🎉Well done to everyone at The Brunswick Centre for achieving Quality 4 Health + Wellbeing Level 2 for the second time! 🎉 VAC 🧡 Voluntary Sector Infrastructure Alliance 🧡 #QualityAssurance

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Ey up! Happy Yorkshire Day! 🎉 We're incredibly proud to call this wonderful place our home 🏡 What's your favourite thing about #Yorkshire? For us, it's the amazing people who #ImproveLocalLives every day for our communities 🧡

A new category for this year's Spirit Awards - When We Move, We're Stronger, sponsored by Active Calderdale Do you know a not-for-profit organisation that has embedded physical activity throughout their work, enhancing overall wellbeing for the community? cffc.co.uk/calderdale-com…

Alpha House Calderdale are always so welcoming, I really enjoy my visits with them!😁 A big well done to their latest Skills and Education Group! 🎉

Thousands of people enjoyed the successful return of the People’s Park Festival last week, celebrating the diversity of Calderdale’s culture in partnership with Radio Sangam. Read more👉 news.calderdale.gov.uk/thousands-enjo…

We've put together a list of resources to help community organisations respond to racist violence. It includes how to protect staff, local people and buildings, and how to tackle misinformation. Please share other advice or resources you've found useful. locality.org.uk/responding-to-…

A message from Julie Robinson, CEO of VAC, in response to the recent events across the U.K. cvac.org.uk/2024/08/09/a-m…

Our CEO Julie Robinson responds to the recent Charity Commission research showing that public trust in charities is at a ten-year high. cvac.org.uk/2024/08/19/vac…

Day 9 - You can take the VAC CEO out of Calderdale but you can’t take the #Calderdale50Squared challenge out of the VAC CEO! ❤️ Julie Robinson has been on a well earned summer holiday and doing 50 laps of the villa pool! Active Calderdale

Day 16 of #Calderdale50Squared and Julie Robinson and Jess from Team VAC took part in the Overgate Hospice Midnight Walk this weekend! A big congratulations to everyone who took part! #WhenWeMoveWereStronger

Our CFFC General Grants round supports voluntary-sector organisations with grants up to £5,000. This could be for: • New organisational set-up • Pilot/trialling new ideas • Developing new projects • Continuing existing projects Read more and apply: cffc.co.uk/current-grants…

Test your knowledge on charity finances and other essential topics with our trustee quiz: beingacharitytrustee.campaign.gov.uk/take-the-trust… #CharityFinanceWeek

The weekly CultureDale round up is here! 🤩 ✨BUDDLE WORKSHOPS Oct 22nd - Buddle are offering free online workshops for local sports clubs and community organisations as part of Calderdale’s Year of Culture. This first workshop ‘What is Buddle?’ will act as an introduction to

50 stories published, showcasing the incredible work of 41 different VCSE organisations through the Community Journalist! 🎉 A big thank you to everyone who has shared their stories with us so far 📝✨ Check out the stories here: vsialliance.org.uk/news/?e-filter…

When you go on holiday and come back to find that your team are absolutely smashing it and creating their own stop motion!! #ProudManagerMoment

A huge congratulations to our 8 incredible #VACMembers for their success at last night's Community Foundation for Calderdale Community Spirit Awards! 🎉👏 A special shoutout to all nominees and finalists—you are all truly outstanding and continue to inspire us every day!

It’s #GriefAwarenessWeek, we’ve launched a new guide to support funeral planning. Funeral planning can be costly, but this guide is full of creative, compassionate ways to honour loved ones while keeping expenses manageable 💛 Find out more: cvac.org.uk/2024/12/02/fun…

Skye, our office dog, wanted to wish you all a wonderful festive break and let everyone know the VAC Office will be closed from today until Monday 6th January 2025!