Valuing People report and latest News and Views
Many changes are taking place in the range of opportunities available for people with learning disabilities in Herefordshire. Widemarsh workshops are being redesigned to become a ...

Communities in Control – real people, real power
Communities in Control – real people, real power is the recently released Government White Paper. Its aim is to shift power, influence and responsibility away from existing c...

Chris Bull, Chief Executive of Herefordshire Council, to open VSA 2008 in National Compact Week
The 2008 Voluntary Sector Assembly will be held during National Compact Week, on Tuesday 4 November at Bartestree Village Hall.  Chris Bull, was appointed as Chief Executive ...

Partners for Social Enterprise News
National Social Enterprise Day is taking place on Thursday 20th November. Partners for Social Enterprise will be promoting all events taking place across the three counties during ...

Equipping and Inspiring Leaders
On Thursday, 13 November 2008, Radar Disability Network is running a Leadership Programme in Birmingham designed to increase the number of disabled people in positions of leaders...

Fit 4 Funding_September 2008 Digest
Funding Information from 'Fit 4 Funding' Here is the funding compendium newsletter from the Charities Information Bureau for September 2008. The wording of individual entries ha...

Herefordshire Partnership Summer Newsletter
Herefordshire Partnership has published its summer newsletter with lots of useful information about consultation and the involving people team Patient Advice and L...

Health and Social Care Update
In Herefordshire, The Alliance specialises in developing the capacity of Voluntary and Community Organisations to shape and deliver Social Care services.  On this page you c...

Volunteering Code Consultation begins!
VOLUNTEERING CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE FOR HEREFORDSHIRE Herefordshire Partnership Local Compact Working Group to invite you to take part in a consultation to agree a Volunteering Code...

Myplace - Expressions of Interest Wanted
myplace - youth facilities funding The development of a Herefordshire bid. myplace is a DCSF scheme that aims to deliver world class youth facilities, driven by active participat...

Newsletters and training information
On this page you can download: the July 2008 version of 'News & Views' the newsletter for learning disabilities services in Herefordshire.  It contains latest updates fro...

Shaping our Place 2026 - Consultation on the Local Development Framework Begins!
Consultation The Developing Options Paper consultation is taking place between 16th June and 8th August 2008, and we are inviting you to read the paper and hear your views by com...

Herefordshire's Local Area Agreement sent to Minister for approval
It has been a long journey and a lot of hard work but finally the latest Local Area Agreement between Herefordshire and the Government has been sent to the Minister for approval.&n...

Focus on the Environment in June
With fuel costs and food prices rising, most people are thinking about how they can save energy and £££!  Two events are coming up in June to help us all t...

RAWM Monthly e-Bulletin May 2008
RAWM Monthly e-Bulletin May 2008 Email: rawm@rawm.co.uk  Web: www.rawm.org.uk  Tel: 0121 359 9100 NEWS RAWM News Finance Support Services Vacancy Regional Action W...

Pride of Herefordshire Awards, Fit For Funding, and Capacity Builders
Herefordshire Partnership has launched its Pride of Herefordshire Awards 2008.  Herefordshire Partnership is working closely with the Hereford Journal to promote these awards....

Voluntary Sector to be key partner in supporting the vulnerable
The Long Term Conditions Alliance, as part of the NHS Centre for Involvement, is undertaking a project to promote voluntary sector engagement with Local Involvement Networks. Brend...

Have your say on the Volunteering Compact Code
On the morning of the 9 May 2008 there will be a consultation event about volunteering at the Three Counties Hotel, Belmont Road, Hereford. This workshop is for anyone w...

Informal Adult Learning - Your opportunity to Shape the Way Ahead
Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS) is undertaking a major consultation on the future of informal learning. You or your organisation may have responded al...

VSA Featured in Every Action Counts press release
How green is your office? How green is your office? New guide encourages local organisations to ‘go green’ A new guide is to be published which aims to encourage volu...

The Youth Opportunity & Youth Capital Fund is set to continue!
The Youth Opportunity and Capital Fund scheme will be continuing until 2011. The Government has given Herefordshire Council £450,000 over the next 3 years, to involve young...

Local Area Agreement Indicators Supported
The process of developing the new Local Area Agreement (LAA) took at step forward last Friday (14th) when the Chief Executives’ Group of the Herefordshire Partnership support...

Local Area Agreement Indicators & NI7
Office of the Third Sector Briefing Note: ‘Environment for a thriving third sector’ The Office for the Third Sector has published a briefing for local strategic partn...

Empowerment White Paper Announced
Hazel Blears, Secretary of state for Communities and Local Government, has announced plans for a new White Paper to be published in the summer. The Empowerment White Paper will set...

Regional Action West Midlands publish digest
Regional Action West Midlands exists to make sure that the voluntary and community sector is involved in the decision making and resource allocation processes. They do this by...

Learning Representatives Report
A personal view It seems to me that we need to return to a more hands on local approach where local needs and priorities are identified and funding is allocated to meet local needs...

Fit for Future
Over 80 people attended the VSA/Herefordshire Infrastructure Consortium event on 12 February 2008. The afternoon session was opened by Councillor John Stone, Chairman of Herefords...

Herefordshire Local Compact Published
At last we can announce that the Herefordshire Local Compact has been published and printed copies will be available very soon. The Compact governs partnership working between the...

Consutation on DEFRA, Rural Regeneration Zone and Sub National Review - still time to have your say
Defra is developing a 'Third Sector Strategy'.  The term Third Sector is used to describe the Voluntary and Community Sector, including organisations such as Social Enterprise...

Is Your Organisation Fit For the Future?
Come along to the Kindle Centre on 12 February 2008 and get a free check up.We have designed this event for committee members, volunteers and staff of charities, voluntary and...

