 Welcome to the October edition of Community Foundation for Lancashire's Newsletter
This months newsletter features articles from our Lancashire Investors in Community Annual Dinner including a video showcasing the community shown on the evening. In October, we brought together local businesses to discuss the importance of social responsibility, published a renewed 'Introduction to CFLM' and raised funds at EVA's for the Women's Fund. Thank you for being part of our mission to build a stronger, fairer Lancashire.  See what we've been up to this October🍂
The year is truly flying by, but the work at Healthwatch Lancashire doesn't stop! This month, we have been talking to the community about their plans for ageing and we launched our Accessible Information Standards campaign in collaboration with Healthwatch Westmorland and Furness! Scroll to find out more👇  The November edition of the Rossendale community bulletin with information about activities and services in Rossendale.
We would like to formally invite you to the NAVCA AGM, which will be held on Thursday 13th November 2025, 10am-11am, online via Zoom. All NAVCA members are welcome to join us. To reserve your place, please sign up via the NAVCA website and add the event to your calendar. The NAVCA AGM is an opportunity to reflect on the year and to influence NAVCA's strategic direction. You will have the opportunity to hear from the NAVCA board and to ask questions. This year, we have five trustee nominations and two spaces on the board, so voting will take place in the week leading up to the AGM. Full voting information will be sent to CEOs. 
The latest Burnley & District U3A newsletter is out, featuring updates, activities, and events for the coming months.
 Lucy's Autumn Update As a Community Interest Company (CIC), our sole purpose is to serve and benefit the community. All of our funding, along with any income from private work, is reinvested into our mission of breaking the cycle of domestic abuse through awareness, prevention and early intervention.
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Neighbourhood Watch annual conference This year our annual conference was hosted online. Featuring sessions on neighbourhood policing and crime prevention. We shared the charity's new strategy, and celebrated the volunteer recognition awards. Thanks to everyone who joined, our speakers and our sponsors ERA and SimpliSafe who made the event possible. Find event slides and videos on our website.  Highlights include:
Autumn/Winter Edition Magazine>> We produce a monthly bulletin with our health and community partners to keep you updated on the community support and activities happening across Rossendale. This includes information from our community groups, events, health information, grants and community training opportunities. We hope you will find the bulletin useful. All published Community Bulletins are available on our website - Community Bulletins Feel free to share the bulletin with friends, community groups and on your own social media. If you have any information that you would like to share in our next bulletin, or you would like to be added to the e-mail distribution list, email us at [email protected]   Allow us to re-introduce ourselves…
From 1st October 2025, drug and alcohol services across Lancashire will come together as a single, county-wide service: Inspire Lancashire, delivered by Change Grow Live. You may have known us previously as Inspire East Lancashire or Inspire North and Central Lancashire — now, we’re joining forces under one name to offer a more joined-up, consistent approach. Our vision is clear: to integrate our teams and elevate the support we offer. We’re not here to reinvent the incredible work already happening — instead, we’re building on what’s strong, identifying where we can improve, and raising the bar in how we support the people and communities we serve. Welcome to the Autumn 2025 Think CO e-newsletter from the Gas Safe Charity. Autumn seems to have arrived early in many parts of the UK. Leaves have started turning yellow and blackberries have become overripe. Even though the summer warmth has left us, people probably haven’t put their boilers back on or lit their coal fire just yet. Early autumn is an excellent time to get gas and other appliances serviced and to have chimneys and flues swept before they get used for the first time in months – Think CO’s top tip. In your role as a CO aware worker or volunteer, it’s a great opportunity to remind your clients to get this done or to chase landlords for a tenant’s annual gas safety check if it hasn’t been done in the last year.  Another month gone by and suddenly Autumn is upon us.
It's not officially Autumn yet, but the weather is telling us something else. We have been very fortunate in having a long spell of summer weather, so it's now time to dig out the woolly jumpers and waterproofs. I shall certainly be packing an abundance of these in readiness for a trip to the Isle of Mull. As many of you probably know, Scotland can give you all 4 seasons in one day! Fingers crossed for some decent weather. I recently saw a news items advising people on how to plan for Christmas. Yes, apparently it is only four pay slips or pension payments away! It does bring home how soon the expensive season will be upon us. The Craft group will be making Christmas items, such as boxes, bags and, more importantly, chocolate truffles to put in the boxes. Doubt they will last until then! The knitting group is also looking at producing festive themed items. All sounds very interesting. Good Things Foundation update - what have we been up to.  Here’s a quick round-up of what we’ve been working on recently to drive digital inclusion forward:
 As we move into autumn, we’re poised to highlight the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) with National Inclusion Week – a timely reminder of the role we all play in creating a fairer, more inclusive voluntary sector.
