What IS the Voluntary and Community Sector made of

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What IS the Voluntary and Community Sector made
of?

• And why is that?

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A bit of an introduction

• Chief Executive and founder in 1991 of ETEC, a
  not for profit organisation based in the East End
  of Sunderland but working across the City and
  North East of England. ETEC as a successful
  social enterprise was a winner of the Inner City
  100 in 2001 as one of the fastest growing
  companies in Inner Cities. ETEC employs over 50
  people. ETEC has recently become a Development
  Trust and a charity providing community support
  and learning including construction
  apprenticeships for excluded young people,
  qualifications in community development, play
  work, IT and Skills for Life. ETEC also provides
  services such as Toy Libraries, Recycling stores,
  painting and decorating for elderly and disabled
  people. It also has projects connecting people
  back in to work particularly working with Carers
  and ex carers. Its buildings in the area act as
  hubs for local support and include a community
  cafe project. ETEC provides training in
  Community Development across the region through
  Train to Gain and has a large Skills for Life
  team.
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• Dick has worked as a community worker for over 35
  years, 30 of them in the East End of Sunderland,
  working for 3 local authorities (Salford,
  Leicester and Sunderland), and a Sunderland
  Charity (East Community Association). He also
  worked as an independent consultant from 1990 to
  1998 before taking up a full time role as Chief
  Executive with ETEC. He has a Degree in
  Sociology and Psychology from Salford University
  and a Post Graduate Diploma from University of
  Edinburgh in Community Development, and completed
  the Key Executive programme at Harvard Business
  School in 2002.
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• Dick has worked to develop many local, regional
  and national initiatives. Creating community
  arts projects and play and youth projects such as
  Hendon Young Peoples Project to the creation and
  founding of the Federation of Community Work
  Training Groups (now Federation for Community
  Development Learning FCDL) in 1980 to Standing
  Conference for Community Development (SCCD now
  Community Development Exchange - CDX) which he
  chaired from 1991 to 94. More recently Dick was
  the Chair of PAULO. The body previously
  responsible for the development and endorsement
  of the National Occupational Standards in
  Community Development Work, Youth Work and
  Community Based Adult Learning. Paulo is now
  part of LLUK the Sector Skills Council for
  Lifelong Learning and Dick is a Council Member
  and sits on the Executive Committee and Chairs
  the Community Learning and Development
  Constituency Panel.
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• Regionally Dick is the Company Secretary of
  CWACNEE (Community Work Assessment Consortium
  North East England) that brings together many
  local organisations and agencies from throughout
  the region to support community Development
  learning and qualifications.
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• In Sunderland Dick helped establish the Voluntary
  Sector Partnership in 1994 and sat on the City
  Partnership over several years representing the
  sector. Dick chaired the VSP from 2000 to 2004.
  Dick also chairs Sunderland YWCA Ltd., a local
  charity working with young people.
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• Dick is married to Gwen who works with the
  Strategic Health Authority in Newcastle they have
  two children Branwen 22 and Bryn 25. Interests
  include reading, DIY, cooking and falling off
  snowboards.

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This bits much more interesting
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Important Questions

• Whats the lunch going to like?
• Whens this guy going to stop talking so I can
  get my lunch?
• Which way were the toilets?
• How am I going to get back to collect the kids
  this afternoon?
• Where are we going to get some more funding from?

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Why are we here?

• Where do we get our energy from?
• Why do we do these things?
• How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin
• Why do we have to fill in these monitoring forms?

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Who are we? Our words
Dynamic
Dramatic
Devoted
Diplomatic
Dutiful
Dependable
Daring
Diverse
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Who are we? Others words

• Dreadful
• Devious
• Dangerous
• Dramatic
• Depressed
• Dinky
• Dupes
• Dull

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Why do we do it?

• Values
• Whose values?

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What we need is a bit of Liberation

• What we need is a bit of Liberation
• It means we no longer have control that lies with
  the person / people liberated
• It does not guarantee that person / people will
  then act in a good way
• Kind of sounds good though
• Maybe we need some clear values

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WHY?

• Working with people as they liberate themselves
  from imposed poverty and inequality by providing
  the best learning experience possible, engaging
  individuals and communities in an open and
  friendly way.

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Values

• Equality and Anti-discrimination
• Community Development practice challenges
  structural inequalities and discriminatory
  practices. Community Development recognises that
  people are not the same, but they are all of
  equal worth and importance and therefore entitled
  to the same degree of respect and acknowledgement.

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Values

• Social Justice
• The aim of increasing social justice is an
  essential element of Community Development
  practice. It involves identifying and seeking to
  alleviate structural disadvantage and advocating
  strategies for overcoming exclusion,
  discrimination and inequality.

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Values

• Collective Action
• Community Development practice is essentially
  about working with and supporting groups of
  people, to increase their knowledge, skills and
  confidence so they can develop an analysis and
  identify issues which can be addressed through
  collective action.

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Values

• Community Empowerment
• Community Development practice seeks the
  empowerment of individuals and communities,
  through using the strengths of the community to
  bring about desired changes. It involves
  supporting people to become critical, creative,
  liberated and active participants, enabling them
  to take more control over their lives, their
  communities and their environment. This process
  is based on mutual respect and equal and genuine
  partnerships between all those involved.

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Values

• Working and Learning Together
• Community Development practice promotes a
  collective process which enables participants to
  learn from reflecting on their experiences for
  example, examining to what extent particular
  activities helped them to achieve their aims, how
  well they had identified the needs, and what they
  could have done differently. Community
  Development learning is based on participatory
  and experiential processes with the aim of
  improving future Community Development practice.
  Community Development learning and Community
  Development practice are inseparable, the
  practice informs the learning in an ongoing
  cycle.

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Values

• All aspects of our work must contribute to people
  learning and provide this with a flexible and
  friendly atmosphere
• We believe in social justice and recognise that
  difference, diversity and equality of opportunity
  are paths to achieving this
• We should treat the world with care and use
  environmentally friendly processes where ever
  possible
• We value our staff as being the key asset in our
  organisation and believe that their learning and
  development is central to ETECs success
• We recognise the diverse nature of communities
  and we believe that working in partnership with
  them is the key to success
• We recognise each individual matters, we believe
  that all people have potential, should be able to
  choose their own futures and we will endeavour to
  support them for as long as is appropriate
• We are committed to the engagement and benefit of
  existing communities and their changing needs and
  helping individuals to participate within their
  community
• Our independence and financial stability are key
  factors in maintaining sustainability

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Some simple rules and thoughts

• If in doubt act
• Do something, because to do nothing sides with
  the oppressor
• The VCS is core to people taking control of their
  own lives and making change
• It can bring about change for individuals, groups
  and communities
• We need more action not less

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The promise
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The proposed delivery
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An expert designs
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Health and safety have a go
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What we end up with
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Why couldnt we do this ourselves?
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Links

• http//www.lluk.org/national-occupational-standard
  s.htm
• http//www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/news/civil-society/good
  -society