crew, work under fire to make a film to lift the nation’s flagging spirits; and inspire America to join the war. Partnered alongside fellow screenwriter, Buckley (Sam Claflin}; the pair set off to make a film that will warm the hearts of the nation and capture the imagination of the American population.

Afternoon Matinee - doors open at 2pm; Film Run including prefilm items from 2.30pm.  Interval with hot drinks, ice creams fresh fruit and confectionery sales.  Suggested admission contribution £2 per adult 

Evening Showing - doors open at 7pm.  Pre-film Item 7.30pm, Main film approx 8pm. Interval with hot drinks, ice creams, chocolate, fresh fruit etc.  Suggested Entrance contribution £3.00 adult £2.50 concessions.  Bar open throughout in the evening. 

Hearing Loop area.   Full accessible areas and toilets.  Tel : 01663 744764

furnessclub.co.uk/Furness-Films.html

• Preventing Suicide
• Funding
• Events
• Resources
• News

www.derby.anglican.org/en/publications/find-newsletter.html

• Class 1 ..... Best any variety puppy (under 12 months)
• Class 2 ..... Best any variety dog (1 – 6 years old)
• Class 3a ... Best veteran dog (7  - 10years)
• Class 3b ... Best vintage dog (11+ years)
• Class 4 ..... Most obedient dog any age              
• Class 5 ..... Dog with the waggiest tail
• Class 6 ..... Scruffiest Pooch
• Class 7 ..... Best dressed Pooch – Fancy Dress
• Class 8 ..... Dog that looks most like its owner 
• Class 9 ..... Dog judge would most like to take home.   Free
• Class 10 ... Best in Show (open to all class winners) Free

Rosettes for 1st – 3rd placings.

To Enter – see Susanne at Info tent on field by 2.30pm at the latest.  You will be given a number and a list of the classes you have entered.  Children under 11 to be accompanied by adult (over 18).  Show to start at 4pm (approx) and will be announced over PA.  Poo bags/bin and water bowls provided.  Entry at owner’s risk. 

Please return all entrant numbers to judge/steward.  Contact 01663 744764

Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent), divorced and retired, leads a reclusive and relatively quiet life. One day, he learns that the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica (Freya Mavor), left in her will a diary kept by his best friend who dated Veronica after she and Tony parted ways. Tony’s quest to recover the diary, now in the possession of an older but equally as mysterious Veronica (Charlotte Rampling), forces him to revisit his flawed recollections of his friends and of his younger self. As he digs deeper into his past, it all starts to come back; the first love, the broken heart, the deceit, the regrets, the guilt... Can Tony bear to face the truth and take responsibility for the devastating consequences of actions he took so long ago?

Afternoon Matinee - doors open at 2pm; Film Run including prefilm items from 2.30pm.  Interval with hot drinks, ice creams fresh fruit and confectionery sales.  Suggested admission contribution £2 per adult 

Evening Showing - doors open at 7pm.  Pre-film Item 7.30pm, Main film approx 8pm. Interval with hot drinks, ice creams, chocolate, fresh fruit etc.  Suggested Entrance contribution £3.00 adult £2.50 concessions.  Bar open throughout in the evening. 

Hearing Loop area.   Full accessible areas and toilets.  Tel : 01663 744764

furnessclub.co.uk/Furness-Films.html

If you'd like to get online, set up an email address or type a letter, we can help on our computers.  If you have a laptop or tablet you would like some help with bring it along!  And all over a nice cuppa too!

This is a free and informal event. For more information ask at the library or call 01629 533195

Wonders of the Peak − a journey through time and place − houses the museum's collection of 1,200 Peak District artefacts collected over 125 years. The Wonders of the Peak website  allows people to explore the collection digitally while visiting the Peak District, or from the comfort of their own home, or the library, using their smartphone, tablet or computer.

More than 75 volunteers were instrumental in the project. Their contribution included testing the digital content, collecting oral histories, laying out new displays and conserving and documenting artefacts.

The Aviva Community Fund offers you the chance to get funding from £1,000 up to £25,000 for an important cause in your community.

All you have to do is enter a project for your community organisation – even if you took part previously – and tell us what a difference these much-needed funds could make.

www.aviva.co.uk/good-thinking/community-fund/

They also want to go out on sensory stimulating local trips to enhance social inclusion, challenge perceived limitations and raise confidence and independence.  

Voting is open in Tesco stores throughout September and October. Customers will cast their vote using a token given to them at the check-out in store each time they shop at Glossop, Hyde, Stalybridge, Denton, Hattersley, Ashton, Hadfield.. 

Funding is available to community groups and charities looking to fund local projects that bring benefits to communities. Anyone can nominate a project and organisations can apply online. To find out more visit www.tesco.com/bagsofhelp

The information and data gathered from this survey will, in turn, inform the commissioning of services to support those affected by hate crime and allow Derbyshire Police to do what they can to encourage people to report hate crime.

www.derbyshire-pcc.gov.uk/HateCrime

DCC website

We should be advancing and making sure everyone has equal opportunities to be independent. This would not only benefit those who need extra support but families with pushchairs and those reliant on other forms of help like a walking frame.

It should be easy for everyone to get around, no matter who you are!  Please sign and support this petition to create wheelchair friendly routes available on Google Maps.  

www.change.org/p/google-maps-create-wheelchair-friendly-routes

Chris made a significant contribution to local groups within the High Peak including High Peak CVS. Chris had the unique ability to get to the nub of an issue, cut through to what is important and succinctly lay out the way forward. He was always dedicated, responsive, supportive and jovial. When he passed away, the High Peak voluntary sector lost one of its strongest advocates and supporters.

Through this award, High Peak CVS wants to celebrate and commemorate not only Chris’s contribution, but also his insight into the potential of voluntary activity for personal and community growth.  

The award will offer local groups the opportunity to raise their profile and gain recognition for the work they do. Our key assessment criteria will be around acknowledging your achievements and progress. Examples of the types of changes we are looking for maybe around revitalising your group, attracting new members, attracting new funding, developing a new project and or making a significant impact in your local community.  

Please note well will give priority to voluntary led community groups making a local impact with limited resources. 

You can apply on behalf of your group, you can be nominated by or nominate another group. A small panel will make the decision. 

High Peak CVS will present the Award, a commemorative plaque, framed certificate and cheque for £100 for the group, at its Annual General Meeting in October. The Award is open to all groups, however small or large, newly formed or long established and we encourage everyone to apply.  There is a simple application form which groups are asked to complete and return to: Jackie Donnelly, High Peak CVS, Dunbar House, 105 Buxton Road, Whaley Bridge, High Peak SK23 7HX 

Email:  jackie@highpeakcvs.org.uk Tel: 01663 736436

Closing date for applications is Friday 20 October 2017

This opportunity is available and suitable to anyone in receipt of state benefits, over 19 who has either UK or European Citizenship, but is also open to citizens outside the UK and Europe with Home Office Documentation. 

Attendees could also be reimbursed for travel up to £15 a week and food can be included. Local transport may be available within a 10 mile radius of the farm. General support is included at the Farm and 1:1 care is also available provided by the Community Care Farm’s fully qualified and trained staff team or clients can bring along their own support if they wish to do so. 

Attendees will also gain vocational accredited training in maths, English and there are opportunities to do further accredited and recognised training in woodwork ,health and safety and animal care. This fantastic opportunity will not have an impact on any benefit claims and is a great chance to come mix with peers, have lots of fun and gain qualifications, ALL for FREE.

chesterfieldcommunitycarefarm.co.uk

12 September  -  Working with High Risk Drinkers

19 September  -  Alcohol Awareness and Brief  Interventions.

26 September  -  Working with Families Affected by Substance Misuse

10 October       -  Substance Misuse and Brief Interventions 

17 October       -  Alcohol Awareness and Brief Interventions 

These courses are FREE to people working with individuals and communities in Derbyshire and are based In Chesterfield - Derbyshire Alcohol Advice Service, First Floor, Dents Chambers, 81 New Square.

Tel: 01246 206514    Email: training@daas.uk.com

To book.visit www.alcohol-advice.co.uk/training/

It is a great place to spend a couple of hours helping keep a much needed local facility PO, shop and cafe open in the village. At times they struggle with staffing due to holidays, family commitments, hospital appointments etc, and need a few people they can call on in times of need, maybe just for an isolated shifts or even half a shift.  The shop is open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons 1.30 - 4.30pm.

Contact susanne.lomas@gmail.com if you are interested.

Their role would be to facilitate communication, to ensure that the interview procedure is conducted fairly, that the vulnerable person understands what is happening at the police station, and that their rights are met. They would NOT be providing legal advice.

Volunteers would have a choice of attending St. Mary's Wharf, Chesterfield and Buxton Police Stations to perform this role.

If you would like to know more about this interesting volunteering opportunity contact Debbie Washington on 07483 973675 

www.charityfilmawards.com

The conference is aimed at anyone with an interest in health and greenspace, those working in local authorities, CCGs, primary care, social care, NHS providers, the voluntary sector, health development workers, children’s services, schools, outdoor educators, planners, etc

Flyer

The project is :

• Developing a cycle tourism toolkit for businesses
• Developing a local Cyclists Welcome accreditation
• Launching a £150k small grants scheme to enable businesses to offer good quality experiences
• Delivering workshops and events to enable businesses to understand the cycling market and to maximise benefits 
• Promoting cycle loops and itineraries for residents and visitors around the four cluster areas 

So if you are a local business with less than 250 employees who could be interested in applying for a grant to boost your business please contact Carol Parsons, Pedal Peak Business Officer carol.parsons@peakdistrict.gov.uk 01629 816297

6 week course Thursday's 14, 21, 28 September, 5, 12, 19 October 2017 10.00 - 12.00 at Amber Trust, 1a hardwick Mount, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6PP

Contact Tracy Litchfield on 01773 742051 or email Tracy.litchfield@ambertrust.co.uk

NCVO’s Know How Non Profit website has a helpful list of the policies and procedures that you need, or should consider having.

knowhownonprofit.org/people/employment-law-and-hr/law-and-hr-basics/policies

These include a Small Charities Counter Fraud Checklist and a Small Charities Guide to Preventing Fraud.

A good proactive approach is putting in place the right counter-fraud measures to minimise the risk of fraud occurring in the first place.

smallcharityfinance.org.uk/resources/

Every organisation that processes personal data must be compliant with the new GDPR and this includes charities and voluntary organisations.

Getting to grips with GDPR can be daunting and it can be difficult to know where to start so NCVO has written a 12 point plan for voluntary organisations and charities, adapted from the Information Commissioners Officer guidance.  

knowhownonprofit.org/how-to/how-to-prepare-for-gdpr-and-data-protection-reform 

They want you to read this and give your views and comments on what is in it. You can do this online at

www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/have_your_say/

Hear about Healthwatch Derbyshire work with people who have learning disabilities, their family carers and professionals.

RSVP by 22 Sep to Tel: 01773 880786, Email: tammi@healthwatchderbyshire.co.uk

Break down the barriers and stigma surrounding mental health!  Express how you feel, your experiences and how you feel you have been treated.

Prizes will be awarded for the top 3 entries at a presentation event at the Swadlincote Hub on Thursday 17 August from 10 - 1pm

Closing date for entry is 3pm on Thursday 10 August 17

Post entries to P3, 12 Hill Street, Swadlincote, Derbyshire DE11 8HL or Email: lucy.mole@p3charity.org

The latest issue of the Institute of Mental Health newsletter is out now on their  website at www.institutemh.org.uk/images/IMH_newsletter_Aug_2017_v1.0.pdf

Celebrations kick off with an Inaugural football match at 10.30am. Furness Vets v Whaley Vets!

Then from 12 noon enjoy

• Live Music with popular local bands
• BBQ, Tea Stall and Bar
• Dog Show from 4pm
• Children’s entertainment including

Fairground rides, face painting, Mr Bubbles, Mosaic trail, organised games and, not least, a beautiful yurt where they can explore their creativity

The field is now drained, and landscaped with paths, flowerbeds, picnic tables, outdoor gym equipment, and a wild-flower meadow.

