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How often do you use your local pub, village shop, post office, library?
How important are they to you and your community?
Due to changes in our lifestyle habits, the increase in out of town superstores and reductions in public sector funding - how confident can we be that these services will survive? Is it important? And do we need to take action to ensure that they are still here in 5 or 10 years time?
Join the Leicestershire Rural Partnership to explore these dilemmas and consider what communities and partners can do to reverse the downward trend of village services. Speakers include the Plunkett Foundation, Pub is the Hub and Leicestershire County Council library service. More »
The date: Thursday 27th September
The time:9:00 – 12:00(8:30for coffee and croissants)
The venue: Snibston Discovery Centre
Please reserve your place with kate.harvey@leics.gov.uk, 0116 3057016 » Less
The next meeting of the North West Leicestershire Voluntary & Community Forum will be taking place on Wednesday 26th September at Whitwick Youth Centre.
The focus for this forum will be Unemployment and Worklessness and will include speakers from Community Connections, Adult Education Services and Job Centre Plus, along with opportunity to network.
If you would like to attend, please contact Krishna Patel on 0116 257 5048 or email krishna.p@valonline.org.uk. Alternatively you can call the VAL Helpline on 0116 257 5050. More »
For further information about Voluntary Action LeicesterShire you can visit their website VAL Online » Less
HELP - Volunteers Needed
Clockwise Credit Union are looking for volunteers to assist in running their Measham Community Point on Friday mornings at Measham Library. Full training will be provided.
To find out more or to register your interest, please contact the Community Focus Team by emailing community.focus@nwleicestershire.gov.uk or phoning 01530 454567.
East Midlands Ambulance Service would like to extend a warm invitation to you to attend the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Community Engagement Event on Monday, 10 September 2012. The Event will be held at Leicester City Football Club, King Power Stadium, Filbert Way, Leicester, LE2 7FL between 09:30 and 13:30 hours. It will be an opportunity to understand what your ambulance service does every day, how we work now and how we know we need to work in the near future. Following this event East Midlands Ambulance Service will be holding the Annual General Meeting from 14:00 hours where you will hear from Jon Towler, Chairman and Phil Milligan, CEO. Both events are free and open to the public – you are welcome to attend for all or part of the day. More »
The Community Engagement Event will focus on the division which covers Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. There will be presentations, discussion sessions, opportunities for mini health checks, new ambulance vehicles showing our level of resource and real life stories from the heroes at the frontline of our organisation delivering care, first on scene, every day.
A buffet lunch will be provided. Places are limited, so please RSVP by Friday 31 August 2012 and outline any disability, dietary or special requirements.
If you are interested in attending or would like more details please contact Gulnaz Katchi on 0116 286 9378, gulnaz.katchi@emas.nhs.uk or Kay Smith on 0115 884 5002, kay.smith@emas.nhs.uk. » Less
