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Immingham Family Hub benefits from plants from Pier Gardens thanks to Green Influencers

Pier Gardens in Immingham is being redeveloped as part of wider Cleethorpes redevelopment, and as a result many of the current plants need to be moved. North East Lincolnshire Council has very helpfully allowed the Green Influencers programme led by VANEL to dig up and take some of the plants to replant as part of […]

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Community Safety events in North Cleethorpes

VANEL run community safety events, drop-ins or attend other events with stands. Find out more and find out about our upcoming drop-ins

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National Trustee Week

This week has been National Trustees Week. It’s an annual reminder of the importance of Trustees and a chance to think about your board, your governance approach and your trustees themselves. Like all charities, VANEL is reliant on a group of volunteers – our Trustees – to help oversee and steer the organisation over the […]

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Youth volunteering in health and care – an opportunity to influence and shape roles

VANEL are seeking information from local groups to help shape a “youth volunteering toolkit”. Please let us know what what youth volunteering looks like in your organisation.

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Our Green Influencers are getting ready for Summer

Green Influencers continues to deliver a range of “Gardening and Craft groups” for children aged 2-5 across North East Lincolnshire. Thanks to a range of funding Sam, Sophie and Rob and Fumiko are regularly running these groups at the Family Hubs across the borough. Most of the groups are now full for September but some […]

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Third Sector trends in North East Lincolnshire

After another long period of ups and downs and twists and turns in the voluntary sector, Third Sector Trends is back to find out what’s going on.  We’d really like you to take part so that we can build a better picture of what is happening across North East Lincolnshire. More about the trends survey […]

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Next week is Volunteers’ Week

2-8th June 2025 is Volunteers’ Week once again. Read about how VANEL and our Volunteer supporting programmes are engaging with the week and how you can too.

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Business Crime Reduction Week

VANEL was supporting a business crime reduction week last week as part of our work with the GRIP community safety initiative. Not heard about it? Read on…

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the staff and trustees at VANEL. Please note that our offices are physically closed from Friday 20th December until we reopen on Thursday 2nd January 2025. Some staff will still be online for some days over the Christmas period and may be answering their emails (but don’t rely on it!) See you […]

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Join us for our Community Get together

Join us on 20th June at 82 Grimsby Road for coffee, cake and a chat at our event organised as part of the Jo Cox Foundation Great Get Together initiative.