Changes in the Children’s Centre structure and funding have brought uncertainty in the early years’ sector and many community venues have closed. Enfield Voluntary Action shares with us their innovative ‘discover and share’ project, which is making a positive impact to the lives of young parents in the borough.
Small voluntary sector organisations play an important role for London’s residents. Working at a ‘hyper local’ level, often run by volunteers and with very little public funding they are a lifeline to communities that public bodies see as ‘hard to reach’ and are able to achieve a significant impact for the individuals they support.
At their current rate of spend in 2017, Greenwich CVS would cease to exist by 2020. However, Greenwich CVS have survived funding cuts of over 50% due to merging with METRO. METROGAVs share their learning from the merging process with us.
London Plus are working with Pilotlight to support two Voluntary Sector Consortia as part of a development programme addressing the growth of consortium working by infrastructure organisations in London.
Thank you to our guest presenters Amanda Lamb (Team London), Farah Elahi (GLA), Kate White (Superhighways) and Karen Chillman (Croydon Volunteer Centre) for delivering such interesting presentations at our 2018 AGM. Download the resources mentioned at the event including the community life survey and useful data source resource.