Partnerships and Networks

Are you looking to be better connected into the VCSE community in Barnsley and find out what’s happening? Then you have found the right place.

Barnsley CVS is restructuring how it facilitates meetings for the sector so that its able to provide more efficient targeted support for different sections of the VCSE community, in the firm belief that what is relevant for one organisation may not be relevant to all.

Consequently, the following partnerships / networks may or may not be for you, but there should be something for everyone.

Partnerships Networks Sector Representation

Partnerships

Public and Voluntary Sector Partnership

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Under development.

Partnership Projects

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The Barnsley Refugee Advice Project (BRAP) working in partnership with Barnsley CVS and Refugee Council supports refugees, asylum seekers and the migrant community in the Barnsley area. This support comes in the form of advice, advocacy, awareness raising sessions, community development, promoting volunteering, ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) and helping to make Barnsley more refugee friendly through capacity building and local level systems change.

For more information on this project and the role of Barnsley CVS please email Claire Langley (Volunteer Coordinator) Claire.Langley@RefugeeCouncil.org.uk

Start Well

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These are three membership groups which means that they receive regular targeted communications from Barnsley CVS.

Start Well

The Start Well group aims to support the work and development of VCSE organisations that work with children and young people in Barnsley aged 0-18 years old (25 years for SEND). This group meets bi-monthly. To become a member of the Start Well group please email info@barnsleycvs.org.uk

Start Well Terms of Reference.

The current Chairs of the Start Well group are:

• Andrea Battye, Youth Work Manager, YMCA

• Lesley Pollard, CEO, Chilypep

• Chrissy Sykes, CEO, MBIMB

Youth Alliance

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More information coming soon.

Networks

Leaders about Barnsley (LAB)

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The purpose of this group is to have a central mechanism for engagement with the VCSE CEO’s and Senior Managers in Barnsley to maximise service development, partnership working and peer support for medium to large size groups where the organisations income is above £100k per annum.

To find out more click here.

Quarterly Networking Events

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These events are to bring all our VCSE partners together with a focus on a specific issue and will be advertised on our events page. See what events are happening here (link to events page). We also advertise these through our weekly newsletter.

Not signed up yet? Sign up here.

Bi-monthly VCSE Support Events

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These events are in the early stages of development and will be geographically based with a focus on providing support to small community groups, where the organisation or community group has an income below £100k per annum.

Volunteer Coordinators Meetings

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The purpose of this group is to promote good practice, and shared learning through peer support for Volunteer Coordinators across Barnsley.

Interested? Find out more here.

Sector Representation

Ensuring the VCSE sector is represented

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In addition to the meetings that are facilitated by Barnsley CVS there are a wide range of meetings that are attended by our CEO Lara Bundock to ensure that the VCSE sector is represented at both a local and regional level with statutory partners.

If you haven’t found what you are looking for then please email info@barnsleycvs.org.uk

Partnerships and Networks

Are you looking to be better connected into the VCSE community in Barnsley and find out what’s happening? Then you have found the right place.

Partnerships

Networks

Sector Representation

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