INSIDE: New County-wide Infrastructure support service will come into effect from April 2009
Multi-Area Agreement
Social Capital
Charnwood Gardening Pro jet
Mike Manning, a tribute
Charnwood Carers' Service
Older People - are you getting all you should?
Area Forums
Celebrating 30 years of the Charnwood Mental Health Forum
v-inspired project
The Alice Hawkins Heritage Project
Age Concern's Handyman Service
Do you care for an older person with a hearing loss?
Holidays for the over 50s
The Bridge - Young person resource pack
Twinning news
Community Leicestershire Arthritis Self-Help e-learning project
Extended Schools Services
Shepshed Toy Library
Coping with Cancer's Children and Young People's services
Help your hospitals to help you
Mary's 100th birthday
Charnwood Arts Big Knitting Group
VA Charnwood Events

Chief Executive's update
PQASSO, Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations
Volunteering
Charnwood Carers' Service
Gardening Project
Developing Community Health Services
Leicestershire and Rutland Community Safer Sex Project
Learning Events at VA Charnwood
Volunteering with Home-Start
Anstey & Glenfield Cricket Club
Loughborough Cancer Self Help Group
Mental Capactity ~Act
Web Training via ProHelp
Coping with Cancer - volunteers required
Events

Thanks for your feedback – analysis of information from survey
Voluntary sector infrastructure organisations - tendering ahead
Opportunities for you to be involved in local decision-making
Area Forums & Charnwood Together - local strategic partnership
John Storer House
Charnwood Gardening Project
Volunteering in Loughborough and Shepshed
Voluntary Action Charnwood’s pedometer challenge
Funding and volunteers to start youth club in Seagrave
Resolution Stop Smoking Service
Membership of University Hospitals of Leicester - help your hospitals to help you
The Baldwin Trust ready for 2008 season
Nottingham Community Housing Assn. to join the Foyer Federation
International Women’s Day
Community Challenge - to knit a picnic!
“Twinned with…..”
Great Central Railway - help Quorn bloom!
Move Forward Project
Specialist Domestic Violence Court
Loughborough Women’s Aid
Hoton Playing Field community project
Loughborough Greenfield's Sports and Social Club
Up for a challenge!
Prince’s Trust Team
Have a Go Day of Sport
Black & Minority Ethnic Community Development Project Happiness Workshop LOOK good, FEEL good be HAPPY!
Charnwood Juggling Club
Charnwood Racial Equality Council Further consultation on all equalities
Coping with Cancer
Events

Opportunities for you to be involved in local decision-making
The latest on the Infrastructure Review
Leicestershire Together and Leicestershire Local Area Agreement
How you can be involved in Area Forums
John Storer House
Charnwood Gardening Project
25 years of volunteering in Shepshed
Community Safer Sex Project seven years on
Syston meeting looking at issues concerning young people
South Croxton... the village on the Hill
Discrimination and/ or abuse because of Age and Disability is a crime.
Charnwood Arts needs you!
Bill Brookman Foundation
Making the most of your community website
Introducing Abbeyfield
Home-Start Charnwood - making a difference for local families
Local Resilience Forum
Decontamination DVD
Do you recycle your printer cartridges?
Prince's Trust Team 12 week programme of personal development for 16-25 year olds.
Have a Go Day of Sport
Extended Schools
Recycle your mobile phone
Who decides whtn you can't - The Mental Capacity Act
Events

INSIDE:
Influence the delivery of future voluntary and community sector infrastucture support services;
Models of partnership working;
Participate in a consultation about future public spending;
Charnwood Together – local strategic partnership;
Health and Well-being update;
New premises to replace John Storer House;
A new start for the volunteering service;
Syston meeting to look at issues concerning young people;
Charnwood Gardening Project;
Writing histories – a radio drama competition;
Hoton Playing Field community project;
Items needed;
Complete Wasters;
Have your say!;
The Bridge receives recognition from Health For Kids Awards;
Leicestershire’s Voice Citizens' Panel;
Charnwood Arts’ knitting group;
Thurmaston Lights Up!;
Christmas Fayre and Christmas Crib Festival;
Good practice information sheet: Health and safety of volunteers;
Events.

Updates
Models of partnership working; Leicestershire Together and Leicestershire Local Area Agreement;
Charnwood Together – local strategic partnership;
Carers Week 2007;
News from John Storer House;
Live It Up: Come and Celebrate Older Age!Gardening Project;
Social Capital in Charnwood;
Leicestershire and Rutland Community Safer Sex Project;
Prince’s Trust “Team” programme in Loughborough;
Breast Cancer Care;
Success leads to disability charity setting up a local branch of Ryder Cheshire;
Fancy a challenge for the Red Cross?;
News from the Bridge;
Loughborough Mela;
Genetics in the community;
Funding and Awards;
Types of Insurance Policy: which cover volunteers?
How to write a volunteer policy.

