In lieu of Item 7.1 of the Finance and Resource Committee on the 5th March in relation to Edinburgh’s Community Centres. EVOC has submitted a note to Committees Members regarding our concerns and recommendations in relation to the conditions review for community centres.

You can read the letter in full here:

Letter from EVOC_item 7.1

EVOC’s role to support voluntary organisations in the city working with children, young people and families continues. We are here to listen and help people make connections to come together to achieve the best results for our communities by addressing the issues that the grants programme has presented.

The conversations are ongoing, and our contacts to discuss next steps are:

mark.merrell@evoc.org.uk 0131 555 9121

Please get in touch if there is something specific you wish to work on with other organisations – we are here to help.

The next CYP&F Network meeting is Thursday 5th March 2020 at 09:45 at EVOC’s office.

The next two Older People’s Forum meetings are: 

• Wednesday 19^th February – 10-12pm, in the boardroom at EVOC
• Tuesday 24^th March – 10-12pm, in the boardroom at EVOC

If you are interested in coming along, please contact Stef Milenkovic.

EVOC closes at 11.45am on Christmas Eve and re-opens at 9am on Friday 3 January 2020.

Season’s Greetings to all our members and readers.

Challenge, Change and Churn was the theme of EVOC’s annual Conference and AGM on 5th November 2019.

The morning featured:

• 2 inspiring speakers
• 4 engaging and dynamic workshops
• 100 attendees from over 70 organisations in Edinburgh and..
• a lot of cups of coffee! 

We wanted to share some of the key learning from the morning and important messages from our speakers.

To download a copy of the above short report click here.

Slides from the day:

The following slides from workshops and speakers are available to view below:

Michael Stewart, Independent Care Review

Edinburgh Poverty Commission

Good Governance in the Third Sector 

Achieving your Objectives through Relationship Building

 

Other Key Information:

The Independent Care Review implores all attendees to ask their corporate parenting colleagues from within the City of Edinburgh Council to share with them their commitments to the Review’s Stop:Go list and how services can help them achieve the council’s commitment.

The Edinburgh Poverty Commission has an interim finding paper that can be seen here.

They are also still accepting submissions of evidence which you can do so here.

You can access the SCVO Good Governance Checkup here.

Other items from the ‘Good Governance in the Third Sector’ are included below:

SCVO-Governance Toolkit 

Governance-Code

Conflict of Interest flowchart

EVOC are hosting a workshop to explore the best way for the voluntary sector’s voice to be heard in local community planning from 2020.

Voluntary Sector Forums (VSFs) currently meet quarterly across Edinburgh localities, the meetings should be informative and inclusive, providing an opportunity for the third sector to come together and share their experiences, but also, as the VSF chairs represent third sector interests at the Locality Community Planning Partnership (LCPP) meetings, the VSFs are an important channel for their voice in local planning.

With the ever-changing local community planning landscape across the city we felt it was now time to revisit the goals and format of the VSFs, we want to discuss if there is a need for VSFs and if so how can they be improved? How do VSFs fit with Neighbourhood Networks and do we need representation from both?

Please come along for the morning and share your views and take part in the discussion!

Nov 28^th, 9:30am-12pm, Quaker Meeting House

Please note registration is required for this event:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/third-sector-voices-in-community-planning-tickets-80635688515