This is the introduction presentation to the Sector Led Plan initial engagement events delivered in Nov/Dec 2014. The Sector Led Plan is designed to help provide a more proactive evidence base on the needs and issues of Norfolk's voluntary sector and the communities they support. It is a joint initiative of Momentum Norfolk, Norfolk RCC and West Norfolk VCS as part of the VCS engage voluntary and community sector support programme.

1. VCS Engage
The Sector Led Plan
Help create a plan for the future of the voluntary and
community sector in Norfolk.
Jon Clemo, Chief Executive, Norfolk RCC

2. Agenda
• Overview of the sector led plan and VCS
Engage programme
• Exercise - What are my Issues
• Break
• Exercise - What does good look like?
• Exercise - Building the right interfaces
• Questions and Close
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3. A New Programme – VCS Engage
• Three year programme of investment to
enhance the dialogue between the voluntary
and community sector and Norfolk County
Council
• Reduced overall funding
• Based on CCG geography with a specialist
strand relating to children and young people
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4. NCC Programme
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6. Lead Bodies
• West Norfolk – West Norfolk Voluntary and
Community Action (WNVCA)
• North Norfolk, South Norfolk and Norwich –
Norfolk RCC leading a partnership with NSP
• Children and Young People – Momentum
Norfolk
• Great Yarmouth to be done at a later date
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7. Joint Declaration - Working together
and locally focused
Working on behalf of a large and diverse sector.
A commitment from the three lead
organisations to work together, collaborate,
undertaking joint activity, sharing information
and resources for the benefit of the sector
whilst retaining strong tailored approaches to
meet the needs of different areas and groups.
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8. Challenge and Opportunity
• Hugely Challenging
• The sector’s diversity and scale both a
challenge and a strength
• Will not get it all right
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9. Our Approach
• Core communications and policy hub
• Pro-active evidence base
• Best placed people approach to
representation
• Building the correct interfaces
• Partner Exchange Service
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10. Our Priorities
• Sector Led Plan
• Upstream Conversation
• Creating the right interfaces
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11. Why a Sector Led Plan
• Want to ensure that when we speak on behalf
of the sector we are supported by strong
evidence
• That we are working on the right priorities on
your behalf
• That we are proactive in addressing these
priorities
• Help us understand how best to work together
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12. The process
Nov-Dec Feb March April-May June
Initial
Engagement
activities that
help highlight
the issues and
provide
qualitative
depth of
understanding
Quantitative
Survey built
using the
understanding
of the issues
Clear evidence
base of
quantitative and
qualitative
information
available to all
Developing
Solutions &
Priorities based
on the evidence
Communicating
and delivering
on solutions and
priorities
Steering Group
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13. About today
• First stage in the process
• Designed to help us understand what the key
issues are so we know the key questions to
ask
• Help provide the depth of understanding
• Around 150 organisations taking part across 8
events
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14. What are my issues!?
• Spend 5 minutes writing down all the issues you think are important on
the post-it notes provided.
• We will use all of these as part of the evidence gathering process so please
write them down in a way that can be understood by others!
• To help stimulate your ideas….think about issues that relate to you as an
individual within the sector, your organisation and the area of your activity
(community, young people, older people etc). Are these related to day to
day operational issues, the result of specific strategies/policies or wider
issues with the way the system works or how we approach/perceive
certain issues?
• Now with the person sat next to you spend 15min identifying a single
top 5 issues between you.
• Finally as a table spend 20 min identifying your top 5 issues as a table.
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15. What does good look like?
• Tables A: in terms of VCS infrastructure
support
• Tables B: in terms of overall services and
support available to people
• Two columns
– What already works well
– What needs to change for the future
• Change part way through – Add extra to the
sheets
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16. The Right Interfaces
• We want to facilitate the building of strong,
productive and collaborative interfaces with the
sector and NCC to address important issues and
span three key levels:
– The shaping of strategic thinking to collaboratively
develop the future landscape of Norfolk.
– Supporting the development of the mechanisms for
the effective translation of that strategic vision into
delivery.
– Operational collaboration, coordination and
integration to ensure effective, user centred, on the
ground delivery.
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17. Stay Involved
• Watch out for updates on mailings
• Stay in touch by registering at
www.norfolkrcc.org.uk/vcsengage
• Opportunity to join small steering group to
help guide the plan’s development, provide
feedback and bring your personal insight into
the process
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