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Douglas Valley Lions Club exists to serve all disadvantaged people within our service area and beyond.

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Lions Clubs work to improve health and well-being, strengthen communities, and support those in need. We do this via local fundraising, welfare donations and community service.

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The Peter Lathom Charity

The Peter Lathom Charity is a local trust which makes grants to individuals and organisations for the relief of poverty and education/training. The current trustees work to proactively identify recipients...

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West Lancashire Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) is a charity, set up in 1973, and is the key infrastructure organisation for voluntary and community groups in West Lancashire. Our main...

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What’s the Buzz?

It's the sound of thousands of people across West Lancs making a difference every day.

It’s people helping their neighbours, volunteers running a community group, faith groups serving their local communities, social enterprises showing ethical ways of doing business.

The voluntary sector in West Lancs has an impressive history of delivering activities and services that have become vital to the well-being of many.

Our Directory showcases this local support and activity, and the CVS is proud to be the key local body supporting and developing this amazing work over the past 50 years.

This is just the start for the Directory– we need you to get involved to make sure all the fantastic groups that make West Lancs such a buzzing place are in it!

  • Send us your info for the Buzz directory - here
  • Amend details already on the Directory - here

About West Lancs CVS

West Lancashire Council for Voluntary Services is a charity, set up in 1973, and is the key infrastructure organisation for voluntary and community groups in West Lancashire.

  • We help local people set up and develop voluntary and community groups, and network with other organisations.
  • We recruit volunteers for local organisations and support people to volunteer through our accredited Volunteer Centre. Find out more here.
  • We represent voluntary and community groups to statutory and other organisations, and partnerships

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