Building for the Future: Transforming Local Infrastructure - the fund and the project An in depth look at the project, the aims and the successes and the work undertaken.

1. Building for the Future -Transforming
Local Infrastructure
The team:
Ruth Williams
Business Regeneration Manager
Annette Atkinson
Volunteer Transformation Officer
Olufemi Olasoka
Community Group Worker
Dan Todd
Administration and Database Officer

2. The 'Building for the Future' project
aims to enable community and
voluntary organisations to seize
opportunities the new economic
environment presents. This will involve
looking at how we will perform better
and implementing a range of
business, training and communication
needs that within 18 months will
demonstrate a change for the future.

3. Partners
Social Enterprise development:
• Community Action Peterborough
• Young Lives for Peterborough & Cambridgeshire
• MENTER
• Living Sport for Peterborough & Cambridgeshire
• Peterborough Environment City Trust
Other partners:
• Keeping HR Simple
• Peterborough ProHelp
with additional support from:
• Media Matters
• Can Do Communities
• Inspire2Enterprise
• TUIT, Karen Beckwith and E&I
• Buckles Solicitors
• Mike Greene, Ben Fallows, Tara Cook, Cllr Irene Walsh, Michelle King, Mark Jackson
• TRex Design
• Jim Simpson, Andy Coles, Sue Scofield

4. Objectives
•Develop a new business growth centre for
charities
•Provide new effective communication
opportunities for all sectors to engage and produce
and distribute new social media toolkit
•Help the development of 22 new social
enterprises in Peterborough
•Facilitate specialist training such as
commissioning, managing change and business
planning
Continued…..

5. Objectives
•Work with 40 local businesses to set up Employee
Volunteering programmes - as a result recruit 100 new
employee volunteers
•Support 28 community centres and groups through a
process of Healthchecks and development work to
enable them to grow and survive
• Design and delivery of a new information portal of
PCVS members, who are voluntary, community groups
and registered charities. Providing contact details and
information of over 500 groups to anyone living and
working in Peterborough

6. Key activities
•Delivered training e.g. social media, specialist training
•Events e.g. conference (Oct 2012), On line Conference
(July 2013), Social Media forums (ongoing), Asset Transfer
workshop (June 2013), Volunteer Conference (June 13)
•28 Healthchecks for community groups
•3 large Community Centre events, enabling community
centres to meet and discuss common issues
•One to one support e.g. Volunteer Officer meetings with
local business, Community Group Worker offering advice
to groups

7. Key activities
• Design, production and delivery of new online
members database
• Resource library of over 70 publications for local
groups to access and in most cases borrow on
free loan
• Design and production of 2 employee volunteer
brochures
• Organised business team day challenges and
built new partnerships
• Work with partners to create new social
enterprises

8. Impact …..
• The voluntary and community sector has a better profile for statutory &
private organisations and general public to communicate and engage.
• Trustee boards, Chief Executive Officers and Managers are
knowledgeable, are drivers for change, effective in their role and
understand the legal and sustainable environment in which they work.
• The VCS will be streamlined due to a reduction in information
databases, this will provide an essential shared resource.
• 22 new social enterprises will be launched, leading to income generation
and a reduction of reliance on grant funding.
• VCS organisations benefit from additional volunteers being recruited via
employee volunteering programmes.
• Trustee boards benefit from specialist skills being introduced due to new
trustees being recruited from the private sector.
• Community Centres recognise how to sustain their activities to help them
develop and survive in the future.

9. Building for the Future -Transforming
Local Infrastructure
Project ends September 2013
Contact PCVS on 01733 342683/311016
e: pcvs@pcvs.co.uk
Visit our website www.pcvs.co.uk