This document summarizes the key issues facing the voluntary sector in North Yorkshire and the surrounding areas. It identifies the top 5 headline issues as: 1) managing change, 2) adapting to changing models of funding such as from grants to contracts, 3) risk management, 4) dealing with both cooperation and competition (coopetition), and 5) effective partnership working. The presentation provides details on these issues and opportunities for the voluntary sector to address the changing landscape, ensure organizational resilience, and continue demonstrating value.

1. Seachange & Ryedale Voluntary
Action: Civil Society issues
Presentation by Michael Beckett
Monday 22nd October 2012

2. The purpose of my talk
As the landscape for the voluntary and community
sector is changing fast with new government
legislation and the whole Big Society agenda
‘What are the key issues that are
the headlines for the voluntary
sector in North Yorkshire, and
particularly for Ryedale and
Scarborough Districts?’

3. National voluntary sector issues
National issues
1. Big Society
2. Localism
3. Radical funding changes
4. Consolidation of Voluntary Sector
5. Change to political structures

4. 1 & 2 Big Society & Localism
Opportunities:
Community right to bid, asset transfer
New Services put out to contract
Neighbourhood plan
General power of competence for LAs
Power to challenge LA to run services

5. 3. Statutory Sector context
% Change to budget
2012-13
North Yorkshire Year 2 of 20% cut
County Council - 5% over 3 years
Ryedale District (11% central cut)
Council - 5.4%
Scarborough Borough
Council - 3.88%
York Teaching Hospital Projected ¼ billion
NHS Foundation Trust - 6% deficit within three
years as is.
Yorkshire Housing
+0.05%

6. 4. Voluntary sector consolidation
National merger examples include
NCVO and Volunteer England
Proposed NAVCA and Community Matters
SSAFA & The Royal Patriotic Fund Corp.
No Smoking Day+British Heart Foundation
Housing Options & Association for
Supported Living
Careers Development Group +Shaw Trust
Parenting UK and Family Lives

7. 5. Changes
Clinical Commissioning Groups – April 2013
Hambleton, Richmondshire & Whitby CCG
Scarborough and Ryedale CCG
Health and Wellbeing Strategy
Police and Crime Commissioner
Healthwatch – December 2012
Personalisation

8. Voluntary & Community Sector
Community Sports, Cooperatives,
Interest Faith, Friendly
Companies Education Societies and
and Social and Trusts
Enterprises Heritage
Charities Community Activities
organisations and events

9. Voluntary sector local issues
Local issues
1. Change (e.g. the 2 new Clinical
Commissioning Groups)
2. Radically altered financial model
3. Risk
4. Coopetition
5. Partnership working

10. 1. Change Management
Robustness of systems
Resilience planning
Fit for purpose, Impact assessment
Social Return On Investment
Excellence culture of continual improvement
Flexibility reconfiguring of sector
Managed change, expectation & outcome

11. 2. Changing landscape of funding
1. Grants to Service Level Agreements
2. Service Level Agreements to Contracts
3. Contracts to competitive tendering.
Question: How long before Local Support
and Development and Volunteer Centres
funding is put out to competitive tender by
local authorities in North Yorkshire?
Guesstimation: 6-24 months?

12. 2.1 Local changes
Single Funding Agreement for LSDOs
Creative Change
KPMG health and social care service review
Healthwatch commissioning December 2012
Health & Wellbeing Board funding priorities
The Street opening – December 2012
Community House proposed closing... ???

13. 3. Risk Management
Clarity in strategic Objectives
Identifying Key Performance Indicators
Budget setting and monitoring
Outputs and Outcome tracking
Formal Risk Assessments undertaken
Action plan risk reduction & amelioration
Ongoing regular review

14. 3.1 Threat of interlopers
National Charities Examples
supplanting local CAB service in Hull
charities. National Specialist
Possibly even? Sexual Health
Group 4: running phonelines out to
Volunteer Centres tender last week
Capita: organising Warrington CVS
charity partnership

15. 4. Coopetition
Cooperation & competition portmanteau

The best of worlds for funders?
Sharing best practise to increase standards
Rival bidding to lower costs

The worst of worlds for charities?
Uncertainty » Core funding no longer secure
Shared best practise » stealing our clothes
Applied business acumen, relationship
management

16. 5. Principles for partnership working
1. KISS principles to partnerships.
2. A pragmatic approach to each political
area.
3. Local engagement and partnerships
shared appropriately.
4. Task and finish groups in preference to
thematic partnerships or sub- groups.
Based on: Local Government North Yorkshire & York 28/1/2011

17. Questions for voluntary sector
We need to be committed to continual vision
awareness, doing the right things, the right
way and transparently demonstrating value
for money and quality of service.
Vision: What makes our organisation
unique?
Values: What do we want to communicate
about our organisations?
Aims: What do we want to be known for?

18. Action Plan Recap
Seize on existing voluntary sector work
Examine human/estate capital in settings
to maximise benefit for service users
Co-operative/SE start-up modelling
Customer journey mapping for ‘one stop
shop’ and community-led mutualism
Reach out to local government, other
VCS organisations and interested parties

19. Voluntary sector local issues
Summary top 5 headline issues
1. Change
2. Funding
3. Risk
4. Coopetition
5. Partnership working

20. Opportunity for Q&A
Many thanks for taking the time to listen
to my presentation – please feel free to
ask any questions you may have...
Alternatively after today, I welcome any
other questions by way of:
 Email:cllrmichaelbeckett@yahoo.co.uk
 Telephone: 01653 691 402

21. Ryedale Voluntary Action &
Seachange: Civil Society issues
Presentation by Michael Beckett
Monday 22nd October 2012