It was created in 2002 to celebrate the anniversary of The Queen's coronation. It is the MBE for volunteer groups.

qavs.direct.gov.uk

Afternoon Matinee and Evening. Doors open 2pm for 2.30pm programme and 7.00 pm for 7.30pm programme

• August 18 – Time of their lives
• September 15 – The Sense of an Ending
• October 20 – Their Finest
• November 17 – Churchill
• December 15 – My Cousin Rachel

Refreshments Interval, Accessible toilets, hearing loop. Everyone welcome. No entrance charge, but suggested donation of £3.00 or £2.50 for concessions to help towards future funding of the project.

furnessclub.co.uk/Furness-Films.html

Home Start High Peak is delighted that BBC Children in Need has awarded a grant of £98,642 over 3 years. This grant will fund the FRED Project and will help make a difference to the lives of disadvantaged children and young people here in the High Peak.

Home Start High Peak are looking for:

• New Trustees, who will help guide and contribute to leadership and direction of the charity.
• An Administrator to support the busy charity office in Buxton.
• New family support volunteers to join the team of volunteers.

Contact Anthea Murfin Lone coordinator:  Telephone: 01298 72777, Mobile: 07971957668.

www.homestarthighpeak.org.uk

• Casablanca, Monday 4 September 2017
• Carousel, Monday 30 October 2017
• White Christmas, Monday 18 December 2017

matineederbyshire.org.uk/towns/buxton/

They have a wide range of volunteer opportunities currently available at Blythe House and in two of their four charity shops in New Mills and Buxton.  If you can spare a morning or afternoon to help at the hospice they are particularly looking for extra help in the following areas:

• Serving light refreshments to patient,  staff and volunteers 
• Assisting in the creative art group to help patients enjoy all types of craft and painting mediums
• Drivers to bring patients to the hospice in the morning and to take them home again mid-afternoon.

To enquire about these or any other volunteer opportunities contact 01298 815388 and ask for Nicki or email  info@blythehouse.co.uk

www.blythehousehospice.org.uk/careers/volunteering-vacancies.php

1) Families Fund – This item includes some key points about this new Sport England fund, including a summary of the assessment criteria.  

2) Co-op Funding for Good Causes – This fund is open to CASCs, charities and scouts or guides groups.  Members vote for projects to have a share of the funding. The deadline for applications is 8 August 2017.

3) Central England Co-op Fund – next deadline 28 July 2017.  Not to be confused with the fund detailed above, although this is another membership scheme, with grants up to £5K available.  There are Central England Co-ops right across the county 

4) EON’s Energising Communities Fund – This fund can support energy efficiency projects which can include appliances and insulation.  Grants from £50 up to £2,000 are available.  The deadline is Monday 7 August.

All the news items above are detailed in the attached word document if you have difficulties opening up the content of this email.

For further details - www.derbyshiresport.co.uk/funding-news

The shop is open Tuesday to Friday 10am - 4.30pm and Saturday 10am - 4pm, selling good quality furniture and furniture that has been made or restored in their workshop. 

You can donate any unwanted furniture in good condition, which can be collected from your home. Upholstered furniture must comply with fire regulations.  Electrical goods in good working order are also accepted, but not washing machines, tumble driers, cookers or dishwashers.

www.glossopdalefurnitureproject.co.uk

25 July 9.30-4pm – Substance Misuse.
8 August 9.30-4pm – Alcohol Awareness and Brief Interventions.
22 August 9.30-4pm – Substance Misuse.

Both these courses are FREE to people working with individuals and communities in Derbyshire and are based In Chesterfield - Derbyshire Alcohol Advice Service, First Floor, Dents Chambers, 81 New Square.

Tel: 01246 206514    Email: training@daas.uk.com

To book.visit www.alcohol-advice.co.uk/training/

As Small Charities Week focuses attention on the excellent work of small charities, CFG launches its Counter Fraud Campaign and has produced a free guide and checklist for you to protect your charity and it's assets from fraud.

The Small Charities Guide to Preventing Fraud will help small charities to outline the steps you need to take to protect yourselves against fraud, highlight what tell-tale signs to look out for, know what to do once you have detected fraud and where to report the fraud to. 

To compliment The Small Charities Guide to Preventing Fraud, CFG has also produced a Counter Fraud Checklist. This checklist is designed to help charities to establish or strengthen their counter-fraud policy. The checklist asks ten essential questions that all charities should be thinking about when working to tackle fraud.

They are looking for supporters to join their supporters group. On the supporters group, they will post what they are looking for support with, so you can choose what you want to support. 

Supporters group link: www.facebook.com/groups/285715645234691/ 

Website: www.lifeyouchoose.org 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/lifeyouchoose/  

Email: lifeyouchoose@hotmail.com

This is the biggest moorland conservation project in Europe (they're the ones with helicopters delivering lime and seeds to the uplands), and has an amazing impact  on the health of the local peat blanket.

Entitled 'Carbon, Climate, Water and Wildlife - the Scientific Work to combat the Catastrophe of Bare Peat', the talk will provide illustrations of the vital importance of our local peat bogs - which store the bulk of the UK's land-based carbon - and whose steady degradation over 200 years has meant increased carbon emissions, reduced water retention, increased risk of flooding, and diminished wildlife. This is all being reversed by this inspirational project.

www.northderbyshireccg.nhs.uk/

After you have completed your distance they will send you a lovely shiny medal to say a big well done!   £6 entry fee.

How will you complete your distance?  For more information contact the fundraising team on 01298 815388 or email fundraising@blythehouse.co.uk.

Himalayan Balsam is an imported annual plant that grows and spreads rapidly, overwhelming native plants and establishing a monoculture. Biological diversity declines, and when the plant dies back in winter the bare soil is liable to erosion, particularly on riverbanks. 

The plant is easy to identify and pull up, and there has been a noticeable impact where it has been tackled over the last 4 years or so in New Mills at Mousley bottom nature reserve, The Torrs park, and the area of land known as the Picker..

Transition New Mills are keen to identify groups who could help in this task, and also get benefits for themselves.  The activity is great light-moderate exercise, and gets people in and amongst nature. 

Transition New Mills can look to arrange suitable events for your group, and have arranged public liability insurance for their events, which have been risk assessed, and led by a knowledgeable leader with a first aid kit on hand. They would choose appropriate lower risk sites to tackle if appropriate with some groups. 

Contact transition.newmills@gmail.com for more information.

transitionnewmills.org

Funded by the Henry Smith Charity, grants can cover up to two-thirds of the cost of a holiday or trip lasting one to seven days. To be eligible in this round, trips must be taken before the end of August 2017. Deadline 21 July.

www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk

This is funding from Derbyshire County Council Public Health.

There are two opportunities to apply: in July and November 2017. 

The First round of applications took place in July but there is still £7k to bid for. 
The deadline for this second round of applications is 13 November 2017. 

Who can apply to this fund? - Small to medium High Peak organisations with an annual turnover of £50,000 or less.

You can apply for a maximum of £2,000 for any voluntary and community project that addresses the ‘5 ways to wellbeing’; particularly for people with a higher risk of experiencing mental health and wellbeing problems.

To get your application form and full criteria email: jackie@highpeakcvs.org.uk or telephone: 01663 735350 or download:

5 Ways to Wellbeing Information Guide

5 Ways to Wellbeing Application Form

This is funding from Derbyshire County Council Public Health.

There are two opportunities to apply: in July and November 2017. 

First deadline is July 14 2017

Who can apply to this fund? - Small to medium High Peak organisations with an annual turnover of £50,000 or less.

You can apply for a maximum of £2,000 for any voluntary and community project that addresses the ‘5 ways to wellbeing’; particularly for people with a higher risk of experiencing mental health and wellbeing problems.

To get your application form and full criteria email: jackie@highpeakcvs.org.uk or telephone: 01663 735350 or download:

5 Ways to Wellbeing Information Guide

5 Ways to Wellbeing Application Form

Public Health have published two reports which look at the scale and nature of alcohol hospital admissions, self-harm amongst children and young people in Derbyshire.

This report looks at hospital admissions as a result of self-harm for 10-24 year olds living in Derbyshire.

This report looks at alcohol specific hospital admissions amongst children under 18 years old living in Derbyshire. 

People receiving the service are supported by an enablement worker, who will help them to develop confidence in daily living tasks, such as shopping, travelling, cooking, cleaning and managing their finances. People may also be supported to join education or training classes, to find suitable paid or voluntary employment or to join community social groups.

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The events will take place in Swadlincote, Burton-on-Trent and Chesterfield and will give people the opportunity to have a chat with our adult care staff and have any questions answered.

www.derbyshire.gov.uk

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Training sessions are taking place in:

• Long Eaton on Wednesday 5 July
• Bakewell on Tuesday 11 July
• Bolsover on Wednesday 12 July
• Ripley on Wednesday 19 July. 

Further sessions will run throughout 2017.

There are three sessions throughout the day:

•  Dementia Friends Information Session (9.30 to 10.15am) – learn more about dementia and how you can help to create dementia friendly communities

•  Befriending Champions training session (10.30am to 1pm)– find out what it is to be a Befriending Champion, the skills needed and how to carry out the role

•  Microgrant funding information/workshop session (1.30 to 3.15pm) – support to develop project ideas that reduce isolation and loneliness in Derbyshire, how to apply for the microgrant, and help to access other sources of local funding

The day runs from 9.30am to 3.15pm. People can attend one, two or all three sessions. Lunch is provided.

To attend the training or for more information please contact Richard Murrell, Derbyshire Befriending Champion Co-ordinator, on 01283 219761 or email champions@sdcvs.org.uk.

SGP View from the Peak 39 Summer 2017

Contents:

• Community Organising Green Space (COGS) Furness Vale
• Friends of Conduit Street Playing Fields
• Buxton and Beyond Macular Support
• Share memories of Whaley Bridge
• Glossop Men’s Gang
• High Peak Single Parent Network
• 5 ways to wellbeing small grants scheme
• Good mental health in Glossop

Popular orchestral arrangements including theme tunes from Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Super Mario Brothers, Apollo 13 and much more...

Young musicians perform this orchestral concert in one of UK’s biggest caves. Helping tackle homelessness - supporting work with rough sleepers in Sheffield.

Tickets from www.peakcavern.co.uk or at the door. Seated: £5 adults / £3 concessions.  Standing: £3 adults / £1 concessions

For information call 0115 947 6202 or visit www.nottinghammusichub.org.uk

They help people throughout Derbyshire to maintain their accommodation, and in other aspects of daily life, including budgeting, improving daily living skills, accessing specialist services, and developing supportive local networks.

For those with their own accommodation, they can offer support to remain living well in their own homes via our Hub sessions in Buxton and Glossop.  Telephone 01298 214379 to make an appointment.

www.idecidederbyshire.org

In recent years the four Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Derbyshire County Council (DCC) have provided financial support to a number of organisations that provide services in the community.  The CCG's and DCC have been jointly reviewing grant funded arrangements for mental health over the past year.

As part of the continuing review of mental health voluntary sector funding, the CCGs and DCC would like to hear your views on proposals to make changes to the Rethink Focusline service.  The consultation will be open for six weeks, starting Wednesday 14 June and during this time you will be able to give your views via an online survey or by coming along to one of two events where you can hear about the proposed changes and have the opportunity to ask questions and tell commissioners what you think. The events will be held on Thursday 13 July at the Function Room, Winding Wheel, Chesterfield S41 7SA and Wednesday 19 July at Ripley Leisure Centre, Derby Road, Ripley DE5 3HR.  To book a place contact NDVA on 01246 555908 or by email at info@ndva.org.uk. 

You can complete the online survey at www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Focusline

Please read the related Focusline Consultation document which contains more details about the proposals before completing the survey.

The consultation period will end on 26 July 2017, following which a report using the information gathered during the consultation will be prepared to enable CCG Governing Bodies and DCC Cabinet to make an informed decision about the Rethink Focusline funding.

High Peak Nightstop is appealing to all its friends, supporters and service users to vote online to help them receive a £25,000 Community Award from the Freemasons.

As part of Freemasonry’s 300th anniversary celebrations, the Masonic Charitable Foundation is distributing three million pounds to 300 charities across the country, and High Peak Nightstop is one of those selected.

Each of the nominated charities will receive a grant, but the public vote will determine how much they receive, ranging from £4,000 to £25,000. Those who want to vote should visit the MCF website www.mcf.org.uk/vote select the Derbyshire page and vote for the charity of their choice. The voting period is from Monday 12 June until Monday 31 July.

mcf.org.uk/vote

Inviting the people of Glossop and surrounding areas to share ideas about how we can help the people of Glossop with their mental health.

