Updated
news from the FVAF office
- FVAF annual subscription
for 2013 remains at £10 for which members can get many benefits such as
cheaper photocopying, subsidised training and the equipment hire service
- The portable PA system has
proved its worth as an excellent system for groups holding both indoor and
outdoor meetings and the hearing loop and hearing enhancers are now
getting out to more meetings
- The Local Action Group is still
open to invitations for Expressions of Interest for funding for projects
that fully subscribe to the objectives of the local Rural Development
Programme – but note this programme is coming to its final period of
funding so be quick - contact FVAF for more information
- FVAF training continues to
be able to offer CIEH Level 2 Food Safety (catering) at the affordable
price of £30 per attendee and Emergency First Aid at Work at £35 per
attendee. This includes training and assessment and we always use local
community venues. Contact the office for more information
- Our social gardening
project, now called Strim and Trim, is entering new phases with a second
pilot project in Coleford with volunteers with mental health issues and
also, just agreed by our trustees, the opportunities for employment and
other financially supported activity for our current volunteers. This will
all be provided through our team with Jamie Powell as Support Worker and Rhonda
Hall doing the administration
- Our county Food training programme, funded by the Performance Reward Grant administered by the Gloucestershire
Assembly for the Voluntary and Community Sector, has already delivered
courses across Stroud and the Cotswolds District Council areas and has a
few courses left to deliver
- On a similar theme our Jam
Gym project is just coming to the boil and this will be involving numbers
of volunteers with learning disability making jams, preserves, chutneys
and cordials over the summer period
- Our Forest Care Matters
project, looking at ways groups in the Forest of Dean may benefit from the
personal care budget agenda, is now properly underway with the project
officer, Fiona Woodroffe, starting work in mid-June. This is an exciting
piece of work that we hope will bring greater sustainability to many
groups