Entries by Sophie Negus

New year new lights for Northampton based charity

Staff at a Northampton based charity will experience a brighter future thanks to an energy efficient office lighting upgrade supported by a grant from Northampton Town Council. Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire, who operate from headquarters on St Giles’ Street, were recently awarded £5,000 from the council’s Climate Change Grant Scheme. The offices are now fitted with […]

VIN is awarded the Community Health Champions Fund

Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire has been awarded the Community Health Champions Funding for the next two years. The Community Health Champion volunteers shall promote healthy lifestyles and have a focus on sharing information on health-related matters, including long-term health conditions, and signpost to the services and support available. Working in partnership with Public Health West Northamptonshire, […]

Connect Northamptonshire Christmas Update

Hello everyone, I wanted to take an opportunity to reflect on the inspiring year that we’ve had on the Connect Northamptonshire Project (funded by the Lottery’s Health Equality Grant – HEG) as we embed the amazing work of our Northamptonshire VCSE sector into the developing Integrated Care System.  Some of the main highlights for me […]

A View from the Turret – Its Christmas 2023

It’s about 10 days to Christmas, and can I take this opportunity to wish you all well. I hope you are all looking forward to a well-earned rest over the festivities. I find this period is nearly always about reflection: Looking back on the year to date with three months after as everyone moves towards […]

Second Round Launch on Volunteering Opportunities.

West Northamptonshire Council is launching its second round of Grants to create volunteering opportunities. The link to this fund can be found here: Council launch second round of grant funding to create volunteering opportunities in West Northants | West Northamptonshire Council Successes from round one includes: Free 2 Talk CIC who were recently awarded funding […]

£950K grants scheme launched to support community transport initiatives in West Northants

West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) has launched a new £950k grants scheme to create new and support existing community transport initiatives in West Northants, as well as support the expansion of current grant funded transport projects and services. This grant funding will be available over the financial years 2024/25 and 2025/26 for eligible community transport projects […]

Warm this Winter

Northamptonshire Community Foundation have launched their annual Warm this Winter Appeal to tackle fuel poverty and to keep the older and vulnerable residents who are experiencing financial hardship across our county fed, warm and well as the cold weather hits. This appeal has been running every winter since 2010 and has raised over £255,000 to […]

A View From The Turret On VINs AGM

VINs Annual General Meeting 2023 VINs Annual General Meeting took place on the 9th of November 2023. The AGM PowerPoint can be seen here The AGM Minutes can be seen here Our Annual Snapshot can be seen here Our certified Accounts will be posted in due course So why you ask is an Annual General Meeting […]

Annual Snapshot 2022/2023

VIN’s Annual Snapshot (2022/2023) is now available and can be viewed here.  The VIN CEO states: It’ always difficult to define the level of detail required for our Annual Review. As an organisation we want the content to be as clear and concise as possible yet provide readers with an understanding of our Infrastructure Role […]