Transcript Building A Greater Society

MACC to the future
Greater Manchester and GMCVO
Alex Whinnom
Director, GMCVO
20th September 2012
(2010)
Total: c11,000
80% < 5 staff
50% < £5k pa
733
950
1,122
915
764
1,376
800
2,259
981
c1,000
GM/c VOLUNTARY SECTOR
GMCVO
• Registered charity and company est 1975
• Membership organisation with a board of
trustees
• Covers the Greater Manchester city region
• Supports local voluntary action, working in
partnership with other support organisations
and with the public and private sectors.
Values
• Locality – Equality - Collaboration
• A strong, diverse and influential
voluntary sector in Greater Manchester
Vision
• To support local voluntary action through
Support, Knowledge, Voice, Infrastructure
Mission and Innovation
Support
• Helping and developing local voluntary
organisations – building the strength,
capacity and diversity of organisations
and their people, focusing on providing
specialist and innovative services best
offered at Greater Manchester level
Knowledge
• Building intelligence and understanding
of and for the voluntary sector – carrying
out research, collecting and
disseminating information and ideas and
promoting the local voluntary sector and
its contribution to Greater Manchester
Voice
• Enabling voluntary organisations to be
heard and to influence - enabling the
views and needs of local voluntary
groups to be expressed and shared
widely and to influence policy and
practice
Infrastructure
• Co-ordinating and developing support
services for voluntary organisations –
working with existing support
organisations and providers, and
developing new kinds of infrastructure to
meet new needs
Innovation
• Trying new ideas and exploring new
opportunities
Formal Partnerships and Reach 2011/12
c3,000 groups pa
actively engaged
GM Voluntary
Sector
Support
Partnership
Private Sector
Liaison Group
9,129 visitors to
St Thomas
Centre
GM CVS
(MOU)
12,900 contacts
Core Cities
Group
Volunteering
GM
1,537 members
of policy
networks
226 members of
VS research
network
GMCVO
NW
Infrastructure
Partnership
GM Learning
Partnership
286 members of
Combine
(community
building managers)
2,612 newsletter
subscriptions
GM BME
Network
7,417 face-to-face
interventions with
GM/c groups
GM Equalities
and Human
Rights
Parliament
Converge
(GM
Wellbeing
Consortium)
400 members of
GMCVO
Links with City Region
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Local Enterprise Partnership
Public Sector Reform Executive
– Whole Place core team
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Employment and Skills Partnership
Transport for Greater Manchester
New Economy
Public Protection Commission (>> Police and Crime Board)
– Transforming Justice / Reducing Reoffending Executive
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GM Police Authority (>> Police and Crime Commissioner)
NHS Commissioning Care Group
NHS Large Scale Change Board
Environment Commission
Individual Local Authorities
GM Probation Trust
GMCVO Priorities 2011 >>>
Provide Voluntary Sector
Leadership, Co-ordination
and Communications at GM
level
Support Public Service
Reform and Community
Budgets by enabling local
voluntary organisations to
contribute to public service
delivery on a large scale
Increase Volunteering
across all voluntary and
public sectors
Support Economic
Regeneration and Localism
agenda by inspiring a new
wave of community
enterprise
Support the delivery of the
Community Transport
element of the TfGM’s bid to
Sustainable Transport Fund
Co-ordinate and develop
initiatives to address
finance, food and fuel
poverty
Support the GM Climate
Change Strategy, Low
Carbon Challenge and
Green Deal by undertaking
large scale retrofit of
community and faith
buildings
Run St Thomas Centre as a
successful social enterprise;
a hub and showcase for the
GM voluntary sector
Further develop our
successful ICT Enterprise,
constituting it as a
subsidiary business
promoting Open Source
Some current initiatives – e.g.
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Whole Place community budgets
Greater Manchester AddVentures
Generating Success
Volunteering Greater Manchester
Talent Match development
Rochdale food pilot
Current services
• Websites – newsletters - policy journal accredited management and specialist
training – consultancy (e.g. enterprise,
formal partnerships, governance) - peer
networks - project development support for community enterprises and
hubs - database development research - conferences and events - St
Thomas Centre – VSS resources
Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation
www.gmcvo.org.uk
Alex Whinnom: 0161 277 1004
[email protected]
St Thomas Centre
Ardwick Green North
Manchester M12 6FZ
Registered Charity No. 504542
Company Ltd. by Guarantee No.1223344
Funded by AGMA