10.0am Registration and Welcome.  Coffee/ tea.
10.05am  An Introduction to Diabetes
11.10am  Diagnostic Dogs
12 noon Discussion
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm  Wellbeing, Volunteering, Caring
2.0pm   Mental Health In Diabetes
3.0pm Coffee/tea
3.15pm Genetics of Diabetes
4.0pm Plenary session and overview
4.20pm Presentation of certificates
4.30pm Close

If you require any further information, phone 10298 871644 between 9am and 6pm or email sooby@rocketmail.com

This is funding from Derbyshire County Council Public Health.

There are two opportunities to apply: in July and November 2017. 

First deadline is July 14 2017

Who can apply to this fund?

Small to medium organisations with an annual turnover of £50,000 or less.

You can apply for a maximum of £2,000 for any voluntary and community project that addresses the ‘5 ways to wellbeing’; particularly for people with a higher risk of experiencing mental health and wellbeing problems.

For further information or to get your application form email jackie@highpeakcvs.org.uk or telephone 01663 735350

www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/news_events/news-updates/2017/june/news_items/driver_training_for_older_motorists.asp

Volunteers are needed to sit on a grant panel and make decisions about applications to the SWP Community Grants Scheme.

www.southwestpeak.co.uk/how-to-get-involved/jobs-and-volunteering/ 

Goods range from cleaning products, toiletries, clothes, toys and a range of other items that can be used to:

• Give to people you support 
• Clean and maintain facilities
• Fill goody bags for events

Items are all new and good quality but may be short dated, have slight defects in the packaging or branding.  Charities register online, for free, and order products via an online catalogue. 

Although not a traditional funder, In Kind Direct helps charities to save money on everyday essential items. Charities can then use the money they save for other more important projects/outgoings.

Charities pay a small handling charge for the service. This helps contribute towards the costs of running a warehouse, staff, packaging and delivery. There is no extra charge for delivery. Registration is free!

www.inkinddirect.org

Organisations interested can apply for a grant (up to a maximum of £40,000) to deliver substance misuse recovery outcomes in Derbyshire (usually aimed at people who are exiting drug and alcohol treatment services).

They will  have 4 weeks to complete the application form in full and return it - the deadline will be Friday 30 June 2017 at midday.

www.derbyshire.gov.uk/community/

Sight Support Derbyshire (formerly Derbyshire Action for Blind) is a charity, dedicated to giving advice and support to people in Derbyshire, who suffer from sight loss. They offer Low Vision Aids, Home Support Aids and a Rehabilitation Service.

They work alongside other partner organisations such as, The Royal National Institute for the Blind, Library Services, Talking Books and Newspapers, The Macula Society and many others.

They invite partner organisations to have a table at the event, so that they can meet visually impaired people and their families.  The aim is to give people as much information, help and advice in one place.

For more information contact 01332 292262.

Everyone who is affected by dementia is invited from 2 - 4pm every other Wednesday at the Community Centre, Lower Lane, Chinley.  June 7  and 21, July 5 and 19 - further dates to follow.

Contact Victoria on 0779 454 5195  vic_kayee@hotmail.co.uk

This year, the Summer Fair and Charity Bazaar has a ‘Celebrating Summer’ theme with local charities, support groups, and voluntary bodies decorating their stalls accordingly.

Their goods and games are being complemented by entertainments, other attractions, and music both inside and outside the Gardens Marquee e.g. samba and brass bands. There's also the Grand Draw (50p/ticket). That’s your chance to win £100, goods donated by local businesses and other cash prizes totalling £150. The Mayor arrives at noon to judge the stalls and award prizes for children’s competitions - and there’s lots more going on. This promises to be a fun family day out, with something for everyone.

INSIDE THE GARDENS MARQUEE

Stalls & Goods: Toys; Accessories & 'Make Your Own'; Bric-a-Brac; Games of Chance; Cakes; Handmade Crafts; Jams; Chutneys; Plants Crafts (various); Fancy Goods; 'Good as New'; Handmade Cards; Artworks (various); Jewellery, Scarves, Handbags; Charity Merchandise; Books; Bunting …

Attractions & Entertainments: Story Teller; Colouring Competition; Rec Youth Theatre Workshop; Making Pottery etc for kids; Spiral Wishing Well; Splat The Rat; Face Painting; Have A Go Puppets; Games and Quizzes; Shadow Puppet Making; Chocolate Tombola (and others); Children’s Hand Writing & Picture Competitions Exhibits; Hook-a-Duck; Magician & Bending Balloons … 

OUTSIDE AND IN THE GARDENS

Food Stalls; Model Boats on Lake; Donkey Rides; Samba Band; Soap Bubbles Display; Brass Bands; Inflatable Slides; Bouncy Castle; Erin Hounds Treasure Trail; Games of Skill; Sandy Beach; Space Hopper Races; Roundabout; Trampoline … and more weather permitting. 

GLOBAL SLACKLINE CHALLENGE

Buxton Record Attempt. Can you stay on a slackline for 10 seconds? How many people can we count do it throughout the day? Organised by University of Derby students.

Finally, help Rotary Club of Buxton's Registered Charity by bringing along any old mobile phones for recycling.

www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=620336&ClubID=272

DCC are piloting a service that enables people who use British Sign Language (BSL) to use an online interpreter and set up a three-way conversation with their staff.

Called SignLive, it connects people who are deaf or hard of hearing with a SignLive interpreter via video, who then rings us on a special number and assists in the conversation. The service is available from Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm.

This means that deaf and hard of hearing people in Derbyshire can now contact DCC and seek assistance without the need to pre-book an interpreter.

To use the service, you will need:

• A PC or Mac that runs Windows and has a webcam
• A modern browser, such as Google Chrome or Safari. Windows version 8 or 9 can be used but will need a plug-in
• Bandwidth of at least 256Kbps upload and download (384Kbps recommended).

www.derbyshire.gov.uk

www.togmind.org/get-involved/working-for-us/

● Specialist fitness and flexibility activity for mature adults.

● Specialist in personal training for 50 to 90 year olds.

● Virtually anyone can benefit including anyone with mild to moderate mobility, cardiac or respiratory issues.

Sessions include Nordic Walking - very safe but incredibly effective. Invented in the 1940’s now in over 40 countries and millions of participants worldwide.

Contact Phill 07484868949   peakfit2@gmail.com

If you are interested in a pitch to sell at this event or a mooring email carlirobinson@yahoo.co.uk for more information

canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/events/2017-07-08-bugsworth-basin-fun-day

Bugsworth Basin Fun Dog Show - classes include: 

• Best trick
• Dog judge would like to take home 
• Agility course 
• Best OAP 
• Best under two years 
• Best rescue 
• Best fancy dress 

www.actionfraud.police.uk/news/alert-microsoft-tech-support-scammers-using-wannacry-attack-to-lure-victims-may17

The event will take place on both campuses – Devonshire Dome, Buxton and Stockwell Street, Leek. 

There will be activities for all the family to enjoy from face painting to virtual reality demonstrations to taster classes!

There will be competitions to win throughout the day. This includes prom packages, spa vouchers and a meal for 4 at the Dome. 

For more information about the event contact Alex Fisher a.fisher@blc.ac.uk

As a Befriending Champion you will receive:

• Free training to give you the skills and knowledge to become a Befriending Champion - lunch provided!

• The chance to be part of a network of other likeminded Befriending Champions.

• Support to help you or people you help to develop ideas for projects that reduce isolation and loneliness.

• The chance to apply for a microgrant to make project or activity ideas become a reality.

• Other training opportunities – such as becoming a Dementia Friend .

Bookings ar being taken for training sessions across Derbyshire during July 2017.

To find out more about being a Befriending Champion and the microgrant scheme, contact: Richard Murrell, Befriending Champion Co-ordinator, Tel: 01283 219761 Email: champions@sdcvs.org.uk

A wide range of voluntary and statutory organisations have contributed to developing what promises to be an exciting week.

Events include

• Dementia Friends sessions
• Information Stands
• Matinee Dementia Friendly screening of Show Boat
• Memory and activity groups
• Tea parties /picnics
• Memory marketplace event 
• Launch of dementia friendly swimming sessions
• Launch of dementia friendly Alfreton Town Market Place

Mon 15 May at Buxton Library, Kent Banks Road - 3 options: 09:45, 11:00 & 12:15pm - Dementia Friends Session open for all members of the community throughout the day. Venue is wheelchair accessible.

Tue 16 May at Buxton Morrisons, Bakewell Road - 2 options: 10:30 & 13:30pm - Dementia Friends Session open for all members of the community. Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Wed 17 May Derbyshire Police launch the Herbert Protocol.- a national scheme which encourages people with dementia, family, friends and carers to put together useful information on a simple form which can then be used if a person with dementia goes missing. See Derbyshire Police website for more details.

Wed 17 May at Buxton Morrisons, Bakewell Road - 2 options: 10:00 & 14:00pm -  Dementia Friends Session open for all members of the community. Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Covering important topics such as inheritance issues, long term care fees and how to protect your home and savings, inheritance tax, lasting power of attorney and of course the toy boy situation.

If you think your group could benefit from this free session please contact Debbie Beatson on 0800 110 5221 or debbie.beatson@coop.co.uk

Find out more about local services for people with sight loss.  See the range of equipment and aids.

They will be joined by: Age UK, Dolphin, Glaucoma Society, Blind Veterans, Calibre, Audio Library, Wireless for the Blind.

www.sightsupportderbyshire.org.uk

For more information contact 01332 292262.

Among the stalls will be information on Breast Awareness, including "The Lemon Campaign”, exercise for health, and complementary therapies. There will also be representatives from Blythe House services including the Children and Young People’s service, the newly developed Lymphoedema Service, the Macmillan Information and Support Centre and there will be also be opportunities to speak to a secondary breast cancer nurse specialist.

For more information contact Claire or Liza on 01298 815388

Blythe House Hospice, Eccles Fold, Chapel-en-le-Frith, SK23 9TJ

It is a basic level introductory course aimed at people who have no previous mental health training or who are non-mental health workers whose work or volunteering brings them into contact with people with mental health problems.

Suitable for a wide variety of job roles for example receptionists, physical health workers, librarians, support workers.

To register your interest visit www.dmhf.org.uk/MHAtraining.htm or email MHA@dmhf.org.uk

Friday 19 May Buxton Library 9.30am-4.30pm
Tuesday 25 July Buxton Library 9.30am-4.30pm

Covering important topics such as inheritance issues, long term care fees and how to protect your home and savings, inheritance tax, lasting power of attorney and of course the toy boy situation.

If you think your group could benefit from this free session please contact Debbie Beatson on 0800 110 5221 or debbie.beatson@coop.co.uk

Events include:

I Love Small Charities Day: Three social media competitions to win funds for your charity.

Big Advice Day: Free advice on any charity topic of your choosing from experts across the sector and business leaders.

Policy Day: Local and national events will be held to support engagement between small charities and policy makers and influencers.

Fundraising Day: Take part in free competitions and initiatives to raise vital funds for your small charity and join events to improve your knowledge on fundraising topics.

Small Charity Big Impact Day: Showcase your small charity and the fantastic impact it makes by applying for the FSI’s Small Charity Big Impact Awards.

Celebration Day: Get involved and run an event to help raise awareness of and celebrate your amazing work.

Check the website now as some deadlines are fast approaching.

See www.smallcharityweek.com for more information and follow @SCWeek2017 for breaking news.

Many groups and venues are putting on special showcase events and workshops and inviting members of their local community to join them while other groups have listed their regular meet-up as part of the Festival to encourage new members to come along and find out what's happening. See the website to list your own event, access tools to help promote your event or find an event happening near you.

On Friday 5 May, Voluntary Arts Festival supporters and creative groups across the country will help to launch the Festival with a Thunderclap on social media accounts.

Sign up at: www.thunderclap.it/projects/54381-volartsfest-2017-launch

Ashford War Memorial Institute on Tuesday 9 May 10.00 am – 1.00 pm.  

Barrow on Trent Village Hall on Tuesday 16 May 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm.

Managing trustees of village halls have a duty under Charity Law to insure the Charity’s assets and liabilities and may be personally liable if they fail to do so.

