Newark Community First Aid launches drive for new volunteers for 2021
| Updated: 09:45, 25 January 2021
A first aid charity has set itself an ambitious new year challenge Ââ to recruit and train the most volunteers it has ever done in one year.
Newark Community First Aid is aiming to recruit 15 new members during 2021, three more than its previous best.
âTo continue with covid support, first aid training and a likely surge in requests to provide first aid cover we need more members,â said operations manager Philip Jessop.
Some of the Newark Community First Aid team at the 2019 Reach Santa Run (44000837)
âOur volunteers have been heavily involved in providing support to the community as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the nation.
| Updated: 14:48, 23 December 2020
Charities and groups that have done their best to support people throughout the coronavirus pandemic have been given a share of £1,800 fund from Newarkâs Asda.
The store asked customers to nominate organisations that had tried to make sure nobody had been on their own in the pandemic.
Six groups received £300 each Ââ Newark Community First Aid, HUG (Help Us Grieve), Newark Community Hub, Beaumond House Hospice Care, Home Start Newark, and Newark Emmaus Trust.
Home Start family group Christmas party, 2019. Chris Woods of Newark with Leia Woods 2. 101219DD1-17
The storeâs community champion, Sinead Hinch, said: âIt really is so wonderful to be able to support local groups, even more so at this time of year.â
Buzz about Newark Market Place as craft and charity markets return over the weekend
| Updated: 13:31, 14 December 2020
Craft and charity markets happened in Newark Market Place over the weekend and brought some much-needed, albeit socially-distanced, hustle and bustle to the town.
Saturday saw a craft market that was marshalled by security staff and had a one-way system in force. Thankfully although busy, there weren t the numbers that forced the closure of the more large-scale event in Nottingham Market Square on the first day of its run.
Sunday saw a number of local, county and regional charities represented as they tried to do something to address the major losses to their revenues caused by the coronavirus lockdowns.