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01. The Board’s roles
The VCSE Partnership Board’s aim is to build collaborative partnerships, develop a strong and resilient VCSE sector, and to grow a legacy of volunteering.
It has five key roles:
- To provide senior representation of key Bucks VCSE organisations for strategic and tactical ‘call to action’, focussed on solutions for those at greater risk of disadvantage, detriment or harm in Buckinghamshire’s communities.
- To share accountability for the effective delivery of the VCSE Strategic Framework and related Action Plans – read the Buckinghamshire Council Voluntary Community Sector Strategy 2021-24.
- To help create and embed collaborative relationships between VCSE organisations, Buckinghamshire Council, Community Boards and Buckinghamshire Strategic Partners.
- To focus on maximising resources, including identifying opportunities for codesign and efficiency, mobilising volunteers and targeting investment through whole system collaboration.
- To plan, enable and facilitate more joined-up thinking to address emerging priority needs in a more coordinated manner.
Read the VCSE Partnership Board’s full Terms of Reference
02. Who are the members of the VCSE Partnership Board?
The VCSE Partnership Board reflects the varied and diverse elements within the not-for-profit sector in Buckinghamshire.
Board members are mostly leaders from strategic organisations working countywide, with smaller organisations’ perspectives guiding discussions through feedback from subgroups, external boards and the Local Voluntary Sector Networks.
Key members
- Chair (elected every 2 years): Mark Ormerod, CEO, Leap
- Vice Chair (elected every 2 years): Katie Higginson, CEO, Community Impact Bucks
- Cabinet Member for Communities at Buckinghamshire Council: Cllr Arif Hussain
- Head of Partnerships and Community Boards at Buckinghamshire Council: Wendy Morgan-Brown
- Local Partnership Manager (VCSE Liaison Lead) at Buckinghamshire Council: Gail Hudson
Chairs of sub-groups and VCSE nominated representatives on external boards
- Health and Wellbeing Board
- BOB VCSE Health Alliance
- Buckinghamshire Strategic Funders Group
- Bucks Data Exchange
- Financial Insecurity and Welfare
- Healthy Ageing Collaborative: Mark Russell, Age UK Bucks
- Levelling Up Board
- Children’s Partnership Board
- Youth Consortium
Thematic area representative leads
- Finance and financial inclusion
- Health and Wellbeing
- Culture and Leisure
- Volunteering
- Social Isolation and Inclusion
- Vulnerable Groups for example, disability groups
- Faith groups
- Wider minority communities
- Other boards and working groups as agreed.
03. How can I get involved?
Find out how to join the next Local Voluntary Sector Network meeting - visit our Local Voluntary Sector Network page.
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