A Third Sector Fit For The Future

In a time of considerable change – economic, social, political – how does the city’s Third Sector need to change and grow?

This is the core question facing the newly-formed Third Sector Strategy Group (TSSG) when it meets on Friday 24th February.

For the first hour or so members will embark on a process of scenario planning, modelling desirable futures.

Members have been invited to pick two of the following four themes for discussion:

Manifesto Themes – Co-Production, Marginalised Communities, Future Funding

Commissioning – City of Edinburgh Council, NHS Lothian (item 12 on the linked Policy & Strategy committee agenda.)

Future Shape of Edinburgh’s Third Sector

Engaging with Public Sector Reform – Christie Commission, Regeneration Strategy.SOA_3ThirdSectorForum_VSSG_25Nov11

Following a short break, the group will then consider a few key decisions – along the following lines.

Community Planning issues and themes of current concern:

Single Outcome Agreement 3 and Scottish Government’s Community Planning Review.

Commissioning for Community Benefit – the Third Sector helping to shape City Outcomes.

And looking inwards:

Draft Refreshed Volunteering Strategy – which will be circulated later, once the Volunteering Strategy Implementation Group has considered it.

Forward Planning for the TSSG (Third Sector Strategy Group) – along the lines suggested in the report which proposed setting up the group.

In a time of austerity, the demands on Edinburgh’s Third Sector are growing, just as the resources available to us are reducing. How can the city’s Third Sector – using its innovation, creativity and guile – bridge that gulf? Do we need new ways of working? What will it look like – this Third Sector that is fit for the future?

I can’t wait to find out!

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