Welcome to the new edition!
News about John Storer House.
Models of partnership working.
Charnwood Health and Well-being Partnership.
Increasing statutory colleagues' awareness of the Voluntary and Community Sector, VCS.
Leicestershire Together and Leicestershire Local Area Agreement, LAA.
For and about representatives for the VCS.
Charnwood Together - local strategic partnership board and sub-groups.
Briefings to raise the VCS' awareness.
Examples of VCS' effectiveness in partnership.
Introducing the new Skills Coaching Service available from the Learning and Work Advisor.
Charnwood Community Transport Service.
Charnwood Gardening Project.
A volunteering experience.
Prince's Trust
Local Shelthorpe residents are looking to do more for their community.
20 to Help us 2 Help at CAB.
Local Faiths come Faith2Faith
Leicestershire Funding Toolkit
How to say 'thank you' to volunteers.
Resources, good practice, financial and administrative management.
Victim Support change of address.
Free learning and skills events
Events at Seagrave Memorial Hall
Volunteering opportunities at Glebe House project.
Events.

Voluntary Sector Involvement within Health & Social Care; Network Meeting Dates & Events; Merger Update; Voluntary Action's New Work Plan and Charnword Going Quarterly; Staff Changes; Local Network Fund and BBC Children in Need Presentations; Spring has Spung!; Wheelchair 100; Healthy Thurmaston Beats the Blizzards!; Introducing Leicestershire Carers & ProHelp; People in Harmony - Loughborough Mela 2007; RNIB East Midlands and East; Family Learning Days Leicestershire Libraries; Link Worker for BME people with Learning Disabilities; Volunteers Needed to Help Market VA's Services; Information and Resources

INSIDE: Welcome to a New Year and -
Voluntary Action Charnwood; Merger Details; Practice Based Commissioning; Carers; Charnwood Mentoring Scheme; Life for the Old School in Thurmaston; Charnwood Mental Health Befriending Scheme; News From The Bridge; Information & Resources; Network and meeting dates.

INSIDE:Workshops for Volunteer Co-ordinators; Is Procurement Coming Our Way? Charnwood Community Transport; Autumn - Winter Gardening Project News; Volunteering Leicestershire Website; Exploring Volunteering; Clockwise Credit Union; Resources; Glebe House Project; The Bridge - Christmas Shelter and New Address; Network Meeting Dates and Events

INSIDE: Charnwood Community Development Forum;Gardening Project; Clueless About CAMHS?; Time to Think Positive About Age; Mapping the Voluntary Sector; Update on Guidelines on Volunteer Lunch Expenses; Funding and Resources; Changes to the PCT; Choose and Book Your NHS Hospital or Clinic; World Mental Health Day - October 10th; Meeting Dates and Events. STOP PRESS: New Date for Sector Liaison Forum; Charnwood CVS Change of Website and Email Address; CVS Holds Finding the Funds Sessions in Villages Across Charnwood; Volunteer Organisers' Forum meeting Payment and Perks: what you can offer volunteers.

The Mela is coming to Southfields Park on 3rd of September; Calling all Representatives - planning, commissioning and delivering public services; Empowering Communities; What's New on the CVS Electronic Information Front; Community Development Forum; The New Volunteer Centre Manager Introduces herself; Message in A Bottle - Emergency Information Scheme; New Publication: The Story of the Dispensary and Hospital in Loughborough, 1819-2003; Training in Mental Health for Everyone; Age Concern - Call for Volunteers - Care Home Advocacy Project; Searching for Grants Just Got Easier; Funding and Resources; Network Meeting Dates and Events

Raising Standards at CVS; Raising Standards at CVS: Loughborough Voluntary Action Centre LVAC, Capacity Building, External Accreditation; Gardening Project; Advice on Learning and Work - In Partnership with Nextstep; Nextstep's Personal Development Course; Mela 2006, Sunday 3 September; Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers the Pathway to Leisure and Learning for Disabled People Starts Here...; Volunteers Needed to Support Farmers: Farm Crisis Network; Listening in Charnwood... The Citizen's Panel; Complete Wasters - Eco-centre; Age Matters - New Group; Victim Support Charnwood; Take This Opportunity Get Involved in the Patient and Public Involvement in Health Forum for Charnwood & North West Leicestershire; Shepshed Community Forum; Pro Help; Funding and Resources; Network Meeting Dates & Events

Inside: Changes to Local Health Provision Consultation; Shepshed Community Forum; Funder Finder Sessions in Shepshed; Funder Finder is at Charnwood CVS and will be Available Elsewhere in the Borough Soon; Charnwood Community Development Forum; John Storer House 40th Anniversary; Proposed Bed Closure Consultation Results for Loughborough and Coalville; Volunteer Centre's News and Staff Moving on; Gardening Project Update; Golden Jubilee for Loughborough Twinning; Well-Being Dissected; Getting Your Brain in Shape; Funding; Network Meeting Dates & Events.

Inside: Moves Ahead; Preserving the Things We Value and Changing with the Times; Results of the CVS & JSH User Satisfaction Survey; The CVS Forward Plan;The Sector Liaison Forum; A Forum Update; Health & Social Care Involvement Worker; Local Area Agreements and How it will Affect us Locally; Volunteer Centre News;The Gardening Project; Joining Up Community Transport; The First Loughborough Feast of Faiths; Mencap Leicestershire BME Carers Outreach Project; Meeting Dates and Events. Resources and Funding: Free HR Advice; Idlewild Trust, Community Champions Fund, Big Lottery's Reaching Communities Programme, Rayne Foundation.