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WHILE nearly every community has a local sports clubs – do you know how you might improve or upgrade it? Sport England has funding available to help local groups and organisations do just that and they are targeting Cornwall specifically.

Click here to find out more

Volunteer Cornwall wants to know what YOU think of our service. We have designed a short, on-line questionairre so you can tell us your views and help us get better.

Volunteers / individuals click – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C8MBCKF

Host organisations click – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CL86836

Surveys close 10th February 2012

Senior police officers from Cornwall have spent the day volunteering in Camborne in an event organised by Volunteer Cornwall. Part of our work includes encouraging employers to release staff for volunteering as a way of training and developing teams and individuals. We were delighted when the Senior Management Team for Cornwall Policing asked us to arrange a volunteering day for them and as you can read from this BBC report, they spent the day helping residents of the Pengegon Estate in Camborne with a spring clean.

Recently, several Cornish organisations from the public and voluntary sector successfully bid for funding from the government’s Warm Homes, Healthy People Fund. Some of that money has been used to produce a Guide to Winter Wellbeing. Click below to download a copy of the guide and find out how you can look after your health this winter.

Winter wellbeing A5 booklet -FINAL

Just a quick reminder that our survey for uniformed youth groups (cadets, scouts etc) closes on 25th January. If you haven’t yet completed it, but would like to do so, please click here.

This will help us plan and deliver a recruitment campaign for adult volunteers for you and similar organisations.

Organisations who use volunteers to deliver some or all of their services, but who struggle to find the resources for volunteer management, may be interested in this national debate and good practice tips.

Click here for tips on managing volunteers on a tight budget

The enclosed papers were presented to the Council VCS Commissioning Board, also in attendance were the the Primary Care Trust. Interesting discussions due to take place in the future on measuring impact and multiple outcomes.Next meeting January 26th.

Agenda December 16 2011

Minutes amended 11 11 11

ACTION SHEET 11 11 11 amended

Social Impact Fund summary dec 11

SIB 1

SIB 2

CYP briefing notes for VCS Commissioning Board 161211

Children Key Asks finaldraft111211

Commissioning Voluntary and Community Sector support services dec 11

Collaboration Workshops_1

Commissioning Team Update Nov 2011

Prevention Diagram v0 1KA

On Friday 27th January at 11am we will be formally opening the Truro Well Being Centre with the Mayor of Truro.

If you havent been to the Centre yet, it is in the old Tourist Information Office on Boscawen St in the heart of Truro and is somewhere you can go to find out about the massive range of activities and resources in and around Truro which can help you improve your physical and mental health and well being.

To find out more, click here

We are seeking the views of our users on how well we are doing and how we can do even more to meet your needs. Please take a few moments to complete our short, online survey to let us know what you think of the service we provide.

If you are (or are in the process of becoming) a volunteer, please click here

If you are an organisation that uses us to help find volunteers please click here.

Thank you in advance for your help and we will let you know, via the website, of the outcome of the survey.

Volunteer Cornwall is hoping to launch a recruitment campaign in the new year for adult volunteers for uniformed youth services (Guides, Scouts, Cadets etc). In order to get a better understanding of the county-wide picture, we are asking existing organisers of such groups to complete a short survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DM73Y9L