LACVS – LOCAL Project Strategic Launch: A Manifesto For Change
The LACVS LOCAL project inaugural Lancashire 14 wide launch event 6th March 2024 at Deepdale Stadium Invincibles Lounge, Preston
The conference ‘A Manifesto for Change’ covered all the Lancashire 14 area including Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool hosting key speakers around the economy and health, and was an opportunity to engage in multi-sector discussions to identify the change that needs to happen around the VCFSE Manifesto for Lancashire14 priorities.
Please click on each individual workshop to download the pdf summary (v.260424) from the day & actions to take forward:
- Workshop A: Green Communities
- Workshop B: Economic Models that work / Skills and Employment
- Workshop C: Community Wellbeing, Health, and Social Prescribing
- Workshop D: Fairer Funding
- Workshop E: Equality and Social Justice for All
*Thank you to everyone who attended the workshops, we will be in contact very soon to discuss the next steps. Please contact us if you didn’t attend the workshops but would like to be part of the working groups to discuss the next actions and forthcoming events*
Presentation Powerpoint from the day including speakers & slides re devolution:
Further Informations & links:
- Photo & video Credit: Steve Dixon, Lancaster & District CVS
- Booking system – Try Booking, Lancaster Event Ticketing Made Easy – Free For Free Events | TryBooking UK
- Comms and Tech Team – Steve, Lancaster & District CVS, Graham, Community CVS, Rachel, LOCAL Project
- Lancashire Association of Councils for Voluntary Service (LACVS) Welcome to Lancashire Association of Councils for Voluntary Service (LACVS)
- Many thanks to all our workshop facilitators and notetakers
- We are working towards Designing for Accessibility – following the Governments design principles Dos and don’ts on designing for accessibility – Accessibility in government (blog.gov.uk) We want our LOCAL website & communications to look & feel as accessible as possible.
Many thanks to the 46 organisations & 75 individuals from across Lancashire 14 who joined us on Wednesday 6th March 2024 at Preston North End Invincibles Lounge for the LACVS – LOCAL Project Strategic Launch: A Manifesto for Change. We thank you for your time and valuable insights.
An inclusive Future CIC, Blackpool CAB, BPRCVS, Citizens UK, Community CVS, Community Foundation Lancashire & Merseyside, Community Futures, Deputy Chief Crime Commissioner, Disability Equality NW, DWP, Eric Wright Charitable Trust, Fylde Council, Hyndbirn and Ribble Valley CVS, ICANN, IMO & Calico, Independent Community Advocacy Network North, Ingol and Tanterton Community Trust (INTACT), Lancashire & Cumbria ICB, Lancashire BME Network, Lancashire County Council, Lancashire Forum of Faiths, Lancashire Lieutenancy, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Lancashire Women, Lancaster CVS, Lets Grow Preston, Mark Kendrick MP, National Churches Trust, Nelson & Colne College Group, NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB, No Whispers CIC, Preston City Council, Preston Community Network, Preston Co-op Development Network, Preston Volunteers, Pukar Disability Centre, Soil Association, Spring North, The National Lottery Community Fund, Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW), Volunteer Centre Blackpool Wyre & Fylde, West Lancashire CVS, Wyre Council, Yakub Patel, Z’s Defence Academy