Tue 15 Jun 2021
Lichfield Arts brings joy and inspiration to the community through the many festivals, concerts, cultural events and outreach initiatives it puts on throughout the year. As a charity our most valuable asset is our wonderful team of volunteers, who get involved in everything from stage management to fundraising and without whom the charity would simply cease to exist.
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Fri 11 Jun 2021
We are recruiting volunteers in the Lichfield district and East Staffs area to help deliver the Trent Valley Way and circular footpaths projects within the Transforming the Trent Valley scheme area. Volunteers will walk potential and confirmed routes for monitoring and surveying.
If you are interested in walking and would like to get involved, it would be great to hear from you. Please contact: alison@trentriverstrust.org or s.cheshire@staffs-wildlife.org.uk
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Wed 2 Jun 2021
It is a fitting time that in Volunteer's Week the winners of the 2021 Queen's Award for Voluntary Service have been announced and the list of this years 241 awardees includes 6 Support Staffordshire members.
We are proud of all our members and having worked closely with the recipients through the Covid-19 pandemic we know that an extraordinary amount of tireless voluntary work has gone into supporting the communities of these 6 amazing groups.
The winners are as follows:
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Tue 1 Jun 2021
We’re looking for more than 13,000 spirited, dedicated and dynamic volunteers to be the heartbeat of the Commonwealth Games, a community of passionate people coming together to help deliver the biggest sporting and cultural event the West Midlands has ever seen.
Birmingham and the West Midlands is a community of communities, home to more than 180 nationalities. The Commonwealth Collective will represent the vibrancy and diversity of our people at Birmingham 2022, a home Games for every nation.
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Tue 1 Jun 2021
I have spoken on several occasions over the years about the value of local. This month I want to pick out a specific reason that local is so much better than highly centralised, top down programmes: learning from mistakes.
But first I will say that I am prompted to write about this, at this time because of the recent start of Covid-19 inquiries and some of the associated revelations. Reflecting on the explosive evidence given to MPs by Dominic Cummings last week, we learnt that:
1. Central Government didn’t have robust plans for a pandemic emergency.
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Tue 1 Jun 2021
More than a thousand volunteers from all walks of life are being praised for their unique contribution to Staffordshire’s library network.
Community groups, a health trust, and the first Rotarians group in the UK, plus many individual volunteers, are contributing the annual equivalent of around £1.2 million of their time to Staffordshire County Council’s library service.
Now 27 of the county’s 43 libraries are managed and run on a day-to-day basis by community managers.
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Tue 25 May 2021
Thousands of patients rely on immunoglobulin medicines for short-term or lifelong diseases and genetic disorders.
The antibody medicines are used to treat people with weak immune systems and a variety of other rare disorders.
NHSBT after a 20 year pause have started to collect plasma for medicines: more information can be found here or to book an appointment call 0300 123 23 23.
Appointments are available now; your local Donor centres are:
Carillion House, Wolverhampton
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Thu 20 May 2021
NHS Blood and Transplant is asking for men between the ages of 17 and 66 to consider donating their blood plasma. Plasma is used to make antibody-based medicines called immunoglobulins, for people with weak immune systems and a variety of other rare disorders. Thousands of patients rely on immunoglobulin medicines for short-term treatment or lifelong diseases.
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Wed 19 May 2021
We know that many community groups and organisations across Staffordshire are working extremely hard to support the people who need it most within our communities.
To help we’re offering grants to groups that can support those who have to self-isolate because of COVID 19.
The grant can be used to help local people who are self-isolating with:
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Mon 17 May 2021
From the 17th May, as we slowly move out of lockdown the 16 Staffordshire County Managed Libraries:
Biddulph, Burntwood, Burton, Cannock, Codsall, Kidsgrove, Leek, Lichfield, Newcastle, Perton, Rugeley, Stafford, Stone, Tamworth, Uttoxeter, and Wombourne will be adding to their current service.
You will be able to choose items via managed browsing. We are currently limiting the number of people who can access our libraries at any one time in order to keep you safe.
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