Bassetlaw Community and Voluntary Service - BCVS

05/06/2026

Take a look out our June BCVS Newsletter 📰

Read it here 👉🏽 bit.ly/BassetNewsJun

If you would like to submit anything into the July edition, email [email protected] by midday, 24th June.

02/06/2026

From Trieste Italy to Tuxford Nottinghamshire
Mario Grapazzi An inspirational man
A prisoner of WW11 in two countries.
His life’s adventures

Saturday 6th June at 2 pm - free event and refreshments
Walks of Life Museum 33 Lincoln Road Tuxford NG22 OHR

02/06/2026

Is Volunteers' Week inspiring you to give volunteering a go?

We can help you on your volunteer journey!

You can find information and lots of live opportunities on our website at www.bcvs.org.uk/volunteer

01/06/2026

Volunteers' Week is here!

This year marks 42 years of saying thank you to all volunteers across the UK for everything they do in their communities and we are so proud of all of our Bassetlaw volunteers!

28/05/2026

✨ Eid al-Adha Mubarak ✨

As we mark this blessed occasion of Eid al-Adha, we reflect on the values of compassion, sacrifice, generosity, and community that bring us together.

Wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful, joyful, and blessed Eid filled with love, reflection, and togetherness.

Eid Mubarak from all of us at BCVS 🌙

28/05/2026

East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) has declared a business continuity incident (as at 19.15 hours, Tuesday 26 May 2026) following sustained pressure on its services across the region.

In recent days, demand for emergency care has increased, including as a result of the hot weather, alongside wider pressures being experienced across the NHS.

A business continuity incident is declared when services may be disrupted below expected levels and additional arrangements are required to maintain patient care.

Declaring a business continuity incident allows EMAS to take additional steps, working closely with NHS partners, to help ensure ambulance crews are available to respond to patients in the community.

This includes:

🟢 Supporting the timely handover of patients at hospital emergency departments, so ambulance crews can return to responding to 999 calls.

🟢 Working with healthcare providers to ensure patients are directed to the most appropriate care.

🟢 Continuing to prioritise the most life-threatening and serious incidents.

This is to ensure emergency ambulances are available to respond to people in the community where life is at risk.

We recognise this is challenging for our NHS partners, who are also working under significant pressure, and we are grateful for their continued support.

Alongside this, EMAS is maximising available resources and reviewing how ambulance crews are deployed across the region.

We will continue to monitor the situation closely, with a focus on maintaining safe patient care and returning to normal service levels as soon as possible.

Members of the public are asked to support us during this period of high demand.

999 should always be used when someone is seriously ill or injured and their life is at risk.

If your condition is not life-threatening, there are other NHS services available that may be able to help you.

These include:

- NHS 111 online or by phone.
- Local pharmacies.
- Urgent Treatment Centres.
- Your GP (including out-of-hours services).

Choosing the most appropriate service helps ensure our ambulance crews are available for those who may need them most.

Additional information:

1) Given the severity of the concern, senior leaders will continue to respond to the challenges faced and to ensure support for staff and volunteers at work. Therefore, media interviews will not be conducted tonight. Media requests should be sent via [email protected] and will be responded to tomorrow.

2) In response to pressures in the NHS system and on ambulance services, on Tuesday 26 May 2026, EMAS escalated to Resource Escalation Action Plan (REAP) Level 4 – the highest level which indicates a potential for failures within the service.

3) The Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response framework describes as business continuity incident as: ‘an event or occurrence that disrupts, or might disrupt, an organisation’s normal service delivery, below acceptable predefined levels, where special arrangements are required to be implemented until services can return to an acceptable level (this could be a surge in demand requiring resources to be temporarily redeployed).

28/05/2026

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales has launched a new nine-year strategy, ‘In a Good Place’, focused on helping people and communities across England and Wales thrive. Building on insights from community organisations, the strategy aims to grow charitable giving, create impact in every parliamentary constituency by 2030, and support community-led change in 100 local areas by 2035. The Foundation believes communities hold the solutions to many challenges and will continue backing local organisations to drive positive change.

Find out more here:

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales will be ensuring everyone in England and Wales is in a good place. Being able to say that they’re in a good place personally, in a home that’s a good place to live, and in a community that’s a good place to belong to. We'll play our role by connecti...

20/05/2026

A morning well spent for Marzena, Olivia and Jess at Outwood Post 16 Centre, chatting with students about the power of volunteering as part of their Employability Week in June.

Inspiring conversations, brilliant questions, and a fantastic group of young people exploring how they can make a difference in their community.