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Vounteers' Week Celebrations
Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the fantastic contribution that millions of volunteers make across the UK. To mark this event and thank their volunteers North West Locality staff organised an award ceremony and lunch for volunteers followed by a visit to the Tall Ship, Riverside.
![Volunteers](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Sandra%20Duff%2C%20Voluneer%20Coordinator%20with%20Volunteers.jpg)
Partnership Staff Teams get First and Second Place in SASW Social Work Team of the Year Award 2018
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership Staff received two Awards in the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) Awards for Best Practice in 2017.
![Picture of winning teams with David Williams](/sites/default/files/hero-images/SASW%20winner%20and%20highly%20commended%20with%20David%20Williamscropped%20web.jpg)
Raising Awareness of Bowel Cancer
April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. Bowel cancer is Scotland’s third most common cancer but it is treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early. Nearly everyone diagnosed at the earliest stage will survive bowel cancer but this drops significantly as the disease develops.
![Bowel Cancer UK logo](/sites/default/files/hero-images/bowelcanceruk.png)
Getting Ready for Spring - Sun Awareness Training
North East Health Improvement Staff are making sure local children are ready for sunny spring weather by providing sun awareness training for nursery staff in the north east of Glasgow.
![Picture of staff](/sites/default/files/hero-images/sun%20awarenss%20cropped.jpg)
Supporting Parents and their Teenagers
Glasgow Central Parenting Team has joined forces with the Partnership's North West Health Improvement Team's Youth Health Service (YHS) to offer a triage of support to young people and their parents/carers in the North West of Glasgow.
![Picture of staff](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Triple%20p%20story%20picture%20cropped.jpg)
Partnership Signs Up to the Glasgow Volunteering Charter
There is good evidence that volunteering brings benefits to both the person volunteering and the people and organisations they support. Volunteering means choosing to spend time unpaid doing something to help other people or groups, other than (or as well as) close relatives.
![Picture of Fiona Moss and Bernadette Monaghan](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Fiona%20Moss%20and%20Bernadette%20Monaghan%20cropped%202.jpg)
Health and Social Care Information Just A Click Away
Members of the Partnership's North East Locality Forum took part in a demonstration of the Your Support Your Way Glasgow Website on Thursday 15 February.
![Locality Engagement Forum View Your Support Website](/sites/default/files/hero-images/YSYWNELEFcropped.jpg)
Young People Vote for Local Projects
On 18 January 2018 the 'Big Grant Giveaway' was hosted at the Tramway Theatre. 12 projects from across South Glasgow presented their youth-led ideas to an audience of 200 local young people with the hope of securing up to £3000, to see their ideas become a reality.
![Picture of young people.](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Big%20Grant%20givaway%20cropped.jpg)
North East Locality Staff Support Cervical Cancer Prevention Week
North East Locality Staff supported the Jo's Trust #SmearForSmear Campaign during Cervical Cancer Awareness Week which ran from Monday 22- Sunday 28 January.
![Picture of staff](/sites/default/files/hero-images/Smear%20for%20Smear%20354%20cropped.jpg)
Mums Help Mums - Breastfeeding Mentors
Increasing the number of mums who breastfeed their babies is a Scottish Government priority
to improve child health and reduce inequalities.
![Group picture of breastfeeding mentors](/sites/default/files/hero-images/breastfeeding%20cropped.jpg)