LCVS, working with a range of local partners, is one of more than seventy partnerships of local support and development organisations across England who have received a grant to transform their services and provide high quality, joined-up support to frontline charities.
Across the country, these projects will also make it easier for organisations to forge better links with local businesses, develop stronger partnerships with local public sector bodies and for people to volunteer.
In Liverpool the partnership will be looking at several key areas, including:
- Making better use of web-based technologies to link infrastructure bodies and provide a clearer route to services for frontline organisations via a sustainable, dynamic central gateway.
- Developing a range of tools for infrastructure and frontline organisations of all sizes to measure their social return on investment.
- Developing of a volunteer web portal to become a useful volunteer management tool for groups who involve volunteer.
- Developing a central gateway model for accessing support in order to maximise available resources, share skills and to deliver ‘best value’ for civil society organisations and social enterprises.
- Developing joint marketing of services especially for frontline groups working within equalities and with hard to reach groups.
- Developing new ways of engaging the business sector to help delivber local projects.
- Planning to take advantage of new funding opportunites, such as European funds.
In addition to LCVS | United Way, the partnership comprises of the following organisations: Social Enterprise Network, Volunteer Centre Liverpool, Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, Merseyside Youth Association Ltd, Merseyside Network for Change, Network For Europe, Merseyside Expanding Horizons, Merseyside Disability Federation and Diocese of Liverpool.
Over the next 18 months, the Liverpool partnership, led by LCVS | United Way, aims to ensure that the voluntary sector in Liverpool works together better to deliver services to those most in need and to engage with more people as volunteers, donors, sponsors and supporters to strengthen the sector.
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