Thursday, January 11th, 2007

VCAG Update

Hello

Please find below the summary of the last meeting in December. It was a very busy meeting with a lot of issues to get through – so much so that the meetings have now been extended by an hour to accommodate everything.

The most interesting part was the discussion with Andy Forester and Meta Zimmeck on the Third Sector review. They stressed local decision making and not a ‘one size fits all’ approach to the suggested changes. Most positively, Andy said that by 148 Volunteer Centres,(the number mentioned in the submission to the Third Sector Review) what was actually meant was 148 Volunteering Agencies, or accountable bodies acting on behalf of Volunteer Centres. Please find some info attached.

All in all we all felt more optimistic after the meeting, particularly as we were assured about the flexibility of any future restructuring.

The other interesting part was a review of the VC marketing campaign. Although Jane and Jamie were keen to stress how successful the campaign had been in terms of raising awareness, neither I nor any of the other representatives had received any enquiries as a result.(Even though the campaign was targeted in my area, Kent) We passed on our comments to the marketing team who said they will take them on board.

Regarding VCQA – I went to a meeting yesterday at VE with the VCQA team and found it very positive, there will be a lot of small changes for the better, around clarification, guidance for us and a fairer system of scoring. We were reassured that any changes will be incremental and not major – there is definitely an appreciation of the time and resources we need to work through accreditation and the new team are keen to support us.

Please let me know if you have any questions or want anything raised at the next meeting.

Best wishes

Charlotte Osborn-Howard
Volunteer Centre Maidstone

VCAG Q&As Modernisation Fund

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