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With only 10 DAYS until  the FREE “Forth Valley Cyber Resilience: Why It Should Matter to the Third Sector”, places are going fast! The event is being held by Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise (SVE), CVS Falkirk and Clackmannanshire TSI (CTSI), with support from Scottish Government’s Cyber Resilience Unit and Codebase Stirling, on Friday 26th April, 2pm – 4pm in the Codebase Stirling building at 8 – 10 Corn Exchange Road, Stirling, FK8 2HU. Places are limited to only 30 spaces, with over half gone already, so booking as soon as possible is recommended.

Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise (SVE), CVS Falkirk and Clackmannanshire TSI (CTSI) are holding “Forth Valley Cyber Resilience: Why It Should Matter to the Third Sector”. The session will take place on Friday 26th April, 2pm – 4pm in the Codebase Stirling building at 8 – 10 Corn Exchange Road, Stirling, FK8 2HU. Places are free but limited to 30, so booking is essential.

If you or your organisation has received support from our team at CVS Falkirk in the last 6 months, you will have recently received an email with the link to our feedback survey. We would be grateful if you could assist us in completing the survey most relevant to you.We are always looking for ways to improve our services, so comments and suggestions are welcome. The deadline for responses to both surveys is 12pm on Wednesday 17th April.

Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee has recently launched a major inquiry into the future of primary health care in Scotland. The Committee wants to hear from individuals about what they feel the future of primary health care delivery should look like, and have developed a short online survey to capture their insights. The survey is open until Tuesday 30th April, and should take only 5 minutes to complete. Hard copies are also available on request.

CVS Falkirk and other local groups are hosting a FREE Denny Wellbeing Event on Thursday 11th April, 10am – 2:30pm at Broompark Community Centre, Davies Row, Denny, FK6 6NP. With this event, we aim to provide people with information regarding local services in Denny and Falkirk. A wide variety of groups will be there on the day, along with different activities and a FREE raffle ticket for each attendee.

Falkirk Funders Fayre 2019 was a bustling hubbub of people, meetings and explanations, and we couldn’t be happier with the day!

There’s now only ONE WEEK TO GO until our FREE 2019 Funders Fayre (held in partnership with Falkirk Council), on Tuesday 5th March! We thought we’d take the opportunity to highlight our more of our stallholders who are attending for the first time this year, including: CharityBee, Community Shares Scotland, and Paths for All. Falkirk Funders Fayre 2019 takes place at Bowhouse Community Centre, 130 Bowhouse Road, Grangemouth, FK3 0EU, and is designed to give third sector, charity and voluntary organisations the opportunity to meet with a range of diverse funders and to learn about the various grant funding schemes available.

CVS Falkirk is currently recruiting a Communications Assistant via Community Jobs Scotland (CJS). The position is for 25 hours per week, with a wage in line with the Scottish Living Wage. This particular vacancy is only open to vulnerable unemployed 16 – 29 year olds, as part of CJS. The role will involve assisting with the provision of high quality communication services, enhancing the delivery of services provided to the third sector locally. The closing date for applications is Friday 1st March.

Bookings for Forth Valley Third Sector Conference are now closed; however, you can still keep up with the day itself by following the hashtag #FVConf19 on Twitter, where all three TSIs will be tweeting before and during the event, with pictures, videos and quotes from our attendees, workshop facilitators and stallholders.

This is your LAST CHANCE to book your place at this year’s Forth Valley Third Sector Conference: Growing Your Communities, with bookings closing at 5pm on Wednesday 6th February. The second Forth Valley Third Sector Conference, held in partnership between CVS Falkirk, CTSI and SVE, will take place on Wednesday 13th February at Alva Academy in Clackmannanshire. Tickets are £10 each, covering the cost of lunch provided by a local charitable organisation.