We're absolutely delighted to announce that Gloucestershire's Volunteer Awards is returning for 2025!
Please save Thursday 5 June 2025 in your diary as we can't wait to celebrate with you again!
On Tuesday 29 November our CEO, Matt Lennard, joined partners from Gloucestershire County Council, the NHS, the police and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner.
Each partner signed a charter committing to work together to make Gloucestershire ‘a great place to grow up where children and young people thrive and live lives of choice and opportunity’.
Barnwood Trust, Gloucestershire County Council and Gloucestershire VCS Alliance are today announcing a new partnership aimed at enhancing inclusive short breaks for families of disabled children and young people.
This initiative will run until April 2027, and will see the partners working together to co-fund short breaks in Gloucester, the North Cotswolds and Tewkesbury.
We're delighted to announce the launch of our analysis of Community Interest Companies (CICs) in Gloucestershire.
Our Research and Development Officer, Emily, has also created an Interactive Data Dashboard containing information about CICs in the county.
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.
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...
