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Speaker of the House of Commons Visits Cornwall

Feb 12

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The Rt Hon John Bercow MP was the keynote speaker at ‘Your Voice’, an innovative free conference designed to help you get your voice heard at all political levels.

‘Your Voice’ explored how citizens can get more involved in informing and influencing decision makers.

This is the first major event for Parliamentary Outreach in the South-West as it pioneers better public engagement with what goes on at Westminster.

It provided information about how to take part in decisions which matter to you or may affect your community, and explain how to get your voice heard, and listened to, at all levels from your local council right up to the European Parliament.

More details from  http://takepart.cornwallvsf.org

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Presentations at recent Community Fair

Sep 25

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As promised, here to download are the presentations made by speakers at our recent event, Cornwall Community Fair. This took place at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth. They are formatted as Microsoft Powerpoint documents.

Download a zipped folder of the complete set here: Community Fair presentations

Our latest annual review is now available

Sep 7

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review coverYou can download a copy of our latest annual review from VSF annual review 2009 v8 – it is a pdf document, so you’ll need Adobe Reader to open it.  It covers the period up to our AGM in July and has details of  all our recent events and activities.

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Dame Suzi meets Local Charity Leaders

Feb 13

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Dame Suzi with Martin Pallett, Charity Chief Executives in Cornwall

On Monday Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum sponsored a visit by Dame Suzi Leather, Chair of the Charity Commission, to Cornwall. The visit was organised by Martin Pallett of the Charity Chief Executives in Cornwall group. Details and pictures are available below:

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Stronger Communities: From National Indicators to Local Delivery

Jan 5

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Information from regional conference on 2nd October 2008.

This conference, hosted by South West Forum and supported by Government Office for the South West, Capacitybuilders and Empowering Communities (the regional empowerment partnership), took the form of a day-long workshop for an invited audience of local authority officers, other public sectors and representatives of infrastructure organisations in the voluntary/community sector.

http://www.southwestforum.org.uk/index.php?content=nw_item&news_id=578

Feedback from the VCS Engage event at St Mellion, 18th Sept

Sep 18

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160 people attended the Voluntary and Community Sector ‘Engage’ event at St Mellion to see the launch of a new ‘peninsula’ framework for the commissioning of services for children, young people and families. Diverse groups from Cornwall’s voluntary and community sector were present alongside colleagues from Torbay, Devon and Plymouth to see the document launched and to offer first impresssions of its ‘eight principles for good commissioning.’ Read the rest of this entry »

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