Herefordshire Exchange Dates announced
Herefordshire Exchange Event will be held on 10 Dec 2007.  This is your chance to discuss the indicators that will be used to measure progress.  Working to deliver...

Herefordshire Partnership Newsletter
It's time to report back on the year gone bye.  Herefordshire Partnership reports back here on its Development Plan for 2006-2007.  You can also read their Autumn Newslet

Empowering the Voluntary Sector - October Newsletter and others
The Empowering the Voluntary Sector is a NAVCA Project to raise awareness of how to successfully challenge Public Service decisions. The October edition includes an article a...

Draft of new Local Area Agreement priorities published
The Local Area Agreement is a contract between our Local Strategic Partnership - Herefordshire Partnership and Government on targets that will be delivered at a local level. The P...

Updates from Capacity Builders and Fit4Funding
The Voluntary Sector Assembly receives lots of information from a wide range of sources.  This week we have had the latest Capacity Builders (funder of infrastructure) update ...

Rural Regeneration Zone September update
The September edition of the Rural Regeneration Zone newsletter contains information about the Nexus Programme, their Redundant Buildings Grant, multi-use facilites and much, much ...

Partnership launches strategy for older people
 "Growing Older in Herefordshire", Herefordshire Partnership's  latest strategy  is an easy nine page read, with an appendix on how the strategy was develo...

Want Funding from the LSC if so you need to complete their PreQualification Questionnaire by 28 Sept
The LSC has recently held a number of events to publicise the new procurement round for 2008/09. Any organisations (including the third sector) must complete the Pre Qualification ...

Round-up of latest from HIRN, Capacity Builders and RAWM
Lots of organisations send useful information to the Voluntary Sector Assembly Co-ordinator.  Here is a tase of what has come in recently. Herefordshire Information and Resea...

VSA Summer Newsletter
Read all about the latest news from the VSA in the summer edition of our newsletter. Also on this page you can down load the fit for funding newsletter and VSA response to&nb...

New funding for Youth Opportunities
Herefordshire has been given £300,000 over two years to increase the number of places young people can to do things. The project is aimed at young people aged between 13 - ...

Destination 2014 - Capacity Builders strategy launched
Capacity Builders held their annual conference in Birmingham at the Botanical Gardens on 3 July.  They used the occassion to launch their strategy 'Destination 2014' for del...

Assembly praise from Partnership - LAA update and NAVCA Public Law Project latest
The summer edition of the Herefordshire Partnership Newsletter has lots of interesting information including a review of the presentations given at our latest Assembly, (June 2007)...

Capacity Builders - Destination 2014 read on
On Tuesday 5 July, your VSA Co-ordinator went to the AGM of Capacity Builders in Birmingham.  Capacity Builders have been set up by the Cabinet Office to deliver the proposals...

Catch up on all the latest news from your VSA Reps
VSA Representative Reports for 2007 Read about plans for the 'Single Pot', a pooled funding source that will be allocated through Herefordshire Partnership.  ...

Special Assembly Newsletter - download it here
Download here the special edition of the Voluntary Sector Assembly Newsletter, which should have reached you this week.  Inside you will find the latest update on the l...

Chief Executives latest report
Richard Quallington has posted his latest report from the Chief Executives Group.  You can read all about it by following the link above.

Destination 2014 - the story so far
Capacity Builders, formerly known as Change-up, is consulting about what support we think is needed as well as the future direction of the Voluntary and Community sector.  Thi...

Latest from our Economic Development Rep
Geoff Tunstall our Economic Development Representative will be standing down from the VSA this summer.  Geoff has had such success with Workmatch in Hereford, that he has been...

Smoke Free Herefordshire is almost here!
Smoking will be banned in public and work spaces from 1 July 2007 onwards bringing England into line with the rest of the UK. This will affect Voluntary and Community Groups in as ...

Newsletters that matter
Attached are the latest newsletters from: Herefordshire Partnership, which gives our next Assembly on 7 June a plug, so well done to our friends at Plough Lane Fit-for...

VSA March Newsletter in the post to you this week
Our latest VSA newsletter should be landing on your doorsteps this week.  If you have not received a copy you can down load it here, or alternatively you can call Susan Black ...

Chief Executives Group elects new chair!
.Here is the full report of the 2 February 07 meeting of the Chief Executives Group from Richard Quallington.  It contains updates on the work of Herefordshire Infrastruc...

Personal Reflections on the Performance Management Group
The Performance Management Group (PMG) met in January. Here I would like to give you some personal reflections on the PMG. The PMG holds potentially a very challenging role and m...

Increasing the number of Volunteers in Herefordshire
Increasing the number of Volunteers in Herefordshire As part of the government funded Local Area Agreement with Herefordshire Council there is a target to increase volunteering in ...

Latest update from our Representatives
The next VSA newsletter will be on its way to your door very soon. We only give a short summary of the reports from our representatives in the newsletter but you can get the f...

New on our web pages
Hello from your new VSA Co-ordinator My name is Susan Black.  I took over from Sue Brazendale at the end of January.  I am keeping Sue's old email address and number so ...

HM Treasury Visit to Herefordshire
Herefordshire Voluntary Action hosted one of only seven local consultation events being held in England to discuss the future of the 'third sector'.  This consultation links t...

Voluntary Sector Assembly News
The third edition of the VSA News contains information on what is happening in the voluntary sector. Reports from the VSA Representatives The Herefordshire Consortium...

The State of Herefordshire Report 2006
This report is now published, it has been produced by Herefordshire Partnership Research Officers. It provides data, facts and figures on Herefordshire. The detail in the report ha...