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Christmas Coffee Mates
Join us for a special Christmas-themed Coffee Mates this month!
Date: Wednesday 10th December
Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Location: The Old Library Centre, 65 Omberslery Street East, Droitwich WR9 8QS
We’ll be hosting an afternoon full of fun, laughter, and delicious treats — all while raising money for our charity, to help us continue supporting everyone within the local community!
What’s happening:
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Singing
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A Christmas-themed word search
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Beautiful Christmas decorations
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An even bigger and better monthly raffle with fantastic Christmas-themed prizes to be won
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Plenty of tasty treats including mince pies, refreshments, and good company
Bring along your friends, family, and loved ones, and join us for a warm and welcoming afternoon filled with community spirit, great conversation, and delicious bakes — all in support of this wonderful charity.
Edward Winslow Thanksgiving Awards 2025
We are EXTREMELY proud to share one of our amazing volunteers was nominated and has won the Community Champion Award for this year's Edward Winslow Thanksgiving Awards!
I’m sure you’ll all agree that all our volunteers are truly incredible!
But one of our very special volunteers was given fantastic recognition for everything that she has done for the local community, by being honoured for her hard work and dedication at The Edward Winslow Thanksgiving Awards.
Shelley has been an integral part of our Moving Forwards on Westlands team for many years, and we’re thrilled to share that she has received the Edward Winslow Community Champion Award.
Thank you Shelley, you’re a star!
Droitwich Community Showcase 2025
Back for a second year in a row, the Droitwich Community Showcase returned on Saturday 20th September, celebrating everything that makes our town so special. This free event brought together local groups, charities, and clubs, offering a chance to discover new activities, explore volunteering opportunities, and meet the people who help keep Droitwich thriving.
What an amazing turnout we had at our Droitwich Community Showcase last Saturday, with over 150 people attending this fantastic community event!
We cannot thank everyone enough — from those who helped organise and support the event, to all the wonderful people who came along, chatted, and got involved.
We hope you discovered valuable insights into the brilliant groups, organisations, and support available right here in our local area. The positive feedback we’ve received has been overwhelming, and we had an absolute blast bringing this showcase together.
A very special thank you goes to all the groups who attended, and an even bigger shout out to the very kind sponsors of our event: Cllr. Richard Morris, Cllr Dan Birch, and Platform Housing Group.
Without your generosity, this fantastic event would not have been possible — so THANK YOU!
Our Moving Forward on Westlands team planned and organised another brilliant Family Fun Day, on Wednesday 13th August. Where families enjoyed games, rides, and activities.
We joined this wonderful event by hosting our own stand with fun games, information, and advice, and it was great to connect with so many local people.
A huge thank you to everyone involved – and to Wychavon and Platform Housing Group for making it possible.
We can't wait for next year's fantastic Family Fun Day!
Moving Forward's
Family Fun Day 2025
Online Article
We’re proud to share that our Family Fun Day, planned and organised by the Moving Forward on Westlands team, has been featured in an online article by Platform Housing Group!
The piece highlights the success of this fantastic community event, which brought local families together for games, activities, and support.
📖 Read the full article here: https://www.platformhg.com/article/families-enjoy-day-free-fun-westlands-estate
Thank you to everyone who joined us and to Wychavon and Platform Housing Group for making this event possible!
Award Time
We’re incredibly proud to announce...
We've been awarded Best Regional Community Services & Networking NPO 2025 – Worcestershire by Acquisition International as part of their prestigious Non-Profit Organisation Awards!
Awards Coordinator Melissa Bramall shared:
“We’re proud to recognise those who play a part in improving this world and the lives of our fellow beings. It’s such an honour to celebrate their successes and learn from their stories. Congratulations again.”
We’re honoured to be among this inspiring group of changemakers and grateful for the continued support of our incredible community
Visit this link to learn more about us and our fantastic award:
https://www.acquisition-international.com/.../droitwich-cvs/
2 Years of Coffee Mates
We were so thrilled to celebrate the 2nd birthday of Coffee Mates in June 2025. Launched as part of Loneliness Awareness Week 2023 our monthly coffee afternoon has become so popular over it's last two years.
With themed quizzes, raffles, chats, laughs, sweet treats and countless cups of tea and coffee it has been a wonderful year- and long may it continue!
Find out more about Coffee Mates here
We were so grateful to accept a donation of £3,185 from former Mayor, Councillor Kate Fellows and her consort Derek.
Droitwich Spa CVS, 2516 Droitwich Squadron Royal Air Force Cadets, and the Droitwich Fire Cadets from Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service were the chosen charities for the town mayor 2023/24.
We are so thankful for this donation that will be put towards a new Community Transport wheelchair accessible vehicle.
Charities Boosted by Civic Fundraising
Dan Birch (HWFRS Fire Cadet instructor), Tonia Enderbury BEM (Chief Executive Officer Droitwich Spa CVS), Councillor Kate Fellows, and Flight Lieutenant Paul Wilde (RAFAC).
The wonderful artist Wendy Simmons generously donated a beautiful piece of artwork to us at Droitwich Spa CVS.
