Voluntary Action Hinckley & Bosworth
"The Community Hub"

Welcome to Voluntary Action Hinckley & Bosworth the Community Hub.

We aim to provide a range of services to meet the needs of communities within the Hinckley and Bosworth area; providing leadership in partnership and representation work and ensuring that volunteers and voluntary organisations are signposted to all the help available. The Community Hub is the home of the Carers Development Project and the Neighbourhood Management/Stronger Communities Project. These are at the heart of what we do.
The Community Hub - continues in its aim to provide a range of services to meet the needs of the local community. This includes ensuring that local organisations and volunteers get the support they need when accessing volunteering opportunities; and hosting the Carers Development Project and the Neighbourhood Management/Stronger Communities Team.

We actively encourage local volunteering, hosting Voluntary Action LeicesterShire’s (VAL) access point and drop-in sessions. If you are interested in volunteering you can make an appointment to see VAL’s District Volunteer Advisor here at our Waterloo Road Offices or come along to the drop-in on a Tuesday or Thursday morning between 10 am and 1 pm. We also host workers from the V-Involved Team (Leicestershire and Rutland) who promote volunteering especially for young people aged 16-25 years of age. The V-Involved programme can lead to a recognised, accredited award.

Our Carers Project identifies and supports informal carers in the Hinckley & Bosworth area. If you are looking after anyone of any age on a daily basis then you are a carer. You may help someone to wash and dress themselves, give medicines, provide emotional support or generally help someone else get on with their daily life. The Carers’ project workers are here to support you and give information and advice on all aspects of caring.

The Community Hub also hosts the Neighbourhood Management & Stronger Communities Team which is funded by the Local Strategic Partnership. The team works in six specific areas within Barwell, Earl Shilton, Bagworth & Thornton and soon to be Burbage and Hinckley which are known as priority neighbourhoods.

The team supports local people and groups to become more involved in improving their area – highlighting and working on the issues that they say are important to them. From this, action plans are made, developed to bring together the needs of the community and the key issues for the area. The action plans turn ideas and words into actions and reality.