Basingstoke Community Support Consortium

AIM, OBJECTIVES AND PRIORITIES
BCSC aims to co-ordinate more effectively the activities of a group of organisations, to improve support for the VCS in the future.

Following extensive consultation with VCO, BCSC has identified and agreed seven outcomes, required to meet our local vision, together with priorities for action to achieve these outcomes:

• High profile quality support services, embedded within the sector and meeting VCS needs
• The local VCS fit for purpose and resourced
• Partnerships inclusive of VCS
• The Compact understood and implemented by all partners
• A strong VCS network that facilitates communication 
• Unmet community needs identified and supported 
• A high profile VCS embedded within communities, and linked into other local service providers

BCSC have produced a Strategy and Action Plan. 

The VCS endorsed Funding as the number one issue affecting the sector. In reponse BCSC has set up

• Basingstoke4Community which is a searchable funding database
• A series of Funding training sessions on a range of funding issues delivered by BVS as part of the "Purple Book" 
• Fundraising Clinic providing an opportunity for a VCO to discuss their issues with a professional consultant.

For more information or to book a place on the next Fundraising Clinic telephone 01256 423816