Integrated Locality Partnerships (ILPs) are a way of joining up a wide range of local services to tackle the root causes of health inequalities and improve people’s health and wellbeing.  

They include Gloucestershire’s NHS organisations and GP’s, VCSE sector representatives, the County Council, local District Councils and a range of other agencies.You can find out more information about ILPs on the NHS Gloucestershire website.

ILP Representatives 

There is an ILP for each of the six localities in Gloucestershire: Cheltenham, Cotswolds, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud & Berkeley Vale and Tewkesbury. The VCSE sector has two representatives on each ILP who champion the sector as an equal partner in the design and delivery of services.

Representatives are responsible for:

• Supporting effective communication and improving the way both sectors work together at a local level.
• Gathering and representing people’s experiences, priorities, views and concerns.
• Sharing information about the work of the ILP and the opportunities it presents.

How are representatives accountable? 

Representatives are appointed from the sector and are accountable to the sector. This is overseen by the Gloucestershire VCSE Strategic Partnership.

Your ILP representatives 

If you have views to share or would like to get in touch with your local ILP representatives, their contact details are below:

Cheltenham 

• Angela Gilbert: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Andy Herbert This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Cotswolds 

• Jo Hammond: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Ben Ward: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Forest of Dean 

• Chris Brown: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Andrew Embling: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Gloucester 

• Sue Cunningham: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Katie Tucker: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Stroud 

• Victoria Robson: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Elizabeth Hall: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Tewkesbury 

• Tracy Clark: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Julia Glaudot: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Useful links

• One Gloucestershire website - this website that contains information about the One Gloucestershire Integrated Care System.
• Know Your Patch Networks - this website has information about work of Know Your Patch Networks in Gloucestershire and how to contact them.

Join us

Our members work together to make lasting, positive change within local communities. Membership is free for VCSE and statutory organisations delivering services in Gloucestershire. By joining us, local organisations become part of a wider community and are able to access a range of enhanced benefits above and beyond our usual fully-funded support. You can find out more on our membership page. 

Work with us

We're always looking for new ways to collaborate and work in partnership with colleagues from the VCSE and statutory sectors, as well as local business. If you're interested in working with us and would like to explore this in more detail, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We also provide a range of hosting services for local groups & organisations that may need some 'back office' support. You can find out more about this support on our hosted projects page. 

We’re working in partnership with The Summerfield Charitable Trust to take forward a pioneering investment strategy that aims to improve the lives of thousands of people in the county.  

Project themes

We are working with local VCSE sector groups, organisations and communities to co-produce a range of investment proposals for the Trust’s Board to consider. These proposals will be focussed within 6 core themes:  

• A Connected Society: building communities, so everyone feels they belong; 
• Ageing Well: supporting older people to have a good quality of life;   
• Arts and Culture: developing ways of increasing participation in creativity, arts and culture;   
• Children and Families: building support for local families with children under the age of 5;   
• Action for Nature and Climate: enabling communities to take action for nature and encouraging individual and collective behaviours that reduce the use of carbon; and   
• Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) infrastructure: developing organisational support that enables the sector to innovate and thrive.  

Useful links

• Summerfield Charitable Trust Investment Strategy - this document contains the original strategy that was approved by the Trust's Board in 2024.
• Frequently Asked Questions - this document contains some FAQs and questions that were raised during our online Question & Answer session with David Owen, Chair of the Summerfield Charitable Trust, in April 2024. 
• Summerfield Charitable Trust website - you can find out more about the Trust, their history and funding programmes on their website.

Join us

Our members work together to make lasting, positive change within local communities. Membership is free for VCSE and statutory organisations delivering services in Gloucestershire. By joining us, local organisations become part of a wider community and are able to access a range of enhanced benefits above and beyond our usual fully-funded support. You can find out more on our membership page. 

Work with us

We're always looking for new ways to collaborate and work in partnership with colleagues from the VCSE and statutory sectors, as well as local business. If you're interested in working with us and would like to explore this in more detail, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We also provide a range of hosting services for local groups & organisations that may need some 'back office' support. You can find out more about this support on our hosted projects page. 

Conversations for Change is a learning & development programme that we are co-designing with partners and local VCSE organisations, to enable frontline staff/volunteers to be highly skilled and confident in their work with communities.

As well as developing a learning & development programme, we are also looking at:

• How training can be provided in a way that builds VCSE sector capacity around supporting and developing frontline staff/volunteers; and
• How to draw on and invest in the talent that already exists in the VCSE sector, including using VCSE trainers or scaling up delivery of the sectors' own training offerings.

Background Information

The programme began in late 2023 following a discussion with system leaders about the important role of voluntary sector staff and volunteers in supporting health and wellbeing within communities. It recognised that VCSE sector groups & organisations are trusted local sources of support, and those that work in the sector had a key role empowering people make positive changes in their lives. The discussion originated around tackling alcohol misuse but broadened to be about the VCSE sector's role in encouraging people to make any change that improved their life. 

Why 'Conversations for Change'?

We know that people create momentum for change together and the quality of these frontline conversations really matters. The core learning & development programme will be about conversational tools and techniques to have really enabling interactions with people. These skills come from the world of coaching, positive psychology and behavioural science and builds on the existing person-centred approach to working with people.

The context of these conversation also matters – understanding how to talk positively about difficult subjects like addiction, homelessness or domestic abuse may need some additional specific training. The programme aims to work with the sector to identify these topics and useful training content. This includes working with VCSE sector groups & organisations within the county that have expertise in these areas of work.  

Our Progress

Funding has been secured to deliver this programme and a small project team of public health, NHS and VCSE sector partners (including Gloucestershire VCS Alliance) has been set up to steer the work. The first phase of the programme is “discovery” and involves engaging with the VCSE sector to codesign the programme. This is to understand more about the sectors' priorities in regard to:

• Upskilling frontline teams;
• The wider work context;
• Making training accessible to all within the sector; and
• How the sector itself might be able to support this upskilling work.  

The timeline of work so far is below:

• Focus Group Session - in December 2023, a focus group was held with VCSE sector representatives to begin to explore some of these issues. You can download the session report via the following link: Conversations for Change Focus Group Report - 2023.
• Sector survey - this informed a survey that we sent out in 2024. The survey aims to broaden the collection of views and identify individuals within the VCSE sector who are interested or skilled in training and development. The survey also aimed to identify any training that VCSE groups & organisations could deliver to colleagues in the sector. 
• Connecting with training providers - the project team also connected with potential training providers about how local delivery might be enabled while the survey was open.

We are now working on the programme development and this will include connecting with those who express an interest in supporting delivery, to explore how their involvement can be enabled.

Join us

Our members work together to make lasting, positive change within local communities. Membership is free for VCSE and statutory organisations delivering services in Gloucestershire. By joining us, local organisations become part of a wider community and are able to access a range of enhanced benefits above and beyond our usual fully-funded support. You can find out more on our membership page. 

Work with us

We're always looking for new ways to collaborate and work in partnership with colleagues from the VCSE and statutory sectors, as well as local business. If you're interested in working with us and would like to explore this in more detail, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We also provide a range of hosting services for local groups & organisations that may need some 'back office' support. You can find out more about this support on our hosted projects page.