Putting the CVS network

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Putting the CVS network at the heart of the SVA
programme Paul White Director of Networks
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Towards a shared understanding

• Avoid the Schleswig-Holstein question!
• Only three people understood the
  Schleswig-Holstein question. The first was
  Albert, the Prince Consort and he is dead the
  second is a German professor, and he is in an
  asylum and the third was myself and I have
  forgotten it.

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A common direction of travel

• SVA is a journey, not an event
• We need willing travellers partners to help us
  navigate
• Berths for passengers are limited there is a
  shared responsibility to crew the ship
• The CVS network must be at the heart of SVA,
  charting direction to an agreed destination where
  the climate is favourable

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Landmarks build confidence

• Avanté Consulting Needs Analysis (Aug 07)
• Proposed increase in CVS membership of SVA
  Management Group shift to consensus model of
  decision making (Sept 07)
• Carpe Diem event (Dec 07)
• Election of CVS members to SVA MG (Jan 08)
• Shared commitment to mediation (Jan 08 gt)

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At the heart of management

• SVA Management Group has 10 members
• CoSLA, CVS network, Scottish Government, Scottish
  Lottery Officers Group, SCVO, VC network, VDS
• Four of 10 are from CVS network
• Catherine Hughson (Shetland), Gaynor Jones
  (Orkney), Helen Macneil (Glasgow), Selina Ross
  (West Dunbartonshire)

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At the heart of implementation

• SVA Programme team has 3.9 FTE staff
• 2.5 FTE members of the team are from the CVS
  network or have worked for a local intermediary
  organisation
• Ian Bruce
• Donna-Marie McPhail
• Gilbert Grieve

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At the heart of delivery

• Catch the Lights Quality Matters proposal
• Two x 150k pathfinder projects developed by CVS
  in Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling North
  Lanarkshire
• GCVS planning delivery of Quality within the
  Scottish CVS Network

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At the heart of SVA

• SVA MG Principles for Effective Working
• acknowledge that CVS are at the heart of the
  programme
• recognise that building CVS capacity and
  enabling collaboration within the CVS network are
  key objectives
• ensure that all CVS have an opportunity to be
  involvedand are encouraged supported to
  engage

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Delivering Ideas fund

• 100k to help CVS work up delivery programmes
• Series of rolling deadlines first on 6th June
  08
• Supports development of Change Champion project
  and wider delivery proposals
• Information pack ready on 19th May 08
• Bids can be made individually or in partnership

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Change Champion projects

• Resourcing CVS exemplars in specific areas of
  activity
• Promoting learning and replication across the
  network
• Anticipated 30k-80k per project
• Expressions of interest required by 6th June 08

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Enabling commissioning

• Project specification agreed by SVA MG
• Key considerations in commissioning
• Can CVS deliver?
• If yes, invite interest, with support from
  Delivering Ideas fund
• If no, can wider infrastructure deliver?
• If neither, go to open market

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Supporting engagement

• Day rate payments available to recompense CVS for
  project planning and Management Group inputs
• Model to be developed further to recognise
  different types of contribution and different
  types of contributor

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Think tank groups

• Identify customer-focused solutions to current
  and future issues facing the CVS network wider
  infrastructure
• Local Infrastructure Group
• - CVS and Volunteer Centres
• Better Collaborations Group
• - CVS and national intermediary organisations

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Informed and engaged

• Follow progress in e-CVS
• Check SVA website (Google Supporting Voluntary
  Action)
• Look out for regular updates to CVS Chief
  Officers and Chairs
• Schedule discussion at regional network meetings
• Contact SVA Programme Team Management Group

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