Online drop-in session: Digital Inclusion Programme Grant Fund

Jun 10, 2025 | Community news, News

We’re hosting an online drop-in session on 16 June, 10:30 – 11:30am, to answer your questions about the Digital Inclusion Programme Fund. The aim of this programme is to increase digital inclusion support across York and North Yorkshire, through new...

Volunteers’ Week 2025 – Meet our Volunteer Centre Manager, Jonny!

Jun 2, 2025 | Community news, News

It’s Volunteers’ Week 2025! We’re joinining thousands of charitable organisations in recognising and celebrating the contribution volunteers make here in York and across the UK. Running every year for over 20 years, Volunteers’ Week provides an...

New reports outline how accessible York’s GP practice websites and surgeries are

May 7, 2025 | News

Healthwatch York’s volunteers have been auditing York’s GP practice websites and surgeries to see how accessible they are for everyone. Between November 2024 and early February 2025, 20 volunteers spent more than 75 hours looking at GP practice websites and visiting...

Join the York Homelessness Support Network Event taking place on 30 April

Apr 17, 2025 | Community news, News

We would like to invite VCSE organisations who support people experiencing homelessness to the York Homelessness Support Network Event, taking place on Wednesday 30 April, 1.30pm – 4.30pm at the Priory Street Centre.  We have been asked by a group of local...

New report highlights how Proactive Social Prescribers are improving lives in York

Apr 16, 2025 | Community news, News

The Proactive Social Prescribing (PSP) initiative is a compassionate and community-driven project focused on people living with long-term respiratory conditions.  Based across York’s Primary Care Networks, PSPs reach out to individuals who can quite often fall through...