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New Voluntary and Community Sector Partnership Board meets for the first time

Communities Minister Andrew Stunell has announced the line-up of the Department바카라 사이트™s expanded Voluntary and Community Sector Partnership Board 바카라 사이트¦

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Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local 바카라 사이트 (2018 to 2021) and Andrew Stunell OBE
Published
13 December 2011
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Communities Minister Andrew Stunell has announced the line-up of the Department바카라 사이트™s expanded Voluntary and Community Sector Partnership Board to take on new members drawn from the voluntary sector, including grassroots organisations, innovators and local authorities.

Recognising the crucial role the sector has to play as communities are given new freedoms to achieve their own ambitions, the expanded board will share their on the ground expertise and intelligence on how policies are being delivered, generate new ideas in taking forward strategic challenges, and raise any concerns over progress or barriers to delivery.

Andrew Stunell said:

I would like to thank all members who have served on the Board to date. Their contribution to the Department바카라 사이트™s thinking has been much valued and is an example of how 바카라 사이트 and the Voluntary and Community Sector can work together to meet common objectives.

Now that the Localism Act has been passed I바카라 사이트™ve announced the line-up of the Department바카라 사이트™s expanded Voluntary and Community Sector Partnership Board to include councils, funders and innovators. The new Board will focus on implementation and innovation as communities are given the freedom and flexibility to achieve their own ambitions from the running of local services, given a greater influence over housing and planning decisions and the right to have a fair chance to bid to take over land and buildings that are important to them.

The restructured Board바카라 사이트™s involvement will focus on the following key policies:

  • Neighbourhoods: Aiming to ensure that citizens are able to make the best of their communities, with neighbourhoods as the building blocks for action
  • Big Society / community rights: Trusting people to take control of the decisions that affect them by devolving power closer to neighbourhoods
  • Planning: Giving local people and communities more ability to shape the places in which they live by radically reforming the planning system
  • Housing: Meeting people바카라 사이트™s housing aspirations and promoting social mobility; and
  • Integration: Creating the conditions for a more integrated society through promoting common ground, responsibility and engagement and empowerment

The newly restructured board met for the first time on 9 December.

The new Board is made up of the following organisations:

  • Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) -  (external link)
  • Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) -  (external link)
  • British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) -  (external link)
  • Civic Voice -  (external link)
  • Community Development Finance Association (CDFA) -  (external link)
  • Faith-Based Regeneration Network -  (external link)
  • Housing Associations바카라 사이트™ Charitable Trust (HACT) -  (external link)
  • ³¢´Ç³¦²¹±ô¾±³Ù²âÌý-  (external link)
  • National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) -  (external link)
  • National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) -  (external link)
  • Social Enterprise UK -  (external link)
  • St Peter바카라 사이트™s Partnerships -  (external link)
  • UnLtd -  (external link)
  • Urban Forum -  (external link)
  • Volunteering England -  (external link)
  • Young Advisors바카라 사이트™ Charity -  (external link)
  • Your Square Mile -  (external link)

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Published 13 December 2011