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We provide homelessness and housing support, counselling services, well-being activities, and mental health support, including - Counselling service for young people and adults - Mental health support for a range...

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We aim to be a welcoming, worshipping & witnessing church in the heart of the Community. We provide support with a Food bank, Benefit & Debt Advice, Pastoral Care, Buggy...

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We are a social enterprise based in North Lancashire offering households free advice and support with energy issues. Our aims are to help people stay warm and well, and to...

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Hesketh with Becconsall, All Saints Parish Church

The vicar runs a small scale foodbank from the Rectory, with food donated by Church members. He is a trained Counsellor and helps anyone who asks.

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If you have been a victim of crime, whether recently or in the past, we are here to help. We provide emotional support, information and practical help, regardless of whether...

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We provide nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are referred to us in crisis. We are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks, supported by The...

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We offer 3-day emergency food parcels to those in desperate need. We work closely with clients to improve their financial situation, with the aim to remove their need for foodbanks...

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We partner with local charities, community groups, schools, professionals to distribute essential items to people in need. The Brick is an anti-poverty charity offering services to people at risk of...

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We work to reduce poverty in North West through the provision of clothing, furniture, food, toiletries and to reduce social isolation through various other activities.

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Up Holland Community Hub is modern venue for the wider community, based in St Thomas the Martyr Parish Church, Up Holland. The historic church building is being developed into a...

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The Food Pantry is a weekly food club, run twice a week in Tarleton and Banks. Members pay £5 each time they shop and can choose around £20 worth of...

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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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