Our Organisations

Our BFriend project is dedicated to combat social isolation and loneliness. Our biggest aims are to encourage volunteering, improve social connections and increase pride in local communities.

Please note – To access our new BFriending services, you must be a Blackpool resident over 16 years old

To refer into the service, please email: bfriendreferrals@blackpoolvolunteers.org.uk

To volunteer for the service or to find out more, please contact: pauline@blackpoolvolunteers.org.uk

Through the pandemic Blackpool Council and the Blackpool VCFSE sector have seen the critical value of thriving communities. People helped and supported others around them. Local government and health services developed stronger relationships with their local community, often facilitated by the VCFSE sector. Towns and cities with a thriving VCFSE sector supported by infrastructure organisations were able to put forward a better coordinated, stronger response.

In the current economic climate, small locally based VCFSE organisations need support more than ever and it has been determined that there is a need to increase the capacity of the local VCFSE sector in Blackpool to deliver support to the wider community.

With this in mind, Blackpool Council, through the Shared Prosperity Fund, has provided financial resources to help build capacity & resilience to the Blackpool VCFSE sector to:

• Attract funding
• Operate good governance
• Recruit, train and manage volunteers
• Influence public service commissioning
• Network across the VCFSE and with relevant statutory bodies and other potential collaborators
• Simply know what’s going on and disseminate knowledge at a local level.

For more information, please contact elaine@blackpoolvolunteers.org.uk

Borrow It Blackpool is a community powered membership scheme from the Volunteer Centre Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde, that takes in community and business donated items so that they can be loaned back out to members for a small fee.

We have four categories of items, (Household, DIY, Gardening and Leisure)

We aim to help Blackpool to reduce waste and create a circular economy where recycling, repairing and swapping items replaces buying and consuming new goods.

Our scheme also offers its members a variety of skills workshops (cooking, DIY, decorating and sewing) that will upskill the community and help them live more cost effectively and sustainably.

To borrow, to sign up or to find out more: www.borrowitblackpool.co.uk

Or please contact matthew@blackpoolvolunteers.org.uk