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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!

VAL received funding from People’s Health Trust with money raised through Health Lottery East Midlands to support the promotion of the Active Communities programme to reach locally-led organisations, and help them to submit quality applications to the Trust.

Every year, the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) surveys charity leaders to understand the challenges they face, and to assess the impact these challenges have on the sector’s ability to meet the needs of its beneficiaries. 

On Wednesday 10 April VALUES is holding a launch party to celebrate the opening of a second site at Danbury Gardens Extra Care Housing in Humberstone.