Success at our Fundraising Quiz Night!

5th July 2024

It was a brilliant turn out for our quiz on Friday evening, supported by a number of our Trustees, staff and volunteers, as well as the general public!

Special thanks go to Tripti, our Huntingdon Office Manager, Emma, our Shop Manager and Mike, our Chairman for organising and hosting! The winning team was hosted by our newly appointed Trustee, Natalie!

We raised an amazing £253 from team entries and raffle tickets, with the winning team kindly donating their prize money back to the charity!

Thank you to everyone that attended, and to the team at The Montagu Club in Huntingdon for letting us use the space to host this event!

Huntingdonshire Volunteer Centre AGM 2023 – 2024

27th June 2024

On Thursday 27th June we held our AGM at Hemingford Abbots Village Hall again this year.

Natalie Leigh-Brown was voted in as a new Trustee. Natalie used to be our St Ives Office Manager. Since she left HVC in December 2019 she has decided to join our Board of Trustees! We welcome Natalie back to the team and we look forward to working together again!

After the formal business was carried out we held a short presentation where we showed some client video testimonials followed by videos of some of our wonderful volunteers telling their stories about why they do what they do!
Our Ramsey Trustee and volunteer driver, Steve, then gave everyone a short presentation exhibiting our services and illustrating some useful statistics.

It was great to have a number of external supporters in attendance, including The Mayor of St Ives, Pasco Hussain St Ives Town Council, The Mayor of Huntingdon – Cllr Karl Brockett, Cllr David Landon Cole – Huntingdon North East Ward, The Deputy Mayor of Godmanchester, Cllr Miriam Radford, Cllr Brian Davidson Ramsey Town Council, Kat Shepherdson Deputy CEO of Hunts Forum and Samantha Green of George Hay

Thank you all for your continued support!
A copy of our Trustees Annual Report and our Annual Accounts can be requested by e-mailing: info@huntsvc.org.uk
Well done to all at #teamHVC

Mayor of Huntingdon Visit to celebrate Volunteers Week

7th June 2024

Karl Brockett, the new Mayor of Huntingdon, paid a visit to the HVC Maple Centre office in Huntingdon, to take a look at the hard work that volunteers do in the community.

His visit coincided with National Volunteers Week, which has been celebrated annually on the first Monday in June for 40 years now.

The week aims to inspire people to take up a volunteering role in their local community.

Read the full story here: Mayor of Huntingdon HVC visit to celebrate Volunteers Week | The Hunts Post

Huntingdon Community Radio – Over to you

6th June 2024

Tripti, Manager of our Huntingdon Branch, and Chris, one of our Trustees joined together for a visit to HCR104, where they spoke on the Over to You programme hosted by Judith Barrass. If you didn’t get a chance to listen, follow the link to be able to do so over the next 14 days (you need to choose the Over to You programme dated 6 June). Listen Here

Well done Tripti and Chris!

Huntingdon Office Move

March 2024

Our Huntingdon office, previously based within our Princes Street Charity Shop, ‘Huntingdon Together’ has moved to The Maple Centre, 6 Oak Drive, Huntingdon, PE29 7HN, providing both the shop and Volunteer Centre with much needed additional space.

We have been warmly welcomed by the other organisations based in the building and look forward to building new relationships with them, as well as now having the space to expand on our own services.

St Ives Community Day

Come and find out more about local organisations and community groups. Our St Ives Area Manager Kirsty will be there!

Friday 19th April 2024

10am – 2pm at St Ives Corn Exchange

Click Here for more information

Ramsey Office Move

February 2024

Our Ramsey Office can now be found in the new Town Council Offices, 11 Great Whyte, Ramsey, PE26 1HG

We are very lucky to have been offered a space within the new Town Council Building, providing us with a prominent position in the town and making us much more accessible not only to clients wishing to use our Community Car Scheme, but also to those wishing to find out more about volunteering in the area. We have settled in well and would welcome to to come in and see us in our new home!

Ramsey Town Council Official Opening of New Offices

We were very excited to be invited along to the official opening of the new Ramsey Town Council Offices on Thursday 1st February! The offices were officially opened by Dr Nik Johnson, Mayor of Cambridge and Peterborough. It was lovely to see so many local groups involved in the opening and a great opportunity to meet new people and catch up with some friendly faces too!

Christmas Parties Across HVC!!

Our Office Managers have been busy arranging Christmas parties for their amazing volunteers!

Our thanks goes out to…..

St Ives Free Church  and Berkley Street Methodist Church in St Neots for allowing us to use their facilities, Costco for their donation towards the food and the beautiful cake, support from Cllr Catherine Goodman, Cllr Richard Slade, the generous donations from our clients and of course our volunteers for making HVC so special- we are truly thankful!

Lots of laughs, a quiz, music, mince pies, cakes, nibbles, mulled wine…

Here are just a few photos of our lovely people…