Cornwall Campaigning Action Group (CCAG), the social policy arm of Citzens Advice Bureau (CAB) Cornwall, has published an interesting report exploring access to hospital treatment for people living in rural areas.
The report’s headline states “Over 10% of people in Cornwall have to use credit or savings to travel to hospital.”
Aug 2
This research report takes a qualitative look at people’s feelings of influence. It uses the Values Modes methodology, which looks at how the values that we each hold impact on our feelings and views about the world.
The report is the result of qualitative research into feelings of influence, carried out by The Campaign Company on behalf of the London Empowerment Partnership.
It highlights that residents have different values and these inform their feelings and mean that they approach issues in different ways.
The summary report highlights the recommendations under the headings of:
• understanding motivations and expectations
• breaking down cultural barriers
• enhancing front line engagement
• integrating communication
• people and outcomes first, mechanisms afterwards
• taking influence beyond the town hall.
Its key findings include:
• most people are interested in reactive influence, solving particular problems, and may not be satisfied with their experiences in this regard
• many mechanisms used by local authorities are proactive, so looking to address wider issues. Those people who do seek to have a proactive influence, are often attempting to address issues which are outside the scope of local institutions
• this results in an ‘influence gap’
• people cite the biggest factors to not getting involved are lack of information and not having been approached to take part.
The Cornwall Infrastructure Partnership report on The Needs Of The Voluntary And Community Sector In Cornwall is now available online here.
A collaboration between Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum, East Cornwall CVS, PCDT and Inter-Link, the research was commissioned by the infrastructure organisations to determine the needs of the voluntary sector organisations they serve.
Jul 14
The benefits of effective partnership working between local government and the voluntary and community sector.
Last year, Local Government Improvement and Development (previously the IDeA) commissioned the Young Foundation to do some research. This examined the vital role the voluntary and community sector (VCS) plays in fostering and promoting strong community cohesion. Equally importantly, the research also highlighted the role that local government plays in supporting this through effective partnership, engagement and funding arrangements.
A community development approach to funding means an open, transparent and fair approach that meets the needs of the community, as identified by the community that the grant fund is targeted at.
Funding Communities, Adding Value will help local funders be more effective at in the current challenging climate.
Drawing on Community Development Foundation’s (CDF’s) wealth of experience in the field, this new funding guide talks you through every aspect of CD-based funding:
Sep 16
As part of a package of support from Government to help maximise the social value the third sector creates, the Office of the Third Sector (OTS) has published three tailored guides to Social Return on Investment (SROI), which supplement A guide to Social Return on Investment, published in May 2009.
The guides are part of the OTS Measuring Social Value project, which aims to encourage wider use of SROI, through making it more accessible and more cost effective for organisations and more attractive to investors, funders and commissioners.
‘Social Return on Investment – an introduction’ gives an overview of SROI, what it can do for organisations, commissioners and investors and signposts where more information and support can be found.
‘Social Return on Investment and commissioning’ explains how SROI can be used by commissioners and helps commissioners to use SROI to achieve more social value when commissioning services.
‘Social Return on Investment – for social investing’ explains how SROI can be used by investors if they want to integrate SROI approaches into investment decisions to help them decide which investment will achieve the most social impact.
http://www.sroi-uk.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
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