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Two local SNP parliamentarians have added their voices to the campaign to save Pilton Community Health Project. Continue reading Ben Macpherson and Deirdre Brock pledge their support to PCHP
FORTH & INVERLEITH VOLUNTARY SECTOR FORUM
Partnership Event
Thursday 22 November at Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre Continue reading Working together: Forth & Inverleith VSF meets on Thursday
Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations’ Council (EVOC) is delighted to announce that Aileen Campbell MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government, will deliver a speech at this year’s conference and AGM. Continue reading Communities Secretary to address EVOC annual general meeting
22 – 26 October 2018
This is the third annual Charity Fraud Awareness Week aiming to help you increase resilience against fraud. Continue reading Charity Fraud Awareness Week
Grant Sugden has been appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees at Circle. Grant previously worked at Circle as a Senior Manager before leaving in 2011 to take up his current full-time role as Chief Executive of Waverley Care, Scotland’s HIV and Hepatitis C Charity. Continue reading New Chairperson for Circle
Applications are open for individuals in the private and third sectors to join the Regional Enterprise Council (REC) for the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal. Continue reading City Region Deal on the hunt for leading lights from private and third sectors
Edinburgh’s Community Planning Review is open: 9th of September is the deadline for responses.
Although a governance review might sound a little dull and dry, this is a really important opportunity for you, and the third sector collectively, to articulate what is missing from community planning as we know it. The intention behind the review is to connect Community Planning to who it is for – communities (writes Jan-Bert van den Bergh).
Now you might think that sounds a bit strange, it is clear that lived experience and community voices are too far removed from the formulation of the community plan and the Edinburgh Partnership Board who are ultimately responsible for it.
So please make sure that you contribute to this review it is important – the clearer and louder the voice for direct involvement for communities and the third sector the better!
To help you along the way we have pulled out some key points:
Section 1 – focusses on the need for a better direct route from people and their lived experience to the community planning partners. It asks us how we ensure that communities are involved and influence community planning in the city.” It also asks us if we need a thought through way to do that.
So what are some of the ideas we have discussed and heard to improve community participation?
Section 2 – looks at locality working. The need for the third sector to take a stronger role in locality working – could we really move away from the traditional meeting based format to something that acknowledges the diversity of the third sector.
Section 3 explores the strategic partnerships that inform and contribute to community planning. We think it is important that there are clear routes in for community action, community groups, local voluntary sector forums, thematic forums and other cross cutting concerns. This is about gathering information and the more information the better. This is also about partnership working and making sure that the voices are heard.
• Articulating the contributions that individuals, communities, community action, voluntary groups and the third sector makes in reshaping the ways that services are accessed and delivered.
• The need for an equal partnership and different perspectives that give the voluntary sector a place to discuss impact of public sector decisions on the third sector and potential impact.
• The specific expertise and effectiveness of the community action, voluntary groups and third sector in addressing particular issues and needs.
• The fact that a shrinking public sector needs community action and third sector input to address the needs of communities at a time when demand as a result of demographic shifts is going to increase not decrease.
Section 4 concentrates on the Edinburgh Partnership as the governing body for community planning. It is recognised that there is a needs for the Edinburgh Partnership to change and become more proactive in its approach. To achieve this it must:
These points have come out of the thinkSpace that EVOC held, the Compact Partnership, the Third Sector Strategy Group and the Voluntary Sector Forums. We urge you to submit your own thoughts and those of any networks that you are involved in.
Here is the link to submit online, and to submit your comments by email or post you can use these forms:
Edinburgh Partnership Governance Consultation 2018 (amended)
Appendix 1 Governance Existing Arrangements
Equalities Monitoring Form (Generic)
and send them to community.planning@edinburgh.gov.uk or return by post to:
Community Strategies Unit
The City of Edinburgh Council
Business Centre 2/1
Waverley Court
4 East Market Street
Edinburgh, EH4 7BG.
Jan-Bert van den Burg is Director at Artlink Edinburgh & the Lothians
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Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations Council (EVOC) celebrated it’s 150th anniversary with a reception at the Scottish Parliament last week. Continue reading EVOC celebrates 150 years