A VCFSE Sector Manifesto for Lancashire

We should work with partners to develop ways of tackling and addressing poverty in Lancashire 14. There is a clear need for an anti-poverty strategy and we should play a leading role in convening and driving this…..read more

Lancashire Anti-Poverty Network Established in partnership with Resolve Poverty

Community based answers to digital exclusion, fuel poverty and food poverty

Levelling up in Lancashire 14: Recognise and build an equal partnership with the public and private sectors to build a better Lancashire 14. This should recognise our fundamental role in making ‘levelling up’ work in reality….read more

Corporate Social Responsibility: Working with the private sector to deliver workshops ????

Proud of Lancashire’s VCFSE Sector – The State of the Sector Survey results and event – coming soon

VCFSE Access to Economic Investment: Work with partners to secure adequate investment and freedoms to invest in addressing economic challenges in Lancashire 14. The principle of localism and local knowledge in what works and how to implement should be a core principle of our partnerships across and in Lancashire 14. ….read more

Community Wealth Building – working with partners to look at how we can keep ???

Models of person and community-centred approaches to joined up, local integrated working built around citizens. ….read more

Working with partners to develop peer support for VCFSE staff building community led activity and community development

• Reimagine public spaces to create community ownership and pride
• Develop community food supply chains 
• Create a Green Lancashire 14 Network
• Green Prescribing……read more

Develop Community Food Supply Chains through links between the Farming Community and Charitable Food Support Organisations

A Green Lancashire Network: Working with partners to establish a Lancashire Resilient Food Network

• Promote Social Prescribing: Increase understanding of the benefits of social prescribing across the VCFSE and public sectors.

• Build a transparent, familiar Lancashire Social Prescribing (SP) System: This needs to be more than just investment in link workers and should be delivered in collaboration with networks resourced and able to share their experiences……read more

There is an abundance of evidence to show that patients and clients are more likely to improve and sustain their health and wellbeing if they can do so with people they know, in a place they know and at a price they can
afford. No jargon, no complicated medical explanations, no ‘professional speak’ just people. This is where the voluntary, community and faith groups come in. This is why the ICB continues to invest in those small local groups by providing a funding programme to support their activity, and a Social Prescribing Team who work directly with the patients…. Read More & download full report

Build a stronger working relationship between the VCFSE sector and Lancashire’s Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) in order to support stronger and safer communities…..read more

• Use the VCFSE sector to help make enhancing the employability of young people a priority. With partners, build evidence base of volunteering as a way into employment.
• Build routes from volunteering into employment eg interview training, CV development, etc. Internally, offering job opportunities to volunteers…..read more

Working with Volunteering for Health to create a Vision for Volunteering in Lancashire

Co-design funding in Lancashire. Review of current model of giving, fundraising and donations to the sector across Lancashire 14…..read more

Working with charitable trusts and private sector CSR to bring greater resources in to areas across Lancashire

Access to knowledge, skills and connections between the VCFSE groups & organisations and grant funders (local & national):

• The National Lottery Awards for All: Environment funding – VIDEO
• Funding Fairs across Lancashire 14
• Workshops delivered through Corporate Social Responsibility