Alliances Archive | Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum

Our alliance structure

Our alliances enable VCSE organisations, groups and individuals to come together to:

share challenges and opportunities
provide peer support
lobby
collaborate with each other and our statutory sector partners.

We use these forums to bid for funding, design services, collaborate on issues of sector importance, undertake research and lobby for change.

WILD Young Parents Project at Eden Project to celebrate 30 years of WILD. Image shows CEO Jo Davies giving heartfelt thanks to the young parents and children who help change the world.

Our Strategic Alliance

The Strategic Alliance in Cornwall is made up of community organisation leaders.

Our CEO, Emma Rowse chairs the Strategic Alliance.

In 2020, when the pandemic began, Cornwall VSF formed this Alliance to help communities that were affected the most.

Each member of the Strategic Alliance is a system leader who represents part of the community sector.

Image shows Peter Giddings, the area manager for Biffa who asked people in his team to donate Easter eggs. He then reached out to our Food Access Alliance and some other amazing charities in Cornwall.

Our thematic alliances

Our thematic alliances come together around a specific theme. For example, to eradicate homelessness, food poverty, or to support people with a disability. Thematic alliances also help charities to strengthen their engagement and work together to improve outcomes for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly residents.

Each thematic alliance is chaired by a leader of a community organisation in Cornwall, voted in as Chair by members of the alliance. Alliances receive support from Cornwall VSF in the form of a dedicated Engagement Officer. We also add communications support and financial remuneration for their time and commitment to the cause.