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Community Mental Health & wellbeing Fund Year 2 Application Form

To celebrate the launch of national Volunteers Week (1st – 7th June), Volunteer Centre Western Isles are launching a new award ‘The Charlie Nicolson Shield for International Volunteering’. This new annual award has been donated by former Councillor Charlie Nicolson to the Volunteer Centre Western Isles to recognise the important contribution volunteers and organisations in the Western Isles make to International volunteering. Charlie said: “I am delighted to work with the Volunteer Centre to help

Would you like to get involved and say THANK YOU to your volunteers? This Volunteers’ Week, Volunteer Centre Western Isles are encouraging everyone to take the time to say ‘Thank You’ to all our volunteers across the Western Isles. Do you know a volunteer that has made a difference or could do with a thank you for all that they do? We would like to help your group/organisation say a huge THANK YOU to all

Community mental health fund supports nearly 2,000 projects. A fund launched last year to tackle the social isolation, loneliness and mental health inequalities made worse by the pandemic, has been awarded a further £15 million. The Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for adults was launched in October last year, and has helped nearly 2,000 community projects to deliver activities and programmes in its first year. It has supported a wide range of projects including