News & Developments

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.