VCS EngageThe Sector Led Plan

Help create a plan for the future of the voluntary and community sector in Norfolk.

Jon Clemo, Chief Executive, Norfolk RCC

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Agenda

• Overview of the sector led plan and VCS Engage programme

• Exercise - What are my Issues

• Break

• Exercise - What does good look like?

• Exercise - Building the right interfaces

• Questions and Close

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A New Programme – VCS Engage

• Three year programme of investment to enhance the dialogue between the voluntary and community sector and Norfolk County Council

• Reduced overall funding

• Based on CCG geography with a specialist strand relating to children and young people

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NCC Programme

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Lead Bodies

• West Norfolk – West Norfolk Voluntary and Community Action (WNVCA)

• North Norfolk, South Norfolk and Norwich –Norfolk RCC leading a partnership with NSP

• Children and Young People – Momentum Norfolk

• Great Yarmouth to be done at a later date

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Joint Declaration - Working together and locally focused

Working on behalf of a large and diverse sector.

A commitment from the three lead organisations to work together, collaborate, undertaking joint activity, sharing information and resources for the benefit of the sector whilst retaining strong tailored approaches to meet the needs of different areas and groups.

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Challenge and Opportunity

• Hugely Challenging

• The sector’s diversity and scale both a challenge and a strength

• Will not get it all right

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Our Approach

• Core communications and policy hub

• Pro-active evidence base

• Best placed people approach to representation

• Building the correct interfaces

• Partner Exchange Service

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Our Priorities

• Sector Led Plan

• Upstream Conversation

• Creating the right interfaces

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Why a Sector Led Plan

• Want to ensure that when we speak on behalf of the sector we are supported by strong evidence

• That we are working on the right priorities on your behalf

• That we are proactive in addressing these priorities

• Help us understand how best to work together

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The process

Initial Engagementactivities that help highlight the issues and

provide qualitative depth of

understanding

Quantitative Survey built

using the understanding of the issues

Clear evidence base of quantitative and qualitative information available to all

Developing Solutions &

Priorities based on the evidence

Communicating and delivering

on solutions and priorities

Steering Group

Nov-Dec Feb March April-May June

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About today

• First stage in the process

• Designed to help us understand what the key issues are so we know the key questions to ask

• Help provide the depth of understanding

• Around 150 organisations taking part across 8 events

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What are my issues!?

• Spend 5 minutes writing down all the issues you think are important on the post-it notes provided.

• We will use all of these as part of the evidence gathering process so please write them down in a way that can be understood by others!

• To help stimulate your ideas….think about issues that relate to you as an individual within the sector, your organisation and the area of your activity (community, young people, older people etc). Are these related to day to day operational issues, the result of specific strategies/policies or wider issues with the way the system works or how we approach/perceive certain issues?

• Now with the person sat next to you spend 15min identifying a single top 5 issues between you.

• Finally as a table spend 20 min identifying your top 5 issues as a table.

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What does good look like?

• Tables A: in terms of VCS infrastructure support

• Tables B: in terms of overall services and support available to people

• Two columns– What already works well

– What needs to change for the future

• Change part way through – Add extra to the sheets

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The Right Interfaces

• We want to facilitate the building of strong, productive and collaborative interfaces with the sector and NCC to address important issues and span three key levels:– The shaping of strategic thinking to collaboratively

develop the future landscape of Norfolk.– Supporting the development of the mechanisms for

the effective translation of that strategic vision into delivery.

– Operational collaboration, coordination and integration to ensure effective, user centred, on the ground delivery.

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Stay Involved

• Watch out for updates on mailings

• Stay in touch by registering at www.norfolkrcc.org.uk/vcsengage

• Opportunity to join small steering group to help guide the plan’s development, provide feedback and bring your personal insight into the process