Both sessions will include:

• What is Underinsurance?
• How secure is your hall?
• Confused about Trustee Liability Insurance?
• How to minimise risk
• Questions and answers session

There will also be the opportunity to provide individual hall premium indications and/or quotations if requested at the end of each event.

Delegates will also get FREE copies of the ACRE Information Sheets on insurance cover (usual cost £10 each).

For further information about these events or for any other village and community building enquiry contact Helena Stubbs on 0845 3138800 or 01629 592973 or email: h.stubbs@ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk

Assistance for groups with IT grants, UK-wide for the provision of PC's, laptops, smartboards, projectors and networks.

Most mainstream capital IT is eligible.

Net Solutions Wales have been assisting the Third Sector for over 20 years and work on the basis of supplying the awarded Kit (at no cost to your organisation or ongoing commitment).

Any UK NFP group or charity with UK beneficiaries is eligible.

• One application per year.
• Grant - 100% Aid
• Spend within One Year
• Grant Aid to UK Voluntary groups / Charities
• The Grant's are for IT - Full Support

www.netsolutionswales.co.uk/e-nsw-2/grants.html

Applicants to email: claudio@netsolutionswales.co.uk

Find out more about this new service, to be delivered by Healthwatch Derbyshire from the 1 July 2017.

The aim of the project is to involve mental health service receivers and carers in the design and delivery of health and social care services in Derbyshire, including Derby city.

Meeting agenda:

• Outline the proposed model of delivery for the project
• Begin discussions to set up the project steering group
• Learn more about the existing network that supports mental health service receivers and carers, and how we can work in partnership
• Give people the opportunity to ask questions and input ideas.

If you would like to attend please contact Tammi Wright: tammi@healthwatchderbyshire.co.uk, 01773 880786 to book a place.

National Grid has supplied DFRS with over a thousand carbon monoxide alarms, 500 smoke alarm testing sticks and information leaflets for Community Safety Officers and Firefighters to give out during Safe and Well visits. Safe and Well visits see Community Safety Officers and Firefighters give fire prevention advice to residents. The visits target those most at risk, including elderly people and families with young children.

www.derbys-fire.gov.uk/news/news-items/derbyshire-fire-rescue-service-and-national-grid-raising-awareness-of-the-dangers-of-carbon-monoxide-gas-poisioning/

Are you 16-25? Looking for work? Not only will it boost your confidence and employability, but you’ll also have the chance to benefit from the support of one our mentors to help you uncover your next steps.

Taster Day 28 April 2017

• All training provided and a guaranteed interview for entry level jobs at the end of the programme
• Travel expenses paid on programme
• Doesn't affect your benefits
• Boost employability skills and gain a nationally recognised care certificate
• Up to 6 months mentoring support

To join the course or find out more search ‘Prince’s Trust’

Email rosemary.reeschilds@princes-trust.org.uk

Call or Text to 07436 797253

Call for free on 0800 842 842

There will be a cash bar.  There is ample parking at the club.  Seating is limited to ninety people, so book early to avoid disappointment.

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Derbyshire Carers have over 28 years of experience providing support to carers and over the next few weeks, they will be working with statutory, voluntary and independent sector agencies to raise awareness of the new Carers Service.

For further information contact Derbyshire Carers on tel: 01773 743355.

www.carersinderbyshire.org.uk

What the service offers:

  •  Help to match you to the job that’s right for you

  •  Help to find work experience and voluntary work

  •  Make sure you find out about job vacancies

  •  Help to sell yourself with application forms and CV

  •  Help you to prepare for interviews

  •  Advise you about support in the workplace, such as equipment or other support you may need

The service works with anyone living in Derbyshire who has a disability.

Email: disabilityemploymentservice@derbyshire.g ...

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An eight-week course taking place on Tuesday evenings, 6 - 8pm, on the following dates: 28 March, 4, 11, 18 April, 2, 9, 16, 30 May

This course can help you to

• take better care of yourself and others by developing your selfawareness
• improve your ability to manage difficult situations in life, thus reducing your stress levels
• notice and appreciate the good things in life more
• have a better understanding of your mind, body, thoughts, feelings and emotions and how this may impact on those around you and the world you live in.

Formal and informal meditation practices will be developed from week to week to enable you to develop a greater insight and experience of mindful compassion in your everyday life.

Places are limited to 15 and the group format allows for sharing of practice, discussion and exploration of experiences to complement learning. Suggestions for home practice opportunities will be offered at each session and complemented by a programme pack and meditation CDs given at key points throughout the programme.

Facilitator: David Oldham, highly-experienced Mindful Compassion Teacher, Practitioner and Counsellor

Course cost £160, payable on booking with all profits to Blythe House Hospice.

New venue but the same great films!

Join them for the relaunch at the Railway Pub, Whaley Bridge, Thursday 6 April 2017 at 7.30pm

Film screeening, fun and cakes.

Whaleyfilms@hotmail.co.uk   Phone: 07531 982995

What the service offers:

  •  Help to match you to the job that’s right for you

  •  Help to find work experience and voluntary work

  •  Make sure you find out about job vacancies

  •  Help to sell yourself with application forms and CV

  •  Help you to prepare for interviews

  •  Advise you about support in the workplace, such as equipment or other support you may need.

The service works with anyone living in Derbyshire who has a disability.

For more information contact the office on 01629 532441, Tom Winlow, Derbyshire Dales Officer: 07976 445905

Email: disabilityemploymentservice@derbyshire.gov.uk

www.derbyshire.gov.uk/dep

The Committee were delighted to welcome so many residents and visitors to the consultation event. They knew it would be busy because the public engagement with this project has been excellent from the very start, but even so couldn't have predicted that so many people would turn out in support. It just goes to show how important a new playground is to this Village.

They showed people 5 competing designs and asked them to pick their top 3 ranked in order of preference. They also invited written comments on any aspect of the designs or the project in general.

It is too early to say which design or designs came out on top, but all of the public votes and comments will be taken in to account in the final phase. It is hoped that a winning bid and finalised design will be selected by the end of the month and construction started soon after.  All being well the works will be finished by mid-July in time for the School summer holidays.

Make a glass coaster with Kay Stowell 
27 March  2-4pm £10 including materials 
Booking essential: 07860 940740 

Make a felt pod with the Fiddly Felter
Monday 10 April 2-4pm  £8 including materials 
Book your place via:  val_vernon@yahoo.co.uk 

Make a cushion cover with Judi Bostin
Saturday 22 April 2-4pm  £8 
Book your place via: nicjubos@hotmail.co.uk 

The workshops are very popular and numbers are limited so book early.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a truly low energy house? Or how you’d go about making your home more environmentally secure, without spending the earth? Maybe you’re a property development professional, or are interested in ‘self-build’ or, like most of us, have a home you’d like to improve yourself.

Colin has been involved for many years in the design and construction of houses which are economic to build, very cheap to run and don’t hurt the planet. He was profiled recently in The Guardian for his work, which includes his own family home in Merseyside. Colin is also a source of much useful information about how to make changes to existing homes to ensure they have a low(er) energy and carbon footprint, and are economical to run and comfortable to live in.   

Colin is aiming to provide plenty of advice about what’s best to do, and in what order, whether you’re looking to spend £500 or £500,000. He will set out the key things to consider, but is keen also to answer questions his audience might have.

For more information, contact Laurie James 07867 578326 or John McCall 01663 742199, Sustainable Hayfield 

Let Healthwatch Derbyshire know by leaving a review via their online Patient Feedback Centre www.healthwatchderbyshire.co.uk/give-feedback/

The information we be used to highlight areas in which care homes are doing well, as well as identifying areas in which improvements could be made. 

Afternoon Matinee and Evening. Doors open 2pm for 2.30pm programme and 7.00 pm for 7.30pm programme

• March 31 - The Girl on the Train
• April 21 - A Street Cat Named Bob
• May 19 - A United Kingdom
• June 16 - I, Daniel Blake
• July 21 - LA,LA LAND

Refreshments Interval, Accessible toilets, hearing loop. Everyone welcome.

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13.30pm Welcome and Introductions, Purpose of meeting

13.45pm Matters arising and recap of previous meeting

14.00pm What is a Dementia Action Alliance (DAA)
*Why do DAA’s exist
*Joining a local DAA
*Current work of DAA’s in the region

14.20pm Derbyshire Dementia Action Alliance (DDAA)
*Experience in chairing
*Progress within DDAA

14.40pm Dementia Friendly Community project-North Derbyshire

15.00pm Discussion and next steps to become HPDAA

15.20pm AOB

• Eating Disorders Awareness Week
• Body Awareness Therapy BAT5
• Befriending
• Arts Psychotherapy - Dramatherapy
• CPD Training
• Research Project
• Emotional Eating One-to-one Support Sessions for All Ages
• Awareness Raising
• Animal Magic!
• Student Placement

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Morning 9.30am to 12.30pm (Registration 9.00am)

Afternoon 1.30 to 4.30pm (Registration 1.00pm)

17 March 2017 at Holiday Inn Express Derby

For more information about this course contact 01332 362 120. 

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Once again, on Bank Holiday Monday 1 May, 10am-5pm, Buxton Town Centre will be full of life - music and dancing, stalls selling food, gifts and artefacts, activities for adults and children alike. Buxton residents will turn out in their thousands, visitors will flock from far and wide. This is your opportunity to advertise whatever you do to the widest possible audience.

If you want a pitch somewhere at the fair, to trade, to recruit new members, to campaign or to entertain or if you have premises in the fair area and want to extend your frontage, download the guidance and application forms from:

buxtontownteam.org/working-on/buxton-spring-fair2017/

The closing date for applications is 13 April 2017.

To book a slot to perform at one of the Performance Venues please wait a little while longer...

The playground project has gone out to tender and all the bids that meet the criteria will be on display in the School Hall for Public Consultation.

Come along on Wednesday the 8 March from 3-7pm where you can view all the design proposals and speak to representatives from the Friends Group and High Peak Borough Council about the Project.

Everyone welcome.

The group has been set up in the understanding of how hard it may be for carers to find time to leave the person they look after.    

They want to offer a luncheon club where carers and those they care for eat, have fun and get support in the company of like-minded people.

The Together group will run from 12 till 2pm.

For more information contact Helen Bollard at New Mills and District Volunteer Centre, 01663 744196.

The online public consultation will run up to the 13 March and will be available at: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/sexualhealth

The services currently on offer are:

• Contraception services
• Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• Sexual health promotion and HIV prevention

Plan the future of Grapevine - make your voice heard.

Tea and cake - and your ideas, with a bit of fun.

Expert training courses will help you make your business and services more accessible and enable your deaf colleagues to reach their potential.

You will learn about

• the types of deafness and Deaf culture
• practical ways to support deaf customers and colleagues
• ways to communicate with deaf people

24 March 2017 9.30am-12.30pm, £55 per place.

For information, bookings or to arrange a course in your workplace phone 0115 970 0516 or email training@nottsdeaf.org.uk

You will gain skills in:

• meeting and greeting
• fingerspelling
• asking questions
• using numbers and time

Thurs 23 March 2017 9.30am-12.30pm, £45 per place

For information, bookings, or to arrange a course in your workplace phone 0115 970 0516, or email training@nottsdeaf.org.uk

Admission: £12 per person – includes hot food, cakes and a quiz entry as well as local comedian Graham Elliott’s sensational stand up.  

Teams of three to six people.  If you haven’t got a team, they will find you one.  

All proceeds to Crossroads Derbyshire and Home Start High Peak 

To reserve your place email admin@crossroadsderbyshire.org  

Book your place at www.dsc.org.uk/event/dscandiofnw/

Everyone you work with has an impact on your organisation and beneficiaries. Directory of Social Change is working together with Institute of Fundraising North West and bringing you 15 practical and inspiring sessions, to help you work together with others.

15 workshop sessions covering marketing and promotion, fundraising and managing yourself and others.

• A conversation with Debra Allcock Tyler about women and leadership

• Fundraising regulations

• 10 fundraising gaffs and how to avoid them

• Writing for impact - get it read not binned

• Learn to love change

• Love your donors to death

• Make colleagues friends of fundraising

• Big marketing ideas for small organisations

• Tackling Trustees

• The pleasure and pain of working with people

• Attracting Major Donors: from pipeline to principal gifts

• Digital email campaigns - what does success look like?

