Calendar

Green Futures Grimsby are inviting people who might be interested in volunteering with them to pop along on Friday 7th June for their open event from 1-3pm.

This is part of Volunteers Week celebrations and is a chance to see Green Futures and meet the team and find out more about volunteering there. Later in the afternoon they will also be having a celebration event with their existing volunteers to say thanks for all their efforts.

Poster below. Contact Green Futures for more info or to let them know you are coming along.

on Saturday 8th June join us for a World Oceans Day event at Cleethorpes Discovery Centre from 10am-3pm for litter picks, photographic competition, plastic sculpture workshops, arts and crafts and more. Contact Victoria for more information and more details next week. (Victoria@vanel.org.uk, 01472 315437).

Download the poster here.

Small Fakers Live at MOTW!

Tickets £10 ADV | £13 OTD, available from MOTW, Solid Entertainments (48 Wellowgate, grimsby) or online at http://www.solidentertainments.com/presents.htm#MOON and direct from Richard by calling him on 0780 954 1818.

The Crime Reduction Fund (CRF) is open for applications now and the next closing date is

21st June 2019

All the information about the fund and how to apply is here.

details tbc

The Crime Reduction Fund (CRF) is open for applications now and the next closing date is

13th September 2019

All the information about the fund and how to apply is here.

NORTHERN LINCOLNSHIRE VOLUNTEER MANAGERS NETWORK

Wednesday 25th September 2019 – 9.30am – 12noon

The Val Waterhouse Centre, Kent Street, Grimsby, DN32 7DJ

A G E N D A To follow shortly.

PLEASE NOTE:  Booking essential – please reply to liz@vanel.org.uk

 by telephone or email by Thursday 19^th September 2019 to confirm attendance (for refreshment purposes).

PAYMENT INFORMATION:

• Organisations that annually subscribe to the Volunteer Development Service: this meeting is part of your subscription fee.
• Organisations that do not subscribe to the Volunteer Development Service: £10 per organization

 (up to 2 places per organisation).    On receipt of confirmation of attendance your organisation will be invoiced for this meeting.

An Older People’s Advice Day will take place at Cleethorpes Memorial Hall on the 2nd October.

It will be between 10am and 3pm. Information and guidance about a whole host of issues for older people.

VANEL will be there ready to talk to people about Volunteering and Big Local North Cleethorpes will be represented to share news about support for local people (including free IT support).

NORTHERN LINCOLNSHIRE VOLUNTEER MANAGERS NETWORK

Wednesday 27th November 2019 – 9.30am – 12noon

The Grimsby Central Hall, Duncombe Street, Grimsby DN32 7EG

A G E N D A

The Volunteer Development Service & the Managers Network are all here to help you.

So please bring along your ideas and challenges for discussion!

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Update:  On new Safeguarding Resources shared by NCVO and others
3. Update:  NCVO have shared lessons learned from Volunteers’ Week and are planning 2020

Our Plans for Volunteer Week 2020

4. Volunteer Handbooks: Good Practice Discussion. We’ve all got Volunteer Handbooks (Hopefully)

There are some national good practice versions. We’ll look at these and compare them to our own.

What can we learn, or what can we change. Ideally bring a copy of your own along to share.

5. 2020 Meetings: What topics/ideas/issues does everyone want to discuss at meetings in 2020?

Networking break

6. Open Forum – Your opportunity to share news

7. AOB

8. Future meeting dates 

The Crime Reduction Fund (CRF) is open for applications now and the third round closing date is

6th December 2019

All the information about the fund and how to apply is here.