The CAN Connect service is led by Community Action Norfolk and is part of a range of services across Norfolk aimed at reducing loneliness and isolation. The services can help individuals connect with people and activities in their community as well as providing a range of support to help them achieve their goals. The service can also provide support for the community itself. Helping organisations and people make the places we live, stronger, friendlier and more resilient.
Volunteers Week runs from Thurs 1st to Weds 7th June. To support and celebrate organisations who work with volunteers we will be sharing an article for each day of the event.
Many organisations have absence management policies, the law states that provisions, criterions or practices, must be reasonably adjusted to ensure disabled workers are not disadvantaged compared to non-disabled workers.
Fuel poverty affects more than 4.5 million households in UK and more than 25,000 households in Norfolk. It can be caused by numerous factors: low income, poor heating and insulation and unaffordable energy prices. It can severely impact on health and wellbeing and contributes to excess winter deaths and rising NHS costs.
The result of a recent case has made a definitive stance on time limit that an employee on sick leave must use their annual leave by when it is carried over into a new year.
Working with other groups and organisations can bring huge benefits to all involved. The development and management of these relationships can also sometimes bring its own challenges! Community Action Norfolk can work through these alongside you.