What are the short and longer-term plans?
The immediate aim of BSWN is to be an effective bridge between those in the BME sector in the SW and the statutory agencies, to increase communication and support for BVCS groups within the sector and help them become stronger, so they can better support those they work with throughout the region.
Longer-term the intention is to continue to grow this support and become an ever-more effective conduit for information, ultimately securing sustainability for BVCS development with our regional and national partners.
Our short-term stated aims:
- To provide infrastructure support to the BVCS
- To provide capacity building and specialist / professional support to the BVCS through BNS
- To develop further and strengthen the relationship with statutory agencies, through working with strategic partnerships.
- To support the BVCS to improve their organisational performance, and enable them to deliver high quality and effective services to local people in Governance, Performance Improvement, Human Resources and IT
- To raise awareness and promote human rights, diversity and equality among the VCS
- To ensure participation in the civic process, economic and social inclusion
Longer-term:
- To strengthen partnership and existing infrastructure and mechanisms to build capacity for the BVCS
- To secure sustainability for BVCS development
- To continue services and activities for improvements and roll out good practice
- To develop an income generation unit to self-generate income from service charges, memberships etc.
- To develop funding and income strategy to sustain ‘good practice’ models
- To negotiate with statutory agencies to mainstream
- To explore improvement and identify provision gaps and needs
- To develop high-quality social research capabilities.
- To negotiate with statutory agencies to ensure fair access to the commissioning of public services
