Leaders behind a new project aiming to shape Chesterfield’s future want to hear your ideas on how the town should evolve.
Your Life, Your Chesterfield is a series of interactive online workshops where anyone who cares about our town can have their say about what matters to them.
Everyone who lives, works, runs a business or studies in Chesterfield – or is a regular visitor to the town – is welcome to join in the free workshops on video-conferencing platform Zoom.
Sessions will be held in September, October and November, and to book a place, click here or email community@dva.org.uk
Junction Arts create work with people to improve well-being and inspire change. Junction Arts festivals, workshops and events offer the chance for people to be creative, learn new skills and build stronger communities. Find out all their latest news in their bulletin HERE.
Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) COVID-19 Emergency Fund is now open for applications.
The £1.5m National Emergencies Trust (NET) funding will support grassroots DPOs across the UK, who have found it difficult to access funding, to respond to the COVID-19 needs of Disabled people. The funding will be administered and distributed through a partnership of DPOs across the UK.
A fundraising golf day in Buxton was the best by par – raising more than £5,200 for local hospice care and services.
Over 80 golfers took part in Blythe House Hospicecare’s first event following the COVID-19 lockdown, at Buxton and High Peak Golf Club.
Players came from across the High Peak and beyond for the friendly competition on Friday 4th September, including teams of work colleagues, and members of other golf clubs – helping to raise over £500 more than last year’s event total.
There were prizes for first to fifth place teams, with winners picking up items kindly donated by local companies, including golf bags and game accessories, bottles of whiskey, and vouchers for restaurants, shops and golf courses.
Local businesses also sponsored each of the 18 tees across the course, and hospice supporters donated alcohol for the popular bottle tombola, which raised over £700 on its own.
Becca Gregory, fundraising and events coordinator at Blythe House Hospicecare, said: ‘I would like to thank everyone who got involved in our golf day to make it such a huge success. With it being the hospice’s first event post-lockdown, it was wonderful to see everyone coming together safely to support the cause. There was a fantastic atmosphere throughout the day and the great weather definitely helped!
‘Special thanks go to the team at Buxton and High Peak Golf Club for all of their help in planning the day, including volunteering so much time to help out. I am also incredibly grateful to dedicated hospice volunteers who supported us on the day, and generous residents and businesses who donated money or gifts in kind towards the event.
‘All the money raised will go towards supporting people across our community who are affected by life-limiting illnesses and bereavement, including children and young people.’
Derbyshire Alcohol Advice Service and Derbyshire Recovery Partnership are continuing to offer free drug and alcohol training during this time despite the disruption caused by Covid-19.
Our training is currently being delivered online and we are breaking it down into independent modules. The first modules are available and being offered free now.
We currently have spaces available on the following training
These course are all FREE to health, social and community staff and volunteers working with adults in Derbyshire and can be booked at https://alcoholadvice.eventbrite.com
We are also able to deliver team talks about our drug and alcohol service. Please get in touch for more details – training@daas.uk.com