• Making social media work for you

• Diversifying your income stream

• Presentations with punch

Speakers include Debra Allcock Tyler, Chief Executive of Directory of Social Change and Peter Lewis, Chief Executive of Institute of Fundraising.

IoF North West members can attend for only £95 for the whole day. Plus, the first 50 non-IoF members to book can also attend for this day rate of £95.

Training sessions are taking place in:

• Ripley on Wednesday 8 March
• Bolsover on Tuesday 14 March
• Long Eaton on Wednesday 22 March
• Ashbourne on Tuesday 28 March and
• Glossop on Wednesday 29 March. 

Further sessions will run throughout 2017.

There are three sessions throughout the day:

•  Dementia Friends Information Session (9.30 to 10.15am) – learn more about dementia and how you can help to create dementia friendly communities

•   Befriending Champions training session (10.30am to 1pm)– find out what it is to be a Befriending Champion, the skills needed and how to carry out the role

•   Microgrant funding information/workshop session (1.30 to 3.15pm) – support to develop project ideas that reduce isolation and loneliness in Derbyshire, how to apply for the microgrant, and help to access other sources of local funding.

The day runs from 9.30am to 3.15pm. People can attend one, two or all three sessions. Lunch is provided.

To attend the training or for more information please contact Richard Murrell, Derbyshire Befriending Champion Co-ordinator, on 01283 219761 or email champions@sdcvs.org.uk.

Maybe your charity or local community group has just the right opportunity for their employees?  Historically they have undertaken a good deal of conservation work but the teams are keen to explore any ideas you might have.

Rolls-Royce teams usually range from ten to forty people and can sometimes offer a budget to pay for materials and resources to help deliver the project.

For Rolls-Royce to work with an organisation they must have their own expertise in being able to lead the project and facilitate the Rolls-Royce team which includes providing them with a risk assessment.  They must also be able to provide any tools that the teams are required to use. 

Any interested organisations should contact Debbie Duro, Community Investment Manager via email Debbie.Duro@rolls-royce.com by 24 March giving details of their project. 

A glorious and evocative melting pot of 600 years of Western music from the Middle Ages to the 20th century: an evening of huge entertainment peppered with wit, period finery and earthy olde worlde instrumentation.

Two skilled historical music performers bring to life half a millennium of music with warmth and wit: 30 instruments, plentiful costume changes and 600 years of music in 90 minutes.

Featuring long forgotten songs and tunes (not to mention jokes) GreenMatthews paint a vibrant and vivid picture of our musical DNA, mixing the familiar and the obscure, the raucous and the reflective and the courtly and the commonplace.

Combining the vigour of the medieval period, the musical intricacy of the Renaissance, the grandeur of the Baroque, the pomp and bombast of Victoriana and the barbed wit of 'Blackadder' and '1066 And All That', the stage is set for a veritable musical feast.

Founded in 2011 by Chris Green and Sophie Matthews, GreenMatthews have swiftly earned themselves an enviable reputation for presenting the sights and sounds of the past in a way that is witty, engaging and accessible.

Running time 90 mins + interval. Audience Type: Adults/Family. Age Range: 8+.  Licenced bar open from 7pm.

Tickets £10.00 Standard / £8.00 Over 60 / £8.00 Under 18 from Spring Bank Arts, High Street Books New Mills, and online at www.wegottickets.com

The Fund has recently supported projects ranging from a mental health help-line for young people in Chesterfield and Matlock to a scheme in Buxton which will give adults a second chance at learning to read.

The Derbyshire Federation for Mental Health, Buxton Rotary Club’s Youth Leader Award scheme, Buxton-based Bright Opportunities’ adult literacy scheme and puppet company Funny Wonders all received grants from the Fund in the last round.

The Community Fund is one way in which the University hopes to give back to local people through grants to inspiring projects that seek to benefit the community. 

Community groups throughout Derby and Derbyshire will be able to bid for their share of £15,000 over the next 12 months. There will be three rounds of funding in 2016/17, with £5,000 available in each round.

The Fund is now accepting applications for the next round of awards. To apply, go to www.derby.ac.uk/about/community/fund/

Carla Nitti, Access and Inclusion Librarian, will be sharing short readings and poems which are aimed at encouraging people to reminisce about their memories and join in with the discussion. There will be free refreshments.

The event is open to all, including people with dementia and their carers.  The organiser is used to doing sessions with people with dementia who might go off topic, or need to get up, or who might be very quiet and find it difficult to join in, so if people are interested in bringing a loved one but are worried about anything like that you can reassure them.

If you have any enquiries contact Carla 01629 533454.

Drop in and join us to have a go at making some simple crafts using recycled books. Suitable for complete beginners! Free refreshments will be provided.

For more information ask staff or call Chapel Library on 01629 533962.

Calling voluntary organisations and charities in the Buxton area! Make sure you book your table(s) for the Rotary Club of Buxton's Summer Fair and Charity Bazaar on Sat. 3 June 2017 in The Gardens Marqueé, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton.

The Fair provides an ideal fundraising opportunity and showcase for local charitable organisations as well as the many and various voluntary organisations, (e.g. PTAs, Church Groups, Sporting Organisations etc.)

Space is limited in the Marquee and tables are allocated on a first come, first served basis with Charities/ Voluntary Organisations given priority.

Booking form www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=620336&ClubID=272

If you have a medical diagnosis of living with Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease (COPD) for 12 months or more, are aged 55+, and live in the Buxton or surrounding areas in the High Peak, Derbyshire, you could volunteer to be interviewed face to face and voice recorded as part of a research study. 

Karen Wild is a PhD student at Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG and is researching the experience of living with COPD and the ways in which men living with COPD look after their health.    She would like to interview you for approximately one hour using an audio voice recorder 

Your details are kept strictly confidential.  
Contact k.r.wild@keele.ac.uk  Mobile: 07598765927.

Come along to a fun and informal event for a cuppa and a piece of cake. Guest Stephen Flinders will bring a selection of old objects - join in as people try to guess what they could be! 

Free accessible transport may be available.  For more information call Carla on 01629 533454.

Participants are encouraged to wear Neon/ Bright Colours and glow sticks etc. 

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Part of the service involves an ongoing brief questionnaire. If your organisation has contact with survivors of abuse of any kind then Goddards would appreciate it if you could share the survey.

If you have any queries please contact Serena Bradshaw on 07804 686089

Survey - www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/3BWMXDK

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This FREE meeting take place at 7pm Monday 20 February, and everyone is welcome.  

As usual, information leaflets etc will be available to take away.

Book your place at www.dsc.org.uk/event/dscandiofnw/

Everyone you work with has an impact on your organisation and beneficiaries. Directory of Social Change is working together with Institute of Fundraising North West and bringing you 15 practical and inspiring sessions, to help you work together with others.

15 workshop sessions covering marketing and promotion, fundraising and managing yourself and others.

• A conversation with Debra Allcock Tyler about women and leadership

• Fundraising regulations

• 10 fundraising gaffs and how to avoid them

• Writing for impact - get it read not binned

• Learn to love change

• Love your donors to death

• Make colleagues friends of fundraising

• Big marketing ideas for small organisations

• Tackling Trustees

• The pleasure and pain of working with people

• Attracting Major Donors: from pipeline to principal gifts

• Digital email campaigns - what does success look like?

• Making social media work for you

• Diversifying your income stream

• Presentations with punch

Speakers include Debra Allcock Tyler, Chief Executive of Directory of Social Change and Peter Lewis, Chief Executive of Institute of Fundraising.

IoF North West members can attend for only £95 for the whole day. Plus, the first 50 non-IoF members to book can also attend for this day rate of £95.

Every Wednesday 1 –3pm at New Mills Volunteer Centre.

For details contact: 01663 744196 or E-MAIL:helen@nmvc.org

Are you 16-25? Want to learn new skills?

• Learn the basics about web design and how to create and develop your own blog
• Learn about the different areas involved in web design including editorial, copywriting, basic coding and social media
• Enjoy a fun and rewarding week improving your teamwork, communication skills, and confidence
• Receive three months support after the programme to help you move into education, training or employment
• Help with travel costs and lunch provided every day

Taster day: 7 March Course:13 -17 March 2017, Nottingham City Centre

Don’t miss out! Call or text ‘call me’ to: 07436797253

Alternatively call the Prince’s Trust Office on 0115 8456495 or email rosemary.reeschilds@princes-trust.org.uk

Matinee and Evening for each film - doors open 2pm for 2.30pm programme and 7.00 pm for 7.30pm.

February 17th – Bridget Jones Baby

March 17th – Girl on the Train

April 21st – A Street Cat Named Bob

Refreshments available. Bar open throughout til 12.30 No entrance charge but suggested donation of £3.00 or £2.50 for concessions to help towards future funding of the project.

Inform Susanne Lomas or Frances Footitt if you would like to be on an email list for monthly reminders and information - susanne.lomas@gmail.com

The role is to help support local, "disadvantaged" young people at their creative workshops between 3.15pm-5.15pm (or at least until 3.45pm if you aren't available for the whole workshop), term-time Tuesdays and some Saturdays at the Green Man Gallery, Hardwick Hall in Buxton. The project runs from mid-February to December but you don't need to commit to every workshop. 

Volunteers should be kind, patient and up for a spot of creative mayhem! Workshops will focus on puppetry, music and multimedia arts. Training will be provided. This is a great opportunity for anyone who would like to work with young people, help and support others or to just get involved in a vibrant community arts group. "We have lots going on this year, we just need more people!"

For more information about the role or about getting involved with Funny Wonders generally email hello@funnywonders.org.uk or go to their website www.funnywonders.org.uk

Swim for half-an-hour and raise money for your cause or charity and theirs!

The money your sponsorship raises is split equally between your cause and equipping a school classroom in Neema School, Kenya. The primary school, which now has five classrooms and 250 pupils, was built by the determined efforts since 2001, of Geoff and Margaret Trimby of Hadfield, who set up the Neema School Kenya Trust.

More information, entry, sponsorship and parental consent forms (for those under 18 on 11 March) is on the club's website, or by you can email f.kardahji@gmail.com or call in to Buxton Podiatry Practice, 1A The Savoy, Hall Bank, Buxton, SK17 6EW (01298 23715). Team entries must be in by 3 March latest.

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There are two main ways Wheels to Work can help residents of Derbyshire:

• Moped Loan Scheme 
• Bicycle to Work

www.wheelstowork.org

The Alexi project is currently running a short series of one-day free training sessions across Derbyshire for volunteers and voluntary sector practitioners who are currently working with children and young people in charities, not-for-profit organisations or community groups in Derby or Derbyshire.

Safe and Sound's Alexi project aims to extend strategically the capacity and reach of our child sexual exploitation (CSE) services by offering a free advisory, training and support service to workers initially in Derbyshire and extending into Staffordshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

The aim is to support those working with children and young people in the Derbyshire Voluntary Sector - including those from charities, children’s centres, church groups, youth clubs and after school services (where these are run by volunteers or on a not-for-profit basis)  - is equipped and skilled to recognise and respond effectively to child sexual exploitation. 

Click on a date below to find out what is included in the training and to book your free place. 

Derby – March 6 2017, 9-4.30pm

Chesterfield – May 10 2010, 9-4.30pm

They can only accept 3 delegates per organisation on any one date or spread across the three dates and strictly only those from the voluntary and not-for-profit sector based in Derby or Derbyshire. Those working for the public sector including local authorities, schools and NHS will not be eligible for this course. Bookings by those who are not eligible will be cancelled.

Edwina Archer, Derbyshire Sport will be in Bakewell on Tuesday 24 January 12:00 – 16:00 at  Derbyshire Dales CVS Offices, Agricultural Business Centre, Bakewell.

If you would like advice on funding and grants for your Sports Club you can book a half-hour one-to-one advice session with Edwina Archer.

Sessions are free to all participants. 

Priority to Derbyshire Dales based Sports Clubs as Edwina is running session in other parts of the County.

Book your place: Email enquiries@ddcvs.org.uk or Tel 01629 812154

• Do you work or volunteer in a role that brings you into contact with the public?
• Do you want to help people in Derbyshire who are lonely or isolated?
• Are you part of a local group which supports people who are lonely or isolated?
• Do you have an idea that could help reduce loneliness or isolation in your area?

