Develop Enhancing Community Support
Providing services and a voice to voluntary organisations & community groups to support and enhance their development in Wiltshire & B&NES Services and support DEVELOP Enhancing Community Support promotes and enhances the effectiveness of local voluntary and community groups by providing them with a range of services.
These include access to basic facilities, such as meeting rooms, photocopiers and ICT equipment and more involved services such as group support, networking opportunities and funding advice. DEVELOP also support local groups through regular e-newsletters, training courses, recruitment advertising, signposting and much more. Liaison As a focal point for the local voluntary and community sector, DEVELOP Enhancing Community Support encourages networking between individuals and groups within the sector, and between local groups and the statutory and private sectors. This allows local groups to learn from one another, establish contacts and work more effectively. We also help different communities to organise their own networking activity. Representation With government encouraging involvement of voluntary and community groups in shaping and delivering services, DEVELOP Enhancing Community Support enables the views of local groups to be represented. For example, through our Community Lunches and Forums which provide an opportunity for local groups to put forward their views on local and national policies.
Development work over the years, the local voluntary and community sector has pioneered some of the essential public services that we now take for granted. Child protection and care for the elderly, for example, had their origins in, and were developed by, the voluntary sector. This tradition has continued into the 21st century, and today DEVELOP Enhancing Community Support takes the lead in identifying gaps in service provision and work with groups to develop new and innovative services to meet these needs. Strategic partnerships DEVELOP Enhancing Community Support works in partnership with local government and other statutory agencies to shape the delivery of services.
We play a key role in empowering local groups to take part in partnerships and are directly involved in a wide range of regeneration, neighbourhood renewal, health and social care, learning and other government initiatives. Strategic partnerships may be sub-regional, district wide or neighbourhood. They may cover several issues or have a particular focus.
Contact name
Janice Fortune
Address
3-4 New Road
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN15 1EJ
Tel
01249 654089
Fax
01249 656969
Email
enquiries@developecs.org.uk
Web
http://www.developecs.org.uk/