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Foundation Derbyshire have two new Funds launching at the end of April / early May. Whilst we can't provide you with the full details yet, we can say they will be of great use to community groups and charities working in the following areas:

Youth Activity: Particularly in areas with limited access to youth clubs or other services aimed at young people

Access to education, training or volunteering: This fund will help groups offering soft skills or formal qualifications to people struggling to access employment or education.  

We offer a chance to share experiences and feelings, to swap useful information and, above all, to be there for each other.

Please call us if you have suffered a recent bereavement and are struggling to find local support or if you were bereaved some time ago and still feel stuck. And if you feel you have managed to come through and are ready and able to help others.

To find out if the group could help you contact Liz High Peak CVS 01663 736427/ 07702 168187 or Blythe House 01298 875080.

High Peak CVS are also in partnership with other Bereavement Groups in the High Peak area. Get in touch with Liz to find out more information about these.

Heading out to do some shopping or run errands over the coming weeks, you might notice some new faces that crop up regularly in shops and businesses across the High Peak and Hope Valley. 

More than 170 collection pots are dispersed across the community in places like banks, shops, cafés, pubs and companies, with members of the public donating spare change to help support their local hospice.  

The generosity of local people, and the businesses that are proud to display Blythe House collection pots, helped the hospice to raise an amazing £10,872 throughout 2018 and 2019. 

All these donations enable the Chapel-en-le-Frith hospice to continue to provide free care and services to local patients with illnesses including cancer, COPD, heart failure and neurological conditions such as motor neurone disease, as well as supporting their carers and families.  

If you would like to house a Blythe House collection box in your shop or local business call 01298 815 388 or email fundraising@blythehouse.co.uk

These workshops offer a toolbox of skills for tackling eating disorder difficulties, focusing on warmth, empathy and self-reflection.

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Take a trip back to Prohibition-era America with Ma Bessie. This show is an incredible time capsule and brings the very best of 20s/30s blues and jazz to the present day, focusing on the life and musical canon of the late, great Empress of Blues herself, Bessie Smith, and contemporaries such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.

Doors open 7pm for 7.30. Bar during interval. Disabled access and lift.

Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/chapelarts and Chapel Town Hall weekday mornings.

Tel bookings 0333 666 63366 – co hosted with Live & Local.

High Peak CVS is working with colleagues from around the county, to look at how local voluntary organisations, community groups and social enterprises (VCSE) can be part of new plans for joined-up health and social care – an Integrated Care System.

New local structures and partnerships are being developed in Derby & Derbyshire to support and manage this new way of working, and it’s really important that VCSE organisations small and large are an integral part of this.

We want your views on :

• How we can best work together, to make sure VCSE voices and experiences from diverse organisations are heard, inform the design, development and delivery of integrated care?
• What existing networks and communication systems can we build on?
• What are the challenges, opportunities and gaps – what else needs to happen and what can we do better?

We invite you to join us for a discussion with other VCSE organisations, public sector and other colleagues on Wednesday 18 March 10am to 1pm at Ballroom at Whitworth Centre, Darley Dale, Matlock

NB Parking is now charged at a cost of £1 for 4 hours.

We are keen to keep an eye on numbers attending - so if you are able to come along, it would be great if you could let us know by emailing Lynn Alison at lynn@avcvs.org

If you can’t make this event there will be other opportunities to have your say, so please contact High Peak CVS on: 01663735350 or email: hello@highpeakcvs.org.uk to express your interest in knowing more, and we will keep you informed.

It needs at least 6 people to support on the day of the event. 

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New Mills Town Hall, Saturday 7 March 10am-4pm

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A High Peak hospice volunteer service described as ‘gentle, invaluable and amazing’ is seeking local people who would like to support patients in the comfort of their own home. 

Blythe House Hospicecare’s community volunteer programme provides practical and emotional support in the homes of local patients who have life-limiting illnesses including cancer, COPD, heart failure and neurological conditions such as motor neurone disease. 

After completing comprehensive training, community volunteers are able to provide help and support to patients and their families including respite breaks, companionship, light household chores and gardening. The current team of 22 volunteers donated over 400 hours of support between October and December 2019.  

Alison Dronfield-Boyd from Buxton became a community volunteer in June last year after retiring early. She has been offering help to a local patient who has motor neurone disease, and said: ‘I support with a variety of things including improving accessibility to make life easier, for example, moving items in the kitchen to a lower level. I have ironed clothes, as this is something that the individual can no longer carry out. I have also walked the dog and carried out gardening tasks. The main thing during all this is the companionship; we chat and enjoy each other’s company. ‘The community volunteer programme is a massive support to people who need it and is extremely personally rewarding. It’s the best thing I have ever done with my time; I would say that even the smallest amount of time that can be provided is very much appreciated.’

To find out more about community volunteering at Blythe House, including a new training programme due to get underway next month: ​

Email:  volunteering@blythehouse.co.uk

Call: Vicci Wild or Julie Forrest on 01298 816 990 

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