As a Befriending Champion you will receive:

• Free training to give you the skills and knowledge to become a Befriending Champion - lunch provided!
• The chance to be part of a network of other likeminded Befriending Champions
• Support to help you or people you help to develop ideas for projects that reduce isolation and loneliness
• The chance to apply for a microgrant to make project or activity ideas become a reality
• Other training opportunities – such as becoming a Dementia Friend

The next Befriending Champions Training Sessions will be held in:

• Chesterfield on Tuesday 24th January 2017
• Swadlincote on Wednesday 25th January 2017
• Ashbourne on Tuesday 31st January 2017 and
• Whaley Bridge on Wednesday 8th February 2017.

All sessions run from 9.30am until 3.15pm

To find out more about being a Befriending Champion and the microgrant scheme, please contact Richard Murrell, Befriending Champion Co-ordinator:
Tel: 01283 219761 Email: champions@sdcvs.org.uk

A professional office team provides practical support and advice by helping volunteers to choose shows, and by co-ordinating the bookings, subsidising performances and helping them to attract an audience. The scheme is made possible by funding from local authorities and the Arts Council England but happens because of an investment of time, enthusiasm and commitment by local volunteers and their communities.

If you live in Derbyshire, are part of a voluntary group and have access to a venue and would like to know more about being a Live and Local promoter then contact the local Fieldworker France Newbury at: frances@liveandlocal.org.uk   or mob. 07971354610 (Mon, Tues and Fridays) or contact the Live and Local head office on 01926 402173 or email:   admin@liveandlocal.org.uk

www.liveandlocal.org.uk/AboutLiveAndLocal.htm

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To make referrals please ring 08000 198 668. If you require more information please contact 01246 540464

She says: "Lots of my work colleagues, friends and family already understand, but perhaps it will help others see that just having a disability doesn't limit our motivation, determination and creativity etc – many of those characteristics most desirable in an employee.

At the end of the day, its better to make decisions based on real capabilities rather than sometimes vague concepts of "disability”: see the person, not the condition."

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• Do you work or volunteer in a role that brings you into contact with the public?

• Do you want to help people in Derbyshire who are  lonely or isolated?

• Are you part of a local group which supports  people who are lonely or isolated?

• Do you have an idea that could help reduce  loneliness or isolation in your area? 

As a Befriending Champion you will receive:

• Free training to give you the skills and knowledge to  become a Befriending Champion - lunch provided!

• The chance to be part of a network of other like-minded Befriending Champions

• Support to help you or people you help to develop  ideas for projects that reduce isolation and loneliness

• The chance to apply for a microgrant to make project  or activity ideas become a reality

• Other training opportunities – such as becoming a  Dementia Friend

To find out more about being a Befriending Champion and the microgrant scheme, please contact Richard Murrell, Befriending Champion Co-ordinator Tel: 01283 219761 Email: champions@sdcvs.org.uk

1. Check your indoor and outdoor Christmas lights conform to British Safety Standards.
2. Check the battery in your smoke alarms every week. Only working smoke alarms can save lives.
3. Decorations can burn easily.  Keep them away from heaters and lights.
4. Make sure you, your family and any visitors know what to do in an emergency and know your escape plan/route.
5. Never overload your electrical sockets.
6. Most fires start in the kitchen. Never leave cooking unattended.  The risk of accidents in the kitchen is greater after alcohol is consumed.
7. If you have an open fire, use a fire guard and do not store fuel next to the fire.
8. Take the time to check on elderly relatives and neighbours this Christmas. Check their smoke alarms as well as their general health and wellbeing.
9. Make sure cigarettes are completely extinguished before going to bed and never let ashtrays overflow.
10. Never place candles near your Christmas tree or furnishings. Battery powered candles are much safer.
11. Always switch Christmas lights off and unplug them before bed.
12. If planning to celebrate with fireworks - always follow the fireworks code.

www.derbys-fire.gov.uk/news/news-items/12-top-tips-for-staying-safe-this-christmas/

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The Weston Charity Awards celebrate and support excellent charities working in the fields of Youth, Welfare and Community. This year, the awards will support 18 charities across the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands.

Weston Award winners will receive £6,500 unrestricted grant funding alongside business mentoring support from capacity-building charity Pilotlight. The purpose of the award is to support ambitious charities personally and financially so you can achieve your goals.

For more information or to apply for the Weston Charity Awards 2017, please visit www.westoncharityawards.org or call us on 020 7283 7022. Applications open on Monday 5 December 2016 and close on Friday 13 January 2017.

The cafe makes a real difference to residents in the community.

They do have some reserves who can be called on when helpers can't attend, but need another permanent person to make the rota work. 

If you or anyone you know can help with this commitment phone 01663 744764 or email susanne.lomas@gmail.com 

Do you struggle with poor Mental Health resulting in isolation and low self-esteem?

Do you live in the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales area?

The above event is funded by CCG Mental Health Commissioners and will highlight Self-Help groups available to you and your families and carers.

All are welcome to attend the Event! If you are coming please contact Tim Westwood 01629 733915 or Julie Dadson on 01298 72965. Assistance with travel to the Event may be available.

SGP View from the Peak 38 Winter 2016

Contents:

• Celebrating Friends of Conduit Street Playing Fields
• Happy Birthday Fibro
• High Peak Self Help
• Glossop VIP Support Group
• Opportunity to Speak Film
• The Wellbeing Group
• Funding Opportunity for Buxton Groups

The estimated number of young people aged 5 to 16 in Derbyshire with a mental health disorder is 10,100. The Anti stigma strategy wants to remove barriers and make it easier for young people to ask for help.

They would like to hear your thoughts on how they can best do this, how you'd like to hear from them and what's important to you.

If you would complete and forward the link below to young people, professionals, parents and carers to complete. The survey will be online for completion for the next week.

www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=147931069137

At the recent committee meeting the HPCVS Celebrating People Award trophy and certificate were officially presented to the committee. Everyone is thrilled and expresses heartfelt thanks to all at the CVS for all they have done. The trophy is going to be presented again to the children of Tintwisle School in recognition of the help they have given, and it will then go on display in the school for a period of time.

United Utilities have donated a magnificent 12ft tree to be the centrepiece of the Christmas event and the Council is to dig a permanent hole to mount it in that can be used again and again in subsequent years.

The new Facebook address is www.facebook.com/friendsofconduitstreet/ 

The Friends of Conduit Street Playing Fields would like to invite you to join us on the Park for some festive fun on the 10 December from 5pm-7pm.

There will be mince pies and other goodies on sale from Tintwistle Honesty Box as well as Mulled Wine and Hot Vimto. Arnfield Brass Band will be playing Carols and the children of the Village school will be decorating the tree with baubles they have made themselves. Glossop Mountain Rescue will also be in attendance and they might just bring a special guest with them…..hohoho! There will also be a raffle and the first prize is £50 worth of Marks & Spencer Vouchers. A donation from any profits will be made to Glossop Mountain Rescue to support the vital work they do.

High Peak CVS has been restructuring its services to accommodate the harsher financial climate we are working in. The aim is to ensure the CVS continues to provide essential support services to the Voluntary Sector in High Peak for the foreseeable future.

As part of the concentration on our core development and representation services, it has been decided that we can no longer offer a community print service and the service will close on 30 November 2016.  

We very much regret any inconvenience this causes groups, particularly our regular users, but hope that you will be able to find alternatives with other local printers or online print services.

If you have any queries please contact either Jackie on jackie@highpeakcvs.org.uk or Nigel on nigel@highpeakcvs.org.uk

The club enables children to have fun in a safe and stimulating environment and runs from 9-30 to 12.30 every weekday. 

They begin meeting in the New Year and meet approximately 6 times before the club starts with members doing a variety of activities to ensure the club is successful. This would be an opportunity for new trustees to do something worthwhile which will benefit 30+ children and also give families a much needed break.

If you are interested or want more information contact Sue Howard on 01663 735211 or email suehoward1406@gmail.com

Remedi are a charity funded by the Police and Crime Commissioner as part of Victim Services to support victims of any crime.

The week commencing 21 November is International Restorative Justice Week and Remedi are looking to promote their service to as many people in the community as possible. 

Remedi are a free and confidential service who can also signpost onto specialist agencies if required.  Anyone can contact them at any time and they will do what they can to help.

Contact Remedi at katrina.wood@remediuk.org or on their office mobile 07747 347815.

You can find more information about Remedi and Restorative Justice at www.remediuk.org or www.restorativejustice.org.uk

Try your hand at this great craft activity which is suitable for beginners.

For more information or to book a free place ask staff or call New Mills Library 01629 533195.

Committee Members / Trustees Roles and Responsibilities - Wed 23 Nov 2016

Food Safety - Tue 24 Jan 2017

What Every Chair Should Know - Wed 22 Feb 2017

Emergency First Aid at Work - Wed 1 March 2017

In January 2016 the guidance around recommended limits of alcohol was updated. The new guidance states that the limits for both men and women are the same – which is to not drink more than 14 units a week, and spreading these units evenly over 3 or more days.

The theme of Alcohol Awareness Week 2016 will look focus on alcohol and health, and knowing the risks associated with alcohol. They have information on their website which is free to download www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/factsheets

They created the video with different perspectives on what eating disorders mean to people as individuals, and to help break some stereotypes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoosKT0VLA0

If you are helping women who are

• Asylum seekers or refugees
• Homeless (or previously homeless)
• Survivors of trafficking or domestic abuse
• Survivors of substance abuse
• Out of prison
• Have any other issues leading them to work with a support agency

You can now access subsidised EU training tailored to your needs.

The EMPOWER (Educational Materials for Practitioners providing Opportunities for vulnerable Women’s Employability and Resilience) course aims to:

• Help you develop your own skills and confidence as a Volunteer/paid Support Worker to support vulnerable women gain valuable soft skills
• Help you develop the skills needed to support vulnerable women to gain employment or start their own business
• Exchange knowledge and learn from other Support Workers in a supportive group environment via a strengths-based training and group coaching programme

There is also subsidised  training available for the women you support in 2017. If any of the women you support would benefit from having training in employment skills, please do get in touch. 

There is an information session on 23 November 2016, between 1:30-3:30 pm at the Quaker Meeting House, Sheffield to tell you more about the training and give you the opportunity to sign up for training.

To reserve your place please go this link on Eventbrite bit.ly/2dY3twg

If you can't attend but would like to apply for the training see bit.ly/2eM83jZ

One of the 7 categories is Improving Impact for organisations with 3 or less staff, to encourage entries from smaller charities. They will also cover the train fares of any small charities that are short-listed to attend the awards event.

They feel local  small charities could have good but untold governance stories, and the awards could help them be told. 

The deadline for the awards is Friday 13 January.

www.charitygovernanceawards.co.uk

You can book a one-to-one slot with Sarah Stainthorpe to find out if your group is eligible for a small grant. One of their schemes, Embrace Derbyshire, offers grants up to £1000 for any activity or group that has a community benefit to people in any part of county.

If you would like to book a slot please contact Sarah Stainthorpe on 01773 525860 or email hello@foundationderbyshire.org

To find out more about the work of Foundation Derbyshire please visit the website www.foundationderbyshire.org

This comedy drama celebrates the human spirit, the power of music and the passion of amateurs everywhere.

Afternoon Matinee - doors open at 2pm,  Film Run including pre-film items from 2.30pm. Interval with ice creams and confectionery sales. Suggested admission contribution £2 per adult 

Evening Showing - doors open at 7pm, pre-film Item 7.30pm,  Main film approx 8pm. Interval with sandwiches, hot drinks, ice creams. Suggested Entrance contribution £3.00 adult £2.50 concessions.

Bar open throughout. Hearing Loop area. Full accessible areas and toilets. 

Also coming up at the Club.

Saturday 19 November - Buzz Comedy Night - COGS fundraiser tickets £10 from the shop or the bar.

Sunday 4 December 1-4pm - Christmas Fayre  (rent a stall £5)

Research from the British Dental Journal in 2015 shows that drinkers receiving a brief intervention were twice as likely to reduce their drinking over 6-12 months compared to those who received no intervention 

DAAS are running free training courses on:

• Alcohol Awareness & Brief Interventions 
• Working with Families Affected by Substance Misuse 
• Working with High Risk Drinkers
• Substance Misuse Awareness

See details at alcohol-advice.co.uk/training

If you, anyone in your organisation or any community groups that you know of would like more information on smart meters please contact them. They are happy to bring people together to offer free training and/or further information.

