News & Developments

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.