National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service

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National Association for Voluntary and Community
Action ? local focus national voice
NAVCA Projects, NAVCA Projects riding through the
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Welcome to Sherwood CVS
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Local Commissioning and Procurement Unit

• Aims to increase local infrastructure
  organisations capacity to
• Influence commissioning and procurement policies
  at a local level.
• Influence commissioning and procurement practices
  at a local level.
• Provide support to local voluntary and community
  organisations so that they can tender for public
  service delivery .
• Provide support to local voluntary and community
  organisations so that they can be involved in the
  commissioning of public services.

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Improving Local Partnerships Unit
The NAVCA ILP team aims to provide local third
sector and infrastructure organisations with the
skills, knowledge and understanding to be
confident, inclusive and effective
representatives of the local third sector in
Local Area Agreements and other public
partnerships.
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Sports Partnership

• The Sport Partnership Project aims to
• "Embed a culture of collaboration between sport
  and LIOs, so sports clubs can access services
  from LIOs and improve their effectiveness and
  reach"

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Regional ICT Champions

• The aim of the Champions is to ensure that local
  third sector organisations have access to high
  quality advice and support on ICT. They
• Signpost to local providers of ICT advice,
  support and services and impartial source of
  advice on new technology
• Provide sample ICT policies and strategies
• Critical friend over website / computer equipment
  / software procurement quotes and tenders
• Help establish new ICT providers where recognised
  gaps in coverage exist
• Co-ordinate regional and local ICT groups
• Deliver training to development workers

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NAVCA Quality Award

• The Award helps NAVCA member organisations show
  how they are making a difference within the local
  third sector.
• Set against 5 performance standards covering core
  infrastructure services.
• The Award includes all the key areas of work a
  local infrastructure organisation undertakes and
  identifies what it is achieving.

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Learning and Development

• The NAVCA learning offer includes
• SKiLD- highly regarded learning opportunities,
  resources, career progression and networking
  support for local networks for development
  workers
• Regular induction days for new Chief Officers
• Bespoke learning days for LIOs
• Support with learning and development strategies
• Ad hoc learning opportunities including Action
  Learning sets, influencing skills, tendering and
  partnerships to deliver outcomes training and
  Full Cost Recovery training
• Signposting to other learning provision

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Every Child Matters

• The NAVCA Every Child Matters project aims to
  support Local Infrastructure Organisations to
  engage with the Every Child Matters agenda by
• Improving and strengthening involvement of LIOs
  in Children's Trusts.
• Providing information, resources and networking
  opportunities.
• Providing enquiry service for members.

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Reducing Adult Re-offending Project

• NAVCAs new Development Advisor will be working
  with Clinks and other partners in supporting
  offenders and their families.
• This post has been established to enable LIOs to
  be more effective in supporting local third
  sector groups working with offenders and their
  families by
• providing information, resources learning and
  networking opportunities for key staff in LIOs,
  regional and sub-regional bodies.
• raising awareness of the support and services
  available from LIOs to local third sector groups.
• working in collaboration with relevant partners
  to strengthen volunteering work with offenders.

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Empowering the Voluntary Sector project

• The NAVCA and Public Law Project Empowering the
  Voluntary Sector project aims to assist and
  support voluntary sector organisations to
  challenge bad decisions made by public bodies,
  using the principles of public law.
• The project delivers this aim through three
  outputs training, free legal advice and
  newsletters

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