The priority is to promote the benefits of smart meters to the community oil-buying scheme customers. They can also provide information and raise awareness of smart meters to off-gas communities in rural Derbyshire.Although most homes in UK will have gas and electricity meters, as RAD are targeting off-gas communities they are concentrating on electricity meters.

Smart meters are the new generation of gas and electricity meters which will replace the traditional meters in our homes. Every home in England, Scotland and Wales will be offered a smart meter by their energy supplier, at no extra cost, between now and 2020. Your supplier will be in touch to arrange an appointment when they are ready to install yours.

Smart meters will enable you to see exactly how much energy you’re using as you use it, and what it is costing in pounds and pence. They take regular readings and share these directly with your energy supplier through a secure wireless network, putting an end to estimated bills and manual meter readings.

Smart Energy GB is the voice of the smart meter rollout. 

For more information about smart meters and how they can help you visit ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk/smart-meters or www.smartenergygb.org/en/faqs

Contact Community Oil Buying Project Officer and RAD Administrator Emma Simpson directly if you would like her to provide direct training or information - E.Simpson@ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk

Alongside their daily drop-in service, they offer a series of Self-Help groups run by volunteers in a therapeutic setting.

They are currently looking for the following facilitators to run:

• a weekly support group for individuals and families living with autism / aspergers syndrome.
• a fortnightly basic computer course / fun session.

Although they cannot pay tutor fees, they are able to offer expenses.

If you have the time to offer your services to worthy recipients contact:  
Julie Dadson  (Manager) 01298 72965,  email: office@grapevinebuxton.org.uk

The Light up a Life appeal at Blythe house Hospice provides a poignant and beautiful opportunity for you to remember and reflect upon the life of someone important to you by dedicating a light in their memory.  It is also an opportunity to celebrate something joyful such as a wedding a anniversary, significant birthday or birth of a child.

Katie Holt and her daughter Scarlett dedicated a light and lit a candle at last year’s festival "We dedicated our light in memory of our special friends and family who are longer with us.  This light will shine bright just like they did".

The starry white lights, which adorn the hospice building and garden, shine daily for nearly two months.  They represent not only celebrated lives and events, but also the vital work of Blythe House Hospice, which each and every dedication supports.

The Light up a Life appeal - supported by Tarmac, will launch with a celebration on Sunday 20 November from 3.00pm.  The switch-on will be accompanied at 3.45pm by performances from Tideswell Male Voice Choir and a short service led by the Rev Richard Mottershead.  There will be opportunities to dedicate lights and buy Christmas cards and gifts.

Families and friends are welcome to visit Blythe house before, during and after the festival to reflect and write messages in the Light up a Life book at the hospice.  The lights themselves will continue shining in and around the hospice between 3.30pm and 11pm every evening throughout the festive period. 

Dedicate a light with the Light up a Life form at www.blythehousehospice.org.uk

Further information is also available by contacting Blythe House Hospice on 01298 815388.

Join the FREE five-day development programme in Chesterfield

• Work with professional artists  to learn new skills and produce your own art work
• Gain a Bronze Arts Award qualification
• Enjoy a fun and rewarding week improving your teamwork, communication skills, and confidence
• Receive three months supportafter the programme to help you move into education, training or employment

There is help with travel costs and lunch will be provided every day.

The course will take place from  12-16 December2016, celebration event 16 Decemberat  DCAS, Chesterfield, S40 1NL. The taster day will be held on Thursday 6 December.

To register your interest or to find out more please contact 0800 842 842; Text: ‘Call me ’ to  0 7983385418 and they will call you back   

www.princes-trust.org.uk

Light refreshments of tea, coffee, biscuits and cakes will be served from 12.45pm. The AGM will be from 1.15pm - 3.15pm at Whaley Bridge Uniting Church, 35a Buxton Road, Whaley Bridge SK23 7HT

Your group / organisation will need to be a member of High Peak CVS to vote at our AGM. Contact Jackie on 01663 736436 or email jackie@highpeakcvs’org.uk to check membership status.

Guest Speaker - Our main speaker this year is Niall Cooper who is the Director of Church Action in Poverty who is leading the End Hunger UK campaign team. This campaign is about tackling food poverty together and working for a UK where everyone has access to good food and no one goes to bed hungry. We are also pleased to say that Paul Bohan Co-coordinator of the High Peak Foodbank will also present a local perspective on the issues around food poverty.

Celebrating People Award - Once again, High Peak CVS is inviting nominations for its ‘Celebrating People Award’. Last year’s winners were G52. This year’s winning group will receive the Award, a framed certificate and £100.  The deadline for submission of applications is Monday 24 Oct.

Board of Directors - There are vacancies on the Board of Directors; if you are interested in representing members on the Board, contact Joy Brown, High Peak CVS Chair on 01663 719386, or by emailing mail@joybrown.plus.com.

AGM 2016 Agenda

AGM 2015 Minutes

HPCVS Annual Report 2016 - Resources for Stronger Communities

Annual Accounts 2016

AGM 2016 Members Letter

Celebrating People Award Letter 2016

Celebrating People Award Application Form 2016

We are excited to let people know that our main speaker is Niall Cooper, Director of Church Action on Poverty, who will be speaking on the national campaign to Tackle Food Poverty Together, which is backed by a number of leading national charities such as Child Poverty Action Group, Fare Share, sustain etc.

The campaign is calling for an urgent national conversation about what needs to be done, by the Government and others, to ensure that children get the food they need to give them the best start in life, and that nobody in the UK needs to go hungry.

A recent report from the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation suggested that as many as 8.4 million people in the UK struggle to put enough food on the table. The work of local Foodbanks confirms there is a need in High Peak.

Everyone is welcome to attend the AGM, which runs from 1.15 to 3.15pm, with Niall speaking shortly after 2pm, followed by a local perspective on the issue from Paul Bohan of High Peak Foodbank.

For more information contact Nigel Caldwell at High Peak CVS nigel@highpeakcvs.org.uk  or ring 01663 736423. Also see the website www.endhungeruk.org

>> Full details of the HPCVS AGM

Opportunity for your hall or centre to become registered as a potential venue for hire by Derbyshire County Council – act now to be on the list of suppliers!

Officers at Derbyshire County Council can only hire external venues for their meetings, training, events, etc. that are registered on their list of approved suppliers. It makes sense therefore that if you want to attract more bookings, and your hall has some spare capacity, to register before the deadline of 11.00am on 18 November 2016.

If venues/halls aren't on the External Venue Hire list, then DCC staff won`t be able to hire them with the loss of potential bookings for your hall.

If you are interested, read the following details on how to register your organisation:

TENDER OPPORTUNITY: CTP763 External Venue Hire

The Corporate Procurement team at DCC currently have a tender out for External Venue Hire.

They are trying to attract as many venues to this opportunity as possible, including Hotels, Village Halls, Parish Councils, Community Centres, Sports Facilities etc. for meetings, conferences or other DCC business.

No venue is too big or too small, or is required to have specific facilities or equipment, They simply want to know what each venue has to offer. Derbyshire County Council will only be able to hire venues and meeting rooms from the suppliers that are registered before the deadline.

Suppliers can access the documents in 1 of 3 ways:

1.    Register your organisation with the East Midlands Tendering Portal at www.eastmidstenders.org , once registered you can express an interest in the opportunity and download the tender documents.

2.    Download the documents from Source Derbyshire at www.sourcederbyshire.co.uk/contracts/show/id/14634

3.    Email stuart.etchells@derbyshire.gov.uk or joanne.platts@derbyshire.gov.uk

The deadline for responses to this opportunity is 11am on the 18 November 2016.  

If you require any further details, please email Stuart Etchells or Joanne Platts (email contacts above).

Life You Choose is an arts and multimedia group for adults with learning difficulties. Their audio drama has been shortlisted by Audio Verse Awards, and international competition. They are up against professionals in this field, and are so excited to have been chosen by the judges. They now need your vote and support for the public vote.

Voting ends 5 November - 'Who's Johnny Long Arms?' www.facebook.com/events/1301482523195940/ 

With a technique that is similar to the upper body action of classic cross country skiing, Nordic Walking becomes a genuinely whole body exercise that can be enjoyed at many levels, from walking for health to athletic Nordic Running. More than 10 million people globally enjoy this outdoor activity all year round.

How will it benefit my body? Nordic Walking combines the simplicity and accessibility of walking with simultaneous core and upper body conditioning similar to Nordic Skiing. The result is a full body workout, which means that you:

● burn up to 46% more calories compared to walking without poles

● improve overall fitness

● release tension in the neck and shoulders

● improve your posture and gait

● strengthen your back and abdominal muscles

● reduce the impact on the joints

And because Nordic Walking doesn’t feel like hard work you’ll be happy to walk further and for longer.

Is it for me? Nordic Walking is a very accessible activity and something that can be shared by people of different fitness levels. It’s an ideal activity for people who haven’t exercised for a while or who dislike traditional sports or gym activities. An injured person can use the poles to support and guide, working to improve fitness as part of their rehabilitation. Athletes can use Nordic Walking for cross training and incorporate Nordic Running. Community groups find it a sociable way to keep fit.

Phill Alcock - International Nordic Walking Federation Instructor
07484868949 peakfit2@gmail.com

This is a great opportunity to focus on community shares and how this type of positive investment is being used by community groups and community businesses to create what they want to see in their communities. There has been significant growth and interest in community shares and over the past few years over 400 community businesses have raised over £100 million from community share offers.

This is a fantastic opportunity to network and learn about the latest trends and market data.

Jamie Hartzell, chair and founder of the positive investment and savings platform, Ethex, will talk about the findings of their landmark survey on "Understanding the positive investor”. This could help people thinking about community shares to be able to better reach out to people who want to support great work in their communities and encourage them to invest in projects and community businesses.

Please register your free place by 13 November at www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-make-the-most-of-community-shares-tickets-28607165803

Spaces are very limited so only book if you are able to attend. Refreshments will be provided. If you are unable to attend in person you can join in remotely from your computer, tablet or smartphone at global.gotomeeting.com/join/261877589 

You can also dial in using your phone United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 3535 0621  Access Code: 261-877-589 

Customers will vote in store to decide which project gets the top award. This project aims to fund, design and deliver a brand new children's playground and public greenspace that all the residents and visitors to Tintwistle can enjoy and be proud of.

The park is the only dedicated children's space in the Village and has fallen into a poor state of repair with a chronic lack of funding and investment. A grant of £12000 would represent a fifth of the total we need to rebuild the forgotten community resource - a huge step towards the end goal.

Tintwistle is blighted by the Woodhead pass and the associated traffic congestion so a bright and inviting new park is desperately needed. Please consider voting for this project when you shop in your local Tesco.

Ashover Parish Hall on Thur 17 November 2.00  -  4.30pm at Milken Lane, Ashover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S45 0BA

Duffield Parish Hall on Thur 24 November 2.00 – 4.30pm at St Alkmund’s Parish Church, Church Drive, Duffield, Derbyshire, DE56 4BA

Delegate fee - £40

Successful marketing leads to increased bookings, increased interest and more volunteers; ultimately, towards a thriving village hall. These training session consider the charitable objects of village and community halls; who its customers are and what they might need or want.  It covers marketing principles, gives guidance on developing a marketing strategy and explores different ways of promoting a village or community hall.

For the benefit of managers of all types of community buildings – not just charitable halls.

The sessions include:

• Understanding your hall’s charitable objectives
• Marketing principles
• Developing a marketing strategy
• Knowing your market – real and potential users of the hall
• How to identify and capitalise on your ‘unique selling point’ (USP)
• Different ways to promote your hall
• How Social Media can be used to promote activities in your hall
• Community Directory Derbyshire 

For more information and booking form:
www.ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk/village-halls-training.html

Grants of between £2,000 and £50,000 are available for projects that can demonstrate how they fall into Object D of the Landfill Communities Fund. Object D shows commitment to the protection of the environment, and the provision, maintenance or improvement of a public park or another public amenity. WREN’s definition of an amenity is something that a community will have access to and be able to use for leisure or recreation purposes.

