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Our youth employability project, the YES Project, is one of the finalists in The 25th Birthday National Lottery Awards and we need your votes to win.

A LEICESTER charity that trains dogs that help their owners’ mental health and wellbeing is seeking the public’s support for a project that will make walkies even more fun in the future.

If you’re looking for somewhere different to visit with your group why not come to our ‘Paws-a-While’ garden?

The prestigious Everybody’s Reading will be taking place this autumn – and community and voluntary groups are being urged to stage events.

On 30 April, two colleagues from NCVO, Lev Pedro and Roshni Mistry, spent a productive day in Leicester gathering insight and intelligence to inform their work.

Volunteering contributes an estimated £22.6bn to the UK economy. Every year thousands of people across the UK celebrate National Volunteers’ Week which takes place from 1-7th June.  This Volunteers Week was a busy one at VAL, from meeting people and talking to them about volunteering and their experiences, at the Riverside Festival to volunteer speed dating and chatting online.

Volunteers Week is a time to say thank you for the amazing contribution that volunteers make.

This is the highest award that can be given to voluntary groups across the UK, and you could help more Leicestershire groups win this prestigious award. So, if you know of a deserving group, perhaps because you have benefitted from their service, then why not nominate them now!