ChangeUp
ChangeUp arose from the 2002 Treasury Cross-Cutting Review of
the voluntary and community sector's role in public service
delivery. This highlighted the need for a strategy to ensure "a
sustainable baseline of infrastructure support at local level,
regionally and nationally". The ChangeUp strategy, along with £80
million for implementation to March 2006, was launched in June
2004. Its aim is to "catalyse the modernisation of infrastructure
provision in order to improve its sustainability, quality and
reach". In March 2005, the Home Secretary announced a further £70
million to March 2008, and the creation of a new agency called
Capacitybuilders.
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ChangeUp
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Destination 2014
Consultation has now closed on Capacitybuilders' draft strategy for
2008-14, called Destination 2014. The final version will be
launched in July 07.
NAVCA'S role
NAVCA is a partner in the following ChangeUp initiatives:
Infrastructure National Partnership: NAVCA is a
partner in this group, which advises the Government and
Capacitybuilders on issues related to VCS infrastructure.
The INP has responded to Capacitybuilders' draft framework
for national support services from 1 April 2008. The
response (word, 67 KB) welcomes the continued commitment to
providing services at national level where this is the most
appropriate way to meet need, but notes serious concern about the
proposed timetable and in particular the scope for improved
coordination with the plans currently being developed at regional
and sub-regional levels by ChangeUp infrastructure
consortia.
Finance Hub : The
Finance Hub works in the areas of procurement, fundraising, social
enterprise, and financial management. NAVCA is a member of the
small Executive Group. We have committed to the Hub so that the
needs of local voluntary and community groups, and of the local
infrastructure organisations which serve them, inform all the
decisions the Hub makes about the use of its resources. In
particular, we want to see the Hub support training for local
funding advisers and taking action to fill the gaps locally where
there is no funding advice service.
Governance Hub : The Governance Hub is a
partnership of organisations who provide services and resources to
improve the quality of governance in the voluntary and community
sector. NAVCA is a member of the Core Group of the Hub. Our aim is
to ensure that the Hub's work builds on the skills and experience
of local infrastructure, and that the resources and activities
provided by the Hub enable local infrastructure organisations to
provide effective support.
Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) Hub : The ICT Hub is a partnership of
voluntary sector organisations that have come together to deliver a
co-ordinated framework of ICT guidance, good practice, advice and
support for voluntary and community organisations (VCOs),
accessible at a local level. NAVCA'S particular interest is in
enabling the development of effective and sustainable ICT support
at local and sub-regional level. We are a member of the Hub
partnership and host an ICT Support Worker
(
Paul Webster ),
whose role is to support staff in local infrastructure
organisations who offer ICT support to VCOs.
Performance Hub : The Performance Hub
aims to bring together in one place the wealth of experience and
expertise in performance improvement that already exists, to make
this accessible to voluntary and community organisations, to help
infrastructure at all levels improve the quality and quantity of
support it offers to VCOs, and to work with funders and
policy-makers to improve the environment within which VCOs operate.
NAVCA has a place on the Hub Partners Group which steers the work
of the Hub. We also host a Performance Support Officer
(
Fiona Martin ) whose
role is to support staff in local infrastructure organisations that
provide performance support to VCOs.
Volunteering Hub : The Volunteering Hub's work is
organised under the themes of strategy and management; information
dissemination, good practice and management development; and
modernising infrastructure. NAVCA is a member of the England
Volunteering Development Council, which acts as the advisory group
to the Hub.
Workforce Hub: The
Workforce Hub deals with: learning and skills, employment practice,
promoting the sector as a positive place to work and volunteer, and
leadership and management development for the VCS across the UK.
NAVCA is a member of the England Committee, an advisory body to the
Hub.
NAVCA is funded by the Workforce Hub to deliver two major
projects:
Action
Learning Matters - a national resource for action learning
in the voluntary and community sector.
SKiLD - a learning project for
development workers based in all local infrastructure organisations
across England.
ChangeUp at regional and sub-regional level
Information about ChangeUp activities around
England can be found via the ChangeUp
website