 New year, new faces, and more ways to get involved in volunteering!
From an upcoming volunteer meetup to team updates and opportunities across the area – it’s all in the latest Hub Newsletter.  Our latest Annual Impact Report is out now!
Covering the period of April 2024 to March 2025, you'll discover how many hundreds of groups and thousands of people across Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale have been supported by BPRCVS. Click read more to check it out.  The Cancer Awareness Ambassador project is looking for volunteers and work-based champions from hard-to-reach communities to help:
 BPRCVS is delighted to announce the launch of Helping Hands Lottery, an exciting new fundraising initiative for good causes in our local communities. The lottery will be a great way for people to support local good causes and get the chance to win fabulous cash prizes!
Click 'read more' to discover how to sign up for our upcoming launch event.  The BPRCVS Working Group is back for its second session! Join us on Thursday 23rd October, 10am – 12noon at The CVS Centre, Burnley.
We’ll be reviewing our monitoring and evaluation processes to make them simpler, easier, and more accessible for you and the people you support.  Join BPRCVS Gannow Community Centre for a fun day out exploring independent shops, cafés, bars, the heritage visitor centre, and art gallery at the spectacular Piece Hall, Halifax.
Date: Wednesday 22nd October Leaving Gannow: 9:30 AM Departing Halifax/Piece Hall: 3:30 PM Transport only – minibus Suggested donation: £11.50 Book your spot: Gannow Community Centre CVS Centre, 62-64 Yorkshire St, Burnley BB11 3BT 📞 01282 412096 ✉️ [email protected] Spaces are limited – book early to avoid disappointment!
In August, our teams across East Lancashire continued to make a difference in people’s lives by:
The Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) Small Grants Programme continues to make a real difference across Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale. Delivered locally by BPRCVS, the scheme funds grassroots projects that improve health, wellbeing, and community connections.   Marking 90 Years of Service to Burnley, Pendle & Rossendale
In a world that has grown increasingly complex, uncertain, and at times fragmented, the role of community has taken on new weight. For BPRCVS, community has never been a buzzword, but a bedrock principle. Over the last 90 years, from the Great Depression to the Digital Age, its commitment to grassroots care and collaboration has remained unchanged. The 2010s were a decade of paradoxes. On one hand, we saw unprecedented technological advancement - smartphones in every pocket, instant access to global knowledge, social media bringing us closer (and sometimes further apart). On the other, many people across East Lancashire and beyond were experiencing a growing sense of disconnection, marginalisation, and economic strain.  Support Burnley, Pendle & Rossendale Council for Voluntary Service (BPRCVS) without spending an extra penny!
When you shop online for groceries, gifts, clothes, or even book a holiday, over 8,000+ retailers – including Tesco, M&S, John Lewis, eBay, Argos, ASOS, Booking.com and more – will donate to BPRCVS for FREE through easyfundraising. The LACVS volunteering for Health programme would like to invite you to our first monthly Lancashire-12 Volunteer Managers Forum on Teams on Tuesday July 29th at 10am. This is FREE and open to all volunteer-including groups and organisations within the 12 non-unitary areas of Lancashire. If you are interested in being part of the work currently happening to develop a Vision for Volunteering for Lancashire -12, enabling volunteer best practice and other Lancashire wide initiatives [which will affect all areas of Lancashire], then please join us to have your voice heard.   During August we will be hosting a Free certified course around creating a space for decision making through wellbeing. It starts at 9am on Friday 1st August for 4 weeks at 62-64 Yorkshire St.
As the new millennium dawned, the Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Council for Voluntary Service (BPRCVS) stood at a crossroads carrying forward the legacy of civic compassion built over seven decades, while stepping into an era defined by digital change, shifting public policy, and growing social complexity. The 2000s were anything but predictable. Across the UK, the charity and voluntary sector underwent a period of rapid transformation, driven by New Labour’s focus on community cohesion, public sector reform, and the increasing role of civil society in delivering frontline services. Amidst this national recalibration, BPRCVS emerged not as a passive bystander but as a proactive, dynamic force for local good. While public discourse swirled around targets, funding models and outcomes frameworks, BPRCVS remained grounded in the human side of community life listening to neighbours, empowering volunteers, supporting carers, and connecting the overlooked and the underserved. |
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