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New Information and Workshop Programme - January to June 2012 inclusive.

Please click here for the programme (opens pdf document)  To book your place on a workshop please email development@pavs.org.uk or phone the Development Team on 01437 769422.

New IT Workshop Programme -

January to June 2012 inclusive.

Please click here for programme in English (opens pdf document) and here for the programme in Welsh (opens pdf document).

PAVS Volunteer Team tackles alien invasion

The PAVS Volunteer Team has recently been helping remove Himalayan Balsam from Kingsmill Woods with Pembroke 21C.

Pembroke 21C has been managing the site on behalf of the National Trust for the last 18 months and volunteers have been carrying out a number of practical activities, by hand, such as clearing paths. They have been dealing with Himalayan Balsam for over 15 months; and there is still plenty more to clear. Himalayan Balsam is an invasive species that was introduced to greenhouses in the UK in the nineteenth century and has since escaped into the wild. Plants can grow up to 2 metres in height and have pink flowers, they can often be found on river banks and in damp areas and suppress the growth of native plants. Members of the “V” Team spent most of the day clearing, and bagging, the balsam before it could go to seed and spread throughout the area. Volunteer guides,John Gossage and Andrew Knight, from Pembroke 21C, accompanied the V Team and shared their extensive knowledge with the group.

The PAVS Volunteer Team or ‘V’ Team, is a group of enthusiastic PAVS staff, established to carry out employer supported volunteering for organisations in Pembrokeshire. If you would like the V Team to help your organisation with a project please contact Caroline White at PAVS. Pembroke 21C have a number of volunteer opportunities, many of which are within the woodland and are designed to help volunteers learn practical woodland skills which may lead to gaining a qualification or help individuals back to work (click here for more).

V-team with some of the bags of balsalm

Healthy people, resilient communities: working towards co-production in Pembrokeshire

PembrokeshireCollege, Haverfordwest

Wednesday 13th July, 10 am – 4 pm

This event was planned and is supported by a range of third sector and public sector partners and will include:

• Setting the context for co-production: budgetary constraints, rising inflation, rising demand, an ageing population, climate change – and so on
• Working towards a shared understanding of the principles and process involved in co-production and how these could work locally
• Sharing local examples of co-produced service design and delivery
• Working through local issues and seeing how co-production could work in practice:  healthy living, supporting older people, adult and community based learnin.

To find out more please see the flyer - here.