Infrastructure Development

Simon Hebditch, Chief Executive of Capacity Builders, speaks at the ChangeUp, Up and Away Showcase event in April 2006

Voluntary Sector Infrastructure is the support that helps frontline voluntary organisations delivering services to do their best for the individual people and communities they serve. Organisations of all sizes need assistance to deal with new legislation, responding to government policy and changes in funding programmes. New organisations may need support with governance or organisational structure. These are just some of the services that infrastructure organisations provide for frontline voluntary and community groups.

The infrastructure network ranges from community action centres through to district wide Councils for Voluntary Service and beyond to specialist support organisations such as Rural Community Councils, Funding Advice Services and Community Accounting Services. As the regional voice of the voluntary sector, the Regional Forum joins these thematic and geographic networks together and makes the connections to other regions and national voluntary sector networks.

This work is vital but because much of it goes on between organisations it is invisible. Investment in voluntary sector infrastructure helps to support the whole voluntary and community sector and current government support for the sector is channelled through the ChangeUp programme. ChangeUp is managed at arms length from the Government by Capacitybuilders

For more information about ChangeUp in the Yorkshire and Humber region, please contact Mark Crowe - Head of Development on 0113 394 2300 or email: mark.crowe@regionalforum.org.uk Ruth Beattie - Development Officer, Infrastructure on 0113 394 2300 or email: ruth.beattie@regionalforum.org.uk

For information about Capacitybuilders in Yorkshire and the Humber contact the Capacity Builders Regional Co-ordinators, Neil Bennett and Sandra Beighton, at neil.bennett@capacitybuilders.org.uk or sandra.beighton@capacitybuilders.org.uk

For more general information about ChangeUp visit www.changeup.org.uk

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Upcoming Events

09/07/2008: Empowering the Voluntary Sector
** This workshop is now fully booked but NAVCA is organising similar workshops elsewhere. Visit www.navca.org.uk/evs for details ** Venue: The Regional Forum, Leeds Time: 9.00am to 4.30pm A ...

14/07/2008: INVITATION: Evening the Odds - towards Equality of Health - 14th July 2008
Venue Priory Street Centre, York Date Monday 14th July 2008, 10am to 2pm including lunch. Bringing together colleagues from the voluntary sector and statutory agencies, "Evening the Odds" is all a...

25/09/2008: "How our Region works" - Regional Forum Information Session
Who are the key decision makers in our region? What does the voluntary and community sector do? How many volunteers are there? What is the Regional Forum? The Voluntary & Community Sector, the reg...