AVAILABLE NOW
Information & resources
• Weekly ebulletin
• Quarterly Newsletter
• Website – factsheets, events, news
• Directory
• Funding Portal
• Training Calendar
Capacity building support
• Basic support
• In-depth support
Policy & Voice
• Children & families
• Mental health
• Health, social care & wellbeing
Working with partners
• young people
• learning, skills & employment
• BME communities
• Sustainability
• Equalities Hub
NEW
Volunteer Centre Manchester
• Find volunteering opportunities
• Support volunteers in your group
• Volunteering resources, policies & procedures
• Training
• Volunteering Strategy
• Volunteering Network
Manchester Community Central Website
• Extra Volunteer Centre resources
• Improved funding search
• Details of local Community First panels
• Blogs & updates from representatives
• Tracking key issues: equalities, disabilities, crime
Office facilities
• Meeting rooms
• City centre hotdesking
• Access to office equipment & resources
• ‘Post-box’ for small groups
• Limited availability
• Members only
State of the Sector Survey
• Survey launch 08/10/2012 – online + post
• Report April 2013
CRB checking services for volunteers
• Free via Volunteer Centre Manchester
Voluntary & Community Sector Assembly
• Regular meetings
• Online discussions
• Representing the sector
Membership of Macc
COMING SOON
Commissioning
• Support & training for groups
• Consortium and partnership support
• Kitemark
• Updates from local commissioners
Transforming Local Infrastructure
• Working the private sector
• Improving local giving & fundraising
• HR support
• Bid checking
• Social finance support
• ‘Trading post’ for resource sharing & recycling between groups
• A Third Sector Strategy for Manchester
More Community Engagement
Engaging voluntary and community sector organisations is important.
• Engaging local residents is important
• NOT the same thing (though there is some overlap)
• Macc’s role
o Lead on involvement of voluntary and community sector groups (Assembly)
o Work with others to co-ordinate and add to engagement with residents
2013 and BEYOND
Leadership
Macc will:
• Remember the point: the people of Manchester, not just organisations with a charity number
• Take long view based on values & policy
• Work to reach groups we’re not in touch with
• Be accountable to the sector through the Voluntary & Community Sector Assembly
• Challenge when we need to