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Queens Award for Voluntary Service

Month: August 2020

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Queens Award for Voluntary Service: A community of Women

BGilbert

Cohort 4 receive the Queens Award for Voluntary Service from the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire Thank you all for being here today to celebrate our fantastic achievement. My name is Rachel Wilde and I am one of the directors of Cohort 4. I just want to say a few words about the work which we do and how our organisation has developed and evolved over time. Cohort 4 has been in operation for over 6 years and has grown from a single project into a multitude of projects primarily focussed on women. I first got to experience the valuable and unique work which happens at Cohort 4 in 2015 when I was studying to become a Social Worker. I attended…

OCN Level 3 (Peer) Mentoring Programme – ‘Women Supporting Women’

BGilbert

Cohort 4 have been delivering our OCN Level 3 Reintegrative Mentoring© programme since 2014. We’ve delivered units of the programme to a range of groups in England and in the EU, including: mentoring for young people not in education, employment or training, to those at risk of criminalisation, to BAME groups, those who support women with multiple disadvantages, to statutory asylum and leaving care teams and to women’s groups reinforcing survival after experience of abuse(s). We’ve written policy and handbooks, peer mentoring matching tools and have trained managers and mentor coordinator teams for county councils; we’ve developed bespoke peer mentoring units specifically for women from European women’s organisations and we are now preparing to deliver units via online means to…

What Cohort 4 means to me & the Marrow

BGilbert

I have had a bad few days, despairing with my son and his upsetting outbursts, feeling very alone and useless, having to watch my best friends’ funeral online because covid has prevented us being able to hug and cry together 😥 But today I had a message from Cohort 4, just to offer fresh produce to help me provide food for my family whilst I remain struggling to work.It’s not just the food, it’s the gesture. That another human is thinking of people like me, during these times when it’s so easy to think, out of sight, out of mind…. But this outreach made me feel so much better, just a friendly face asking if I’m ok. I feel so…

Choppy Waters: Covid-19, changes in support needs and growing funding stresses

BGilbert

Choppy Waters Covid-19, changes in support needs and growing funding stresses Since 2014, Cohort 4 has operated across a small geographical region containing pockets of significant deprivation (Indices of Deprivation, 2019). We are within a mainly working class, predominantly white area in North of Warwickshire, a semi-rural, ex mining area where the closure of the pits decimated communities in the 1980s onwards. Public transport has been reduced from the outlying mining villages. Police stations, probation offices, social services and other statutory services have closed their buildings in semi-rural or small market town communities, moving to more centralised, large town locations.  All of this serves to disadvantage semi-rural communities. Larger charities and support services also locate themselves in large towns and…

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