We will also be at the Labour Party conference at the end of September, showcasing the impact of our members as well as lobbying for a better partnership between government and civil society, building understanding of the Civil Society Covenant, and positioning voluntary organisations and charities as a critical partner in creating change together. For more on both of these, and others, in this edition of Membership Matters we also share a number of exclusive offers and events coming up for our members including: expert-led webinars, wellbeing support, details of our Annual General Meeting, and the launch of the Civil Society Almanac 2025.  It has been a difficult few weeks, with a rise in racist incidents and a sense that such behaviour is becoming more normalised.
The far right rally in London at the weekend drew around 110,000 people and gave a voice to racist hatred. In communities nationwide, hate crime is increasing, alongside a worrying perception that it is acceptable to single out people who ‘don’t look British.’ Union Jack and St. George flags have been used as a symbol of far right support, with an insidious veneer of “but it's our national flag” in the face of criticism. It is scary, unnerving, and threatening. Many of you will have experienced aggression, or be supporting people who have. You’ll see communities feeling unsafe, feeling frustration with the wider establishment response, or feeling unsure about what we can do. Our role as local infrastructure organisations is to support strong, united communities, which is more important than ever. We are here to listen to and support people, and to build a sense of a shared, positive, inclusive place. We can focus on the positive, call out the aggression, and amplify anti-racist voices. I have been looking for people and places offering me hope, and we can do the same in our roles. Bolstering each other and our community is our superpower right now. I have attached some thinking from the Emergencies Partnership team as they too call out the threat of violence and reality of unrest. This is an internal tool for the Emergencies Partnership team, but might be useful to inform your thinking. I also wanted to share this useful guide from New Ways - When Hate Spills Into Workplaces - A Leaders Guide. It has practical, active steps we can take, and is a piece I certainly find useful to reflect on. It's easy to feel inadequate, and that whatever we do is insufficient in the face of such significant problems. Let’s know that what we has impact, and know that what we do to support inclusive, resilient, thriving communities matters.  below is the August newsletter. As with previous editions, readers are encouraged to share it with anyone who may benefit from its contents.
The newsletter includes the latest updates from VIC, and all back copies are available to view on the organisation’s website. Further news and information are regularly posted on the VIC Facebook page and group. For those who require printed copies, the team can be contacted on 01706 833180. Digital copies of all newsletters, along with the latest news, can also be downloaded from the VIC website. Both the website and Facebook page are updated regularly with further details on VIC’s services and activities. First up, volunteering! In consulting with members around the new RVS volunteering platform, we heard that members would like us to create a campaign that showcases the importance of local infrastructure in supporting volunteering in communities. We are starting to make plans, but we need your input and ideas? Firstly, we are gathering information about what you do around volunteering, how many roles you advertise, how many VCSE groups you support, and more. This will help us to paint a picture of how crucial NAVCA members are in nurturing a thriving and inclusive volunteering culture locally. Secondly, if you can contribute to our campaign, we'd like to hear from you. Jump to the section below to find out how to feed back - we'd love to hear from you.
We've also been planning our autumn/winter training series, where we're hosting a series of training sessions for NAVCA members, to help you develop your skills and support your local voluntary sector. I'm so pleased to see that our session with the Charity Commission has been popular - there are still a few spaces left, so book your place today to avoid missing out. Myself and Lydia, our Projects Officer, have been working on making sure that our regular network meetings (such as volunteering, anti-racism, and climate) are as useful to members as possible. We have a volunteering meeting and an anti-racism meeting next week, and we'd love to see you there. And in another of our regular policy-orientated member conversations, we’re hoping you’ll join us to dig into the findings of recently released DCMS research into Local Civil Society Infrastructure. There's a lot going on, so do check out the NAVCA website Member Hub, where you can chat to other members, download hundreds of free resources, and sign up for all NAVCA events. Burnley Bondholders - if you have any good news stories, successes or have an idea for positive PR but aren't sure where to start, send your ideas to [email protected] and we'll support you in shouting about it.  The Rossendale Family Hubs September Newsletter is here! This month’s issue includes: Updates on the new Early Help Strategy Meet the Family Hub team – including our new Navigator and Support Workers Free flu vaccinations for 2- & 3-year-olds Stress Control Workshops from NHS Talking Therapies Better Habits sessions with Rossendale Leisure Trust Upcoming groups like Café & Connect, Baby Massage, and more  |
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