NVSC - Newham Voluntary Sector Consortium

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Liaison	Funding advice
Facilitation	Resources
Sector meetings	Events
Capacity Building	Support for organisational development

The Council have stated that they are committed to providing Third Sector support via a co-ordinating body, however they have, to date, not identified the financial resources that this requires, and this is also missing from the draft specifications.

The Council have started the process of consultation and have met with key infrastructure organisations, held a meeting of the sectors and are speaking to individual organisations.

Petition

In support of NVSC, we would urge you, your members and colleagues to sign the petition for the following reasons:

The independence of the sector is under threat and we must resist this.

It is vital to the growth of the sector that it maintains its independent voice and without fear, and threats to withdraw funding.

This is clearly an attack on the ability of the sector to organise and have a voice. Losing a co-ordinating body will be a backwards step and will mean the return of the practise of not working together and where information is only available to a few.

Does it make any sense to oversee the demise of one organisation and then spend time and energy - not to mention financial resources - to set up another co-ordinating body?

This is your opportunity to support, not just NVSC, but all the local infrastructure organisations and the wider Voluntary Community and Faith lead organisations in the borough - it might be their turn next!

PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION AND ENCOURAGE YOUR MEMBERS AND NETWORKS TO DO THE SAME - CLICK HERE

Third Sector Support

On behalf of Newham Council, NVSC held a Third Sector Support Consultation Event on February 6th 2008.

Newham Council is consulting on a specification for Third Sector Support. We want to ensure that as many people as possible respond to the consultation.

Please take the time to read not only the draft specification but also the other documents. As we receive responses they will be posted here.

Downloads:
	Third Sector Support Specification
	NVSC presentation at the event on 6 Feb 08
	Notes from the workshops at the event on 6 Feb 08

Third Sector Funding

A partnership between Newham Voluntary Sector Consortium, Aston-Mansfield Community Involvement Unit and the Black & Ethnic Minority Community Care Forum.

A new service for Voluntary, Community and Faith organisation in Newham to find accurate fundraising information using GRANTFinder.

For more information on how GRANTFinder could help you successfully fundraise, contact the Newham Third Sector Funding partner's you are currently working with or that is closest to you:

Newham Voluntary Sector Consortium [Stratford]
Ali Ahmed - 020 8522 5354 / ali@nvsc.org.uk

Aston-Mansfield Community Involvement Unit [Forest Gate]
Kevin Blowe - 020 8536 3825 / kevin.blowe@aston-mansfield.org.uk

Black & Ethnic Minority Community Care Forum [Beckton]
Mustafa Arrale - 020 7474 3343 / mustafa.arrale@bemccf.org.uk

For further information, click here

Faith Sector News

Towards the Inclusive Church: Supporting the marginalised. A study on the views of 18 church leaders in Newham with regard to substance misuse and prostitution.

Download the report

Interactive site

We've revamped our site to make it easier for you to get involved. We added a feature to our online news section which allows you to comment on and discuss stories and opinions from the popular and forthright 'Consortium Newsletter'. Quite a few of you already have!

Searchable database

Then there's our new Searchable database of NVSC member organisations. Prospective service users, other organisations, researchers to name but a few can to type in a few key words in the new search facility and be able to find the organisations they are looking for.

Download the registration form now!

If you are an individual or your correspondence address is a personal one you can request for your details not to be included on the web database but be restricted to the mailing list only. (See section 6, Declarations)