GAVCA Gloucester
Welcome to GAVCA in Gloucester
GAVCA's Community Development Team offers support and advice to voluntary and community groups on a range of issues. For further information on all our services, including training, please see the Support to Groups in Gloucester section.
GAVCA aims to bring together voluntary and community groups that work in Gloucester, to share information, skills and good practice. For further information please see the Working Together in Gloucester section.
GAVCA provides a range of office facilities, rooms for hire and other support services, particularly useful to smaller voluntary and community groups who may not have their own facilities. To find out more see the Resources and Services in Gloucester section.
GAVCA also offers a range of services and support to voluntary and community grouops in Cheltenham and Countywide.
Gloucester News
Gloucester Partnership Executive Board – report from VCS Representatives
Paul Mathurin and Val O’Connor attended the Gloucester Partnership Executive Board meeting on January 25th to represent the Gloucester VCS Forum. As requested by the Forum, they took a proposal regarding the resourcing of VCS engagement in the Partnership. The meeting was asked to support the principle funding both GAVCA to support reps and also back-fill payments to the organisations from which elected representatives come.
Whilst the VCS reps were unable to gain full support for this proposal, some small steps were made in furthering the debate. It was acknowledged that asking the VCS to take on the new role of “proofing” the work of the Partnership was, in effect, commissioning a piece of work, and that the resources required for this would need to be recognised. This was noted and will be addressed when the budget for next year is agreed.
However, there was concern that the Gloucester Partnership could not look at the issue of back-fill payments in isolation from what was happening in the rest of the county, as any decision to pay VCS reps would clearly set a precedent. It was therefore agreed that the VCS would take this issue to the countywide VCS Assembly Board, and that the Partnership would take the issue to the Gloucestershire Strategic Partnership (GSP) for further debate.
For more information contact Sally Pickering at GAVCA on 01452 332424.