From January 2025, the One Gloucestershire Integrated Care System will be working with the VCSE sector and the people & communities of Gloucestershire to:
Codesign a partnership model to support a thriving and sustainable VCSE sector and Create community capacity and support to individuals on the ground.
This weeks round up of job and trustee vacancies within the VCSE sector in Gloucestershire.
Week beginning 18 November 2024.
Earlier this year, the Gloucestershire VCSE Strategic Partnership consulted VCSE sector colleagues.
As a result of the feedback received, the Partnership has developed a new plan based on feedback from the sector.
This month, Angela Gilbert, VCSE representative on the Cheltenham Integrated Locality Partnership (ILP), shares how she, and fellow representative Andy Herbert, have helped make it possible for VCSE groups & organisations in Cheltenham to influence priorities for the Strengthening Local Communities grants.
There has been a lot of talking about the need to do something about loneliness in Gloucestershire.
This document is our attempt to concisely summarise where those conversations have been landing and to steer us towards the actions we can take as a county to do something about prioritising connection.
In the first of our 'Spotlight On' series, Wendy Kewley meets Sarah Frazer from the Trinity Rooms Community Hub to find out about the work of the Network of Stroud Hubs.
In September, we announced the launch of a new free Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV) toolkit for VCSE groups & organisations across Gloucestershire.
We were delighted to find out that members of the Strategy & Transformation Directorate at NHS Gloucestershire ICB recently visited The Grace Network for their Volunteering Away Day and thoroughly enjoyed participating in some ESV.
You can find out more in our Guest Blog, written by Hannah Norman (VCSE Impact Manager in the Healthy Communities and Individuals Team) below...
This week, NCVO published a report documenting the trustee recruitment and retention challenges faced by charities across the country. We have therefore dedicated our team blog this month to this hot topic.
In this blog, our Business Support Lead, Karen, shares how we diversified our recent trustee recruitment campaign to reach a wider pool of trustees. Karen also shares some simple and effective changes that you can make to enhance your next recruitment drive.
The Autumn Budget set out the governments spending plan up until March 2026. It also provides insight into the 2026 spending review, which is important as it will outline how funding to central government departments will be allocated (up until March 2029).
Any decisions made now and in the future will impact on the VCSE sector and local communities in a range of ways. We’ve therefore put together a list of articles and resources that you may find useful.
This interactive workshop is designed specifically to help local VCSE groups & organisations to strengthen their cyber security practices.
Places are fully funded for VCSE sector groups & organisations delivering services in Gloucestershire.