Wendy started creating this artwork at our Community Showcase in May, where she was talking about the brilliant Droitwich Arts Network.
Our thanks goes out to Wendy for this great reminder of the showcase and a beautiful piece to brighten our walls.
Artwork Donation
Droitwich Community Showcase 2024
On Saturday May 11th 2024 we hosted the first ever
Droitwich Community Showcase.
Representatives from local groups, organisations and clubs were there, spreading the word about what they do and how people can get involved.
It was a busy day with 31 stalls where local people could discover a new hobby, club to join, volunteering opportunity or where they can get support. With performances, demonstrations and activities it was a chance to show what this brilliant town has to offer!
John Lewis Donation
Our wonderful team celebrated a generous donation from John Lewis!
This will support the running our of Community Transport Service. Helping us to continue to provide our services, getting people to appointments, to see friends and family, day care centres, helping reduce isolation with our community trips and much more.
In the picture you can see some of our regular minibus passengers, ready for another one of our community trips, alongside of one of our fantastic volunteer drivers - without them, we couldn't do what we do!
THANK YOU to John Lewis, your support means the world!
Success and Celebration at Moving Forward
The Next Steps Launch
We're so thrilled with the turnout for the launch of Moving Forward's The Next Steps. On the 20th of October we celebrated the launch of our fantastic project over at The Westlands Community Hub. We're so excited for all of the future plans to take place at Moving Forward and would like to thank the team and volunteers for all the hard work you all do for the project.
Thanks to Nigel Huddleston MP and Cllr. Kate Fellows for attending and showing your support also, we loved having you there to celebrate with us!
A great event with wonderful people:
Kate Fellows Nigel Huddleston MP Moving Forward on Westlands Cllr. Richard Morris Starting Well Partnership - South Worcestershire Platform Housing Group Droitwich Wellbeing Hub Westlands Residents Association.
Moving Forward - Family Fun Day
An amazing afternoon at the Family Fun Day we held in August! Thanks to everyone who attended the event and to Platform Housing Group and Wychavon for funding it. We had a total of 441 at the event and we are so pleased with the response from residents!
Coffee Mates Success!
We have launched our brand new coffee group, meeting once a month on the second Wednesday in the afternoon!
People are welcome to join in, meet up at the Old Library Centre where you can enjoy light refreshments and chat with others. We're so pleased that we have had such a good turn out so far!
This is a FREE group to attend, aiming to bring people together. This new initiative has kindly been sponsored by local business Better Happy.
A huge thank you to the team for supporting us and Coffee Mates!
Please contact us for more information!
Planned Menopause Talk at the Old Library Centre
We are welcoming Diane from Bourne2Care on August 22nd at The Old Library Centre. Come along to listen to an informal talk where you can ask general questions you might have about Menopause and HRT. Please contact us to book a seat! 01905 779115 or email us at admin@droitwichcvs.org.uk
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Volunteer Celebrations!
In June we spent some quality time with some of our volunteers, we enjoyed a meal and had lots of laughter! We are so thankful to be supported by our volunteers, we couldn't do it without them.
A HUGE THANK YOU to all of our volunteers.
We celebrated #VolunteersWeek
on our social media, and posted something new everyday to discuss and celebrate how many incredible people support the charity. From driving to gardening, administration to fundraising - we are so fortunate to be supported by so many individuals. Every little helps and without them, we couldn't continue providing vital community services!
Christmas Gift Bags
We are so happy to have distributed these Christmas Gift Bags to local people in Droitwich Spa!
Contents inside each bag include items such as: Soup, Blankets, Chocolates, Christmas Puddings, Custard, Cake, Hot Chocolate, Biscuits, Crisps and Information Leaflets.
Funded by National Grid Christmas Community Giving Fund.
Social Spaces in Droitwich Spa
It has been a pleasure to work with all of these amazing organisations in Droitwich, who are opening doors to the community.
Our Community Builder has created this poster to share all of the great spaces you can attend if you want to socialise, meet new people and get involved in the community.
Moving Forward Partner With Blue Cross!
“Previously we have received small donations of pet food from local supermarkets, we often have families asking if we have pet food available. Over the past six months we have seen an increase in families using the community fridge, and we expect this to continue to rise due to the current cost of living crisis. We welcome any donations, and we are looking forward to our new partnership with Blue Cross Droitwich.”
Read more about this in the Worcester News Article
Moving Forward Halloween Event a Success!
A fantastic afternoon at Westlands Community Hub! The team enjoyed working with Platform Housing Group as part of their communities connected fortnight. They welcomed 50 children and their parents to and they enjoyed a range of craft activities and a wonderful show from Magic Russ!
A huge thank you to the community for showing your support for this event. If you are interested in the future events at Moving Forward please make sure you follow their Facebook.
Panto fun at Moving Forward
The team at Moving Forward funded 2 Pantomime shows, free for local families. Everyone enjoyed themselves and had fun!
EGG - cellent member of the community!
In March 2023, we wanted to shine a light on some inspiring members in our community. So, we asked YOU to nominate someone who you wanted to get an extra special shout out.
Droitwich Fundraising Events
A huge thank you to the community for showing your support.
