Now in its 26th year, Volunteers’ Week was in the first instance administered on a local level.
In order to raise the profile of the Week, the National Centre for Volunteering took over the running until 2004 when a new integrated national agency called Volunteering England was formed – together with Volunteer Development England and the Consortium on Opportunities for Volunteering.
Currently the agency is working on a wide range of projects, including the Inspiration and Legacy Project Continue reading ….
Liverpool based Tmesis Theatre return this June with their sixth annual festival of physical workshops and performances, ‘Physical Fest’, the only festival of its kind in Europe. Physical Fest brings the world’s best local, national and international movement and physical theatre artists to Liverpool in an exciting 8 day programme of events, workshops, taster classes and performances. It aims to bring new movement techniques to the city and hosts northwest premiers. The festival is fast becoming one of the international key events in Liverpool’s cultural programme with participants flocking from the national and international community. Continue reading ….
For centuries, countries all over the world have venerated and idealised mothers – and the tradition of Mothering Sunday has always been celebrated in style. Fathers on the other hand didn’t get much of a look in at all!
When the idea of instituting a day to commemorate fathers was first put forward in the USA in 1911, it was met with a certain amount of laughter and derision on the part of the media and public. Why this should have been so is not clear - presumably fathers were deemed far too macho to need any public manifestation of affection…
G-Lamorous Presents have organised a huge fashion catwalk show in aid of the Breast & Cervical Cancer Awareness Campaign http://www.breastcancercampaign.org/ & The Dominique Williams Trust Fund: Presented by the legend himself Mr KEV SEED !!
The need for blood transfusions in the medical world is increasing all the time: incidences include complications of pregnancy (such as an ectopic pregnancy or haemorrhaging), severe anaemia, accident trauma, surgical and cancer patients, or transfusions for conditions like thalasaemia or haemophilia.
The decision to give blood can save a life or indeed lives, and there are numerous heartfelt and grateful testimonies from people around the world who have received life saving transfusions.
Currently the agency is working on a wide range of projects, including the Inspiration and Legacy Project 
A Modern Day Father’s Day 
Save A Life, Give Blood