News & Developments

Home-Start High Peak provides a unique service for families – recruiting and training volunteers to support parents with young children at home.

Home Start High Peak are looking for a couple of Trustees to join their existing dedicated trustees.  They have also have secured some funding to train additional home visiting volunteers. They hope to run a volunteer preparation course before Christmas, so they are ready to volunteer from January.

Trustees Needed

www.homestarthighpeak.org.uk/how-you-can-help/trustees-needed/

Volunteers Needed

www.homestarthighpeak.org.uk/how-you-can-help/volunteers-needed/

The report contains the findings, recommendations and pledged responses from commissioners.

>> View Report

 Sat 6 April, 2019 7.30pm  £15

www.wegottickets.com/event/445943

The aim of the fund is to improve the mental wellbeing of people living in Derbyshire by providing community based activities and services that help people to access the "Five Ways to Wellbeing” - a set of national evidence-based actions which promote people’s wellbeing.  They are Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give.

• Grants are up to £1000
• Applications are invited from voluntary, community or faith groups active in High Peak.
• Closing Date 30 November 2018
• We are particularly looking to fund new projects or activities that take an asset-based approach. This means building on or developing the skills, knowledge and capabilities of local residents within your project.

For more information and an application form email nigel@highpeakcvs.org.uk

Help by buying a 908g (2 lb), serves eight, Christmas Pudding, price still £10; it is fully cooked and just needs reheating. Post/deliver your order, along with a cheque payable to ‘Rotary Club of Buxton’, to be with Rotarian Andy Collier, 93 Green Lane, Buxton, SK17 9DJ, by 30 Nov latest (date we place our bulk order). Include your telephone number and email and postal addresses, which will be held securely.

Instructions on how to order and pay by BACS and a downloadable order form if you have a printer, are on the website link below. Orders from Buxton addresses will be delivered by early December; customers outside Buxton will be asked to collect their puddings by arrangement.

Pudding Appeal contact details are: e: rotarypuds@gmail.com, t: 01298 23161.

Puddings may contain mustard and fragments of nutshell, kernel or small stones. Main allergens are egg, wheat (gluten), nuts, sulphites, sulphur dioxide, but do check via our website or at rotaryxmaspuddings.co.uk, where a unit case of 12 puddings can be bought online for £120 including free delivery. Rotary Club of Buxton have been supporting Cwmbran Vale Rotary's Christmas Pudding Appeal since 2007, selling 1,776 puddings to date.

www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=725817&ClubID=272

You can apply for a grant of between £300 and £2,000 for activities to mark the centenary in your community. Small Grants are available for grassroots projects to run small-scale events and activities to celebrate the centenary of women gaining the vote. There have previously been two bidding rounds in 2018, this is now the third and final bidding round. 

www.womensvotecentenaryfund.co.uk

Help by buying a 908g (2 lb), serves eight, Christmas Pudding, price still £10; it is fully cooked and just needs reheating. Post/deliver your order, along with a cheque payable to ‘Rotary Club of Buxton’, to be with Rotarian Andy Collier, 93 Green Lane, Buxton, SK17 9DJ, by 31 October latest (date we place our bulk order). Include your telephone number and email and postal addresses, which will be held securely.

Instructions on how to order and pay by BACS and a downloadable order form if you have a printer, are on the website link below. Orders from Buxton addresses will be delivered by early December; customers outside Buxton will be asked to collect their puddings by arrangement.

Pudding Appeal contact details are: e: rotarypuds@gmail.com, t: 01298 23161.

Puddings may contain mustard and fragments of nutshell, kernel or small stones. Main allergens are egg, wheat (gluten), nuts, sulphites, sulphur dioxide, but do check via our website or at rotaryxmaspuddings.co.uk, where a unit case of 12 puddings can be bought online for £120 including free delivery. Rotary Club of Buxton have been supporting Cwmbran Vale Rotary's Christmas Pudding Appeal since 2007, selling 1,776 puddings to date.

www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=725817&ClubID=272

• Thurs 11 Oct   Substance Misuse and Brief Interventions
• Tues 16 Oct    Working with Families Affected  Substance Misuse
• Tues 30 Oct    Alcohol Awareness and Brief Interventions
• Tues 6 Nov     Working with High Risk Drinkers 
• Thurs 15 Nov  Substance Misuse and Brief Interventions

These course are all FREE to eligible staff, held at our base in Chesterfield and can be booked at www.daas.uk.com/training

Rural Action Derbyshire (RAD) is delighted to join forces with Rural Community Action Nottinghamshire (RCAN) to present an informative and interactive event with top speakers, case studies and a networking lunch, specifically for managers of village halls and community buildings.This first cross-county conference dedicated to community buildings, it is an ideal opportunity for anyone with an interest in or involved with managing a community facility, to learn how to become more sustainable and ‘fit for the future’.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Professor Katharine Willis (Associate Professor, University of Plymouth)  The Digital Venue Toolkit and digital inclusion – a guide to getting your village or community venue online

The conference will run from 9.45 to 3.15pm, with coffee/tea available from 9.15am. 

Take advantage of the early bird booking fee to reserve your place:
EARLY BIRD by 26 October - £25 + VAT
BOOKINGS up to 21 November - £30 + VAT

www.ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk/Event/community-buildings-conference

Meetings are informal and safe, friendly, welcoming and confidential - a chance to share experiences and feelings, to swap useful information. 

Please join 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.

Meetings are every second Wednesday 12-2pm at Glossop Labour Club, Chapel Street, Glossop

For more information please contact Liz (HPCVS) 01663 736426, or Debbie  01457 852059.