As the festive season is fast approaching, we'd like to take this opportunity to tell you about our Christmassy plans at Venus, Our Place and our project in Halton.
The Venus Children's Christmas Party is from 1.30 - 3.30pm on Tuesday 22nd December 2015. This party is for families who have received support from Venus in the last year. If you would like to put your family's name down for the party then please call into Venus, or telephone us on 0151 474 4744.
We are delighted to have started our 6 week volunteer training course this week! Here's our Clare, who ran the first week's training, to give you the low down on what happened on the first week and how you can get involved if you're interested...
As you know, we facilitate placements for students here at Venus and at Our Place. Students are placed with us for different lengths of time dependent upon the course theyre on and what stage theyre at with their course. We asked one of our latest students, Fran, to introduce herself and Coleen and tell us a little bit more about their experience...
Hello Everybody!
This is a slightly overdue introduction to Me (Fran) and Colleen as we have been at Venus for 3 weeks already!
Hi everyone, we hope you're all having a lovely day! We just wanted to take a moment to say a HUGE thank you to all the businesses and organisations who have helped us by donating money and resources to our Money Management Programme this year! We have been able to help so many disadvantaged and vulnerable people thanks to all of you, and we can't tell you how grateful we all are!
Once again we're turning our blog over to our bezzys down at Our Place, Sefton Care Leavers Centre. If you'd like to know more or make a referral, dont hesitate to contact David, Jo Lee or Stef at the Centre. Now, over to Stef for some news on whats been happening this week...
Hi all! This week at Our Place has been a busy one!
Hi all! So it’s January and we’re all back in work, full of roast dinner and ready to take on 2015! However before we get on to the future, we’d just like to take a moment and look back on the Christmas season to say a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who donated, volunteered, spread the word, came along and generally helped make Our Place’s first Christmas one to remember!
During the summer holiday period, here at Venus we try to raise additional funds to our everyday funded services so that we can provide opportunities for families to spend some quality time together, enjoying new experiences and going to new places.
Over 130 Mums and Kids have just returned from the Venus Annual Summer Residential 2014 in sunny Presthaven Sands.
We arrived at the site on Monday afternoon and after a relatively smooth check in process followed by a short time familiarising ourselves with the site, happy and excited mums and kids started to relax and enjoy the amenities of the park in Welsh sunshine.
As you know from our previous blog posts, we successfully host social work student placements from Universities from around the region, including Liverpool John Moores, Liverpool Hope and Salford Universities. We also host high school student placements for their work experience modules through year 10 and have had students here from local schools such as the Hawthornes and Chesterfield. Throughout the last two weeks, we were happy to host Kaitlyn as our resident work experience student.
We've posted before about our Social Work Student Placements and how helpful they are to the work we do. Maeve recently left us after her placement and we asked her to share her thoughts and experiences with us here. We love sharing our experience and work with students and are really happy when it works out well. Tell us in the comments section what you think about student placements. Over to Maeve...
