The golden girls of Fuente Amarga, Jackie, Jane and Pat held a market day for Cudeca in Villanueva de la Concepción and raised the grand total of 1.222,79€. An enjoyable day was had by all.   The ladies manned lots of stalls with a good selection of good quality clothes, books, bric a brac and home produce […]

Joan Hunt was short-listed to receive the award. Joan was unable to travel so Marisa Martin & Susan Hannam travelled to London for the award ceremony at the Landmark Hotel. There were 3 people short-listed in the category Service User/Carer/Volunteer of the Year Sponsored by Quay Books Winner Joan Hunt, OBE Cudeca Foundation Benalmadena Malaga […]

The new Cudeca web site reached an amazing statistic in February 2009, as, during this month, 2,148 people from 40 different countries have visited our site. As would be expected, the majority of the visitors (just over 85%) were from Spain, while the second highest were from the UK – but equally important was the fact […]

The 13th and 14th of February we attended the “VI Andalucian Congress on Volunteer Work” will be held on at the Seville Fairs and Congress Hall, under the theme “more participacion, a better society”. Cudeca took part on the first day with the communcation “Quality in the Control and Organisation of the Volunteer Programme in […]

On the 28th of January we attended the “1st Seminar on Quality in Volunteer Work” organised by the “Andalucian Platform on Volunteer Work”. In this Seminar, matters put forward for debate included the systems on quality in the Andalucian organizations on Volunteer Work, proposals and regulations on quality applied to the running procedures of this work were analised, and […]

On Friday 23rd January 2009, a cheque for €2,084 was presented to Marisa Ballestracci of Cudeca Cancer Care Hospice by the Christmas Day Dippers. The sponsored dippers, loyal supporters of the Hospice, braved the cold waters at Roquetas del mar on Christmas Day to raise much needed funds. Cudeca wishes to thank all the dippers for their […]

Cudeca held it’s annual Christmas Light a Light Ceremony on the 14th December in the Day Care Centre at the Hospice. It is a Christmas tribute to a loved one by dedicating a light to a special person who has touched your life. There were Bell Ringers and Choirs and a raffle with fantastic prizes […]

On the 13th and 14th of November, the “1st Volunteer Conference Fundación Cudeca and Fundación Cajasol: Working for High Standard Volunteer Work” was held at the Malaga Civic Centre, with the collaboration of the Malaga Provincial Delegation, the Area of Citizens Participation, Immigration and Cooperation for Development of the Malaga City Council; the Costa del […]

On 5th of December, being International Volunteer Day, the Mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, presented the prizes of the 4th edition of Premios “Malaga Voluntario” at the Malaga Congress Hall, with the collaboration of Fundación Cajasol. These prizes recognise the individual work of the volunteers and organisations, who have carried out exemplary work […]