Examples of eligible projects include, but are not limited to:

• Replacement doors and windows for village halls and community centres.
• Provision of children’s play equipment in open public spaces.
• Construction of footpaths and cycleways in public parks.
• The provision of all-weather play surfaces for MUGA multi use games areas.
• The provision of skate parks.
• Dipping platform and all weather paths at local nature reserves.

To be eligible a project also needs to be situated within the vicinity of a landfill site – see details and eligibility checker on website below.

Although match funding is not a specified requirement, the Waste Recycling Group (as a condition of providing WREN with the Landfill Tax Credits) require project applicants to secure the help of eligible 'Third Parties' who will reimburse them with an amount equal to 10.75% of any grant committed. Third Party funders cannot, however, gain any unique benefit from the project put forward for funding.

Applications will be accepted from the following types of organisations:

• Registered charities which operate a community facility.
• Churches or Parochial Church Councils.
• Parish or Town Councils or Management Committees or User Associations acting on behalf of Parish or Town Councils.
• Local Authorities.
• CASC Registered Sports Clubs.

Other organisations may still be able to apply for funding if they apply as a secondary applicant with a Parish Council, Local Authority or charity which has an involvement in their project site.

The deadline for applications is 22 February 2017 (5pm)

Further details here: www.wren.org.uk/apply/wren-grant-scheme

Come and hear about the progress of the work on the field.  Give your feedback and ideas.  Help plan for the future. Maybe you would like to get involved.with a friendly group always keen to attract new members and volunteers.

www.derbyshire-pcc.gov.uk/Taking-Part/Consultation-and-Community-Engagement/Consultation-and-Community-Engagement-2016/Listening-To-You-2016.aspx

To book a session or for more information ask staff or call Whaley Bridge Library 01663 732480.

Opportunity and Change works with people who have experience of substance misuse, repeat offending, mental ill health, domestic violence or homelessness. Participants in the scheme have a full assessment of their needs before being assigned a personal Navigator to provide personalised advice and support.

As one of the local partners of the Derbyshire and Nottingham programme, Derventio will provide support to people in Amber Valley, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash and High Peak in Derbyshire.

For more information or to make a referral contact Julie Howells on 01159 443 865 or julie.howells@derventiohousing.com

www.derventiohousing.com

Come and hear about the achievements and find out about exciting plans for the coming year.

Light Refreshments will be provided and an opportunity to network with members of staff, Board Members, Volunteers and other supporters of Crossroads Derbyshire (formerly High Peak Women’s Aid)

RSVP - Julie on 01457 856675 or email: admin@crossroadsderbyshire.org by Friday 11 November.

The courses are funded by Derbyshire Public Health and the CCGs and are part of an ongoing programme of training aimed at the voluntary and statutory sector.

Interest in these free courses is very strong so places are limited to five people per organisation per course. Early booking is advised. All courses run from 9.30-4.30. Lunch is not provided but hot drinks will be available (either free or to purchase) on the day. 

Booking Form

MHA25  Fri 25 Nov 2016 at Bradbury House in Glossop

MHA28 Tue 10 Jan 2017 at St Oswalds in Ashbourne

MHA29 Thu 26 Jan 3017 at Chesterfield FC

Other Venues

There are three FREE sessions throughout the day:

 Dementia Friends Information Session –  learn more about dementia and how you can help to create dementia friendly communities;

 Befriending Champions training session – find out what it is to be a Befriending Champion, the skills needed and how to carry out the role;

 Microgrant funding information/workshop session – support to develop project ideas that reduce isolation and loneliness in Derbyshire, how to apply for the microgrant, and help to access other sources of local funding.

The sessions are for anyone active in their local area, whether an employee or a volunteer, who wants to help tackle isolation and loneliness in Derbyshire.  Sessions will be delivered by Richard Murrell, Befriending Champion Co-ordinator for Derbyshire based at South Derbyshire CVS.

Book by Monday 10 October 2016. Places are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Further details on the Booking Form

Help and advice from:

• Adult Care 
• Age UK
• Derbyshire Fire and Rescue
• Derbyshire Libraries
• Glossop Volunteer Centre
• Live Life Better Derbyshire 
• Well Fit
• Welfare Rights advice

Plus:

• Basic help with mobile phones
• Help to get the most out of your tablet
• Free refreshments 
• Dementia Friends Information Session 11.00 – 12.00

There is a choice of two half-day ‘Fire Safety in Village Halls’ training seminars:

Baslow Village Hall on Wed 2 Nov 2pm  -  4.30pm (Nether End, Baslow, Nr Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1SR) Delegate fee £40

Hulland Ward Millennium Hall on Tue 8 Nov 2pm – 4.30pm (Dog Lane, Hulland Ward, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, DE6 3EG) Delegate fee £40

The current fire safety law in England and Wales is covered by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. It applies to general fire precautions and other fire safety duties in non-domestic property, which includes community buildings. Helping village and community hall management committees understand their legal responsibilities.

The sessions will include:

• The need to appoint a 'competent person (s)'
• How to carry out a ‘fire safety risk assessment’
• What fire safety precautions to use - where it is reasonable & practical to do so
• Useful tips for village hall committees
• The need for a Fire Safety Policy

www.ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk/fire-safety-training-for-village-halls.html

In the past a candlelit vigil has been held to remember that two women are killed each week in domestic abuse incidents. However, this year High Peak and Derbyshire Dales Domestic Abuse and Sexual Abuse Action Group would like you, your friends and family to join them on a short walk as part of the ‘Derbyshire Day to Remember Victims’.

Help raise awareness of domestic abuse, remember the victims and learn about the support available. The aim is to make this year’s free event more inclusive and family friendly, so it will include a short guided walk, with a quiz on route, refreshments and light lunch to finish the event.  

The event will have a variety of food, arts, retail and craft stalls along with fun activities for all the family, so come along and support this inspiring local organisation.

thomastheyerfoundation.org.uk/event/buxton-fair-2016-devonshire-dome

• Fundraising for Beginners – Wed 5 Oct
• Writing a Press Release - Mon 10 Oct
• Health Safety for Volunteers and Community Groups – Fri 21 Oct
• Making the Most of Gift Aid – Thu 10 Nov
• Manual Handling – Tue 15 Nov
• Emergency First Aid at Work - Tue 22 Nov
• Trustees Roles and Responsibilities - Wed 23 Nov

See the HPCVS website for full details

The subsidy provides support towards the cost of the equipment and installation of a satellite or wireless broadband service, up to the value of £350.

www.digitalderbyshire.org.uk/better_broadband_subsidy_scheme/default.asp

The Social Value Act 2012 came into force on 31 January 2013. The act places a requirement on commissioners (and procurement officers) to consider the economic, environmental and social benefits of their approaches to the procurement of public services.

A group comprising representatives from departments has been established to support the development of Social Value across the council. The group has produced a draft Social Value Strategy, which sets out the aims, priorities and key actions required to develop Social Value.  

The consultation process is important in ensuring that the voluntary and community sector and suppliers are able to input their views.

The consultation is aimed at:

• Contracted service providers (and those hoping to win contracts)
• Service users
• Voluntary and community organisations

You can take part by filling in an online questionnaire - the consultation is open until 20 November 2016.

Chris made a significant contribution to local groups within the High Peak including High Peak CVS. Chris had the unique ability to get to the nub of an issue, cut through to what is important and succinctly lay out the way forward. He was always dedicated, responsive, supportive and jovial. When he passed away, the High Peak voluntary sector lost one of its strongest advocates and supporters.

Through this award, High Peak CVS wants to celebrate and commemorate not only Chris’s contribution, but also his insight into the potential of voluntary activity for personal and community growth.

The award will offer local groups the opportunity to raise their profile and gain recognition for the work they do. Our key assessment criteria will be around acknowledging your achievements and progress. Examples of the types of changes we are looking for maybe around revitalising your group, attracting new members, attracting new funding, developing a new project and or making a significant impact in your local community.

You can apply on behalf of your group, you can be nominated by or nominate another group. A small panel will make the decision.

High Peak CVS will present the Award, a commemorative plaque, framed certificate and cheque for £100 for the group, at its Annual General Meeting in November. The Award is open to all groups, however small or large, newly formed or long established and we encourage everyone to apply. 

There is a simple application form which groups are asked to complete and return to: Jackie Donnelly, High Peak CVS, Dunbar House, 105 Buxton Road, Whaley Bridge, High Peak SK23 7HX. or Email: jackie@highpeakcvs.org.uk or Tel: 01663 736436 

The closing date for applications is Monday 24 October 2016.

The website is constantly updated and there are full and part time opportunities. All vacancies are advertised on DDCIL’s website www.dcil.org.uk/PA

You can download job descriptions and application forms directly and you can register to receive updates in your local area as they arise. If you are looking to recruit PAs they may be able to offer their services to you also;

Contact DDCIL Park Rd Ripley DE5 3EF 01773740246

The course runs from Monday 24 October to 2 December, and will begin with a training week, where candidates gain on the job experience.  In the following five week work placement they will work towards a nationally recognised care certificate training which will help progress them into a career of their choice.

Information Flyer

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The consultation is around better joined up care closer to home.

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They are starting to introduce the special add-ons to the Saturday markets - Craft, Quirky and Vintage on the first Saturday each month, Food & Drink on the third. They will also be having a special Christmas Market on Saturday 3 December, and will stay open till 8pm, which will coincide with a Christmas Carnival Parade through the town and other seasonal festivities.

Thanks to support from the Bingham Trust charities, community groups and other not-for-profit organisations can take a stall for free. They do restrict this offer to two markets per year for each organisation. Obviously you can have stalls more frequently if you pay the standard market rate for them.

Normally they also have a restriction of only one free charity stall on each market, but in the run up to Christmas, on the 'Special add-on' market days, they are relaxing this. So if you'd like a stall to promote your organisation between now and the end of the year get in touch - admin@buxtonmarkets.co.uk

The seminars are supported by funding from Public Health at Derbyshire County Council and are free to those living or working in the county.

Seminar dates from October 2016 to June 2017 Seminars run from 9.30am to 1.00pm

• Tuesday 18 October 2016 Bakewell
• Friday 18 November 2016 Chesterfield
• Tuesday 6 December 2016 Swadlincote
• Thursday 19 January 2017 Alfreton
• Tuesday 21 February 2017 Chesterfield
• Wednesday 15 March 2017 Long Eaton
• Thursday 6 April 2017 Markham Vale
• Thursday 11 May 2017 Wirksworth
• Monday 5 June 2017 Buxton

To secure your place on this popular course book at www.eventbrite.co.uk and search for ‘Suicide Awareness Seminar’

For more information contact the Suicide Awareness Training Project Officer by emailing sat@ruralac7onderbyshire.org.uk 

Admission is £10 per person for hot food, cakes, entertainment by Glossop Ukulele Band and quiz entry. Any size teams from 3 to 6. If you haven’t got a team they will find you one.

To reserve your place(s) and pay on the door email wynnemoran@btinternet.com or admin@crossroadsderbyshire.org 

Since 2007, Rotary Club of Buxton has supported the annual Christmas Pudding Appeal organised by Cwmbran Vale Rotary Club. The 2015 Appeal was for the Stroke Association; participating Rotary Clubs raised £10,000. The 2016 Appeal is for 'Meningitis Now'.

All profit from purchases of the 908g (2lb), serves eight, light, sweet (but not too sweet), luxuriously delicious, award-winning Ultimate Christmas Pudding - price still only £10 - goes to 'Meningitis Now'.

Post or deliver your order for a 2016 Appeal Christmas Pudding to Buxton Podiatry Practice, 1A The Savoy, Hall Bank, Buxton, SK17 6EW by 28 October latest. Make cheques payable to ‘Rotary Club of Buxton’ and include your telephone number and email and postal addresses. Puddings will be delivered to Buxton, Dove Holes, Chapel-en-le-Frith and Earl Sterndale addresses by early December; arrangements will be made with those outside these areas to collect their orders.

Contact: rotarypuds@gmail.com, 01298 26406

Allergens: contains egg, wheat, nuts, soya; may contain mustard; may also contain fragments of shell or kernel or small stones. Full list of ingredients (and order form if you wish) at www.buxtonrotaryishere.co.uk

Sunday 2 Oct 12 noon to 8pm at Grafton Centre, Grafton St, Hyde.

Free health checks, free pamper, live music, activities.