Summary: Walking a tightrope: Exploring the conditions for effective local voluntary and community sector infrastructure

January 31, 2025

This document is a summary of the longer research piece. As part of a wider Development Programme throughout 2024, NAVCA commissioned research seeking to identify the internal and external conditions that enable or prevent effective delivery of local VCSE infrastructure support services by Local Infrastructure Organisations (LIOs). This report details the rationale for the study, the research methods, findings and conclusions from the research.