White Hart Lane
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 4AF
Tel: 01256 423816
Fax: 01256 423825
How to chair meetings and write minutes - The chairperson's primary role is to ensure that the board is effective in its tasks of setting and implemen... more
VSF on 25th May between 12pm and 2pm at the Orchard, White Hart Lane, Basingstoke - An opportunity to hear from the new Basingstoke and Deane Borough ... more
What is the Compact?
The Compact was developed from recommendations made in the 1996 Report of the Deakin Commission on the future of the voluntary sector
The national Compact is an agreement between government and the third sector in England. It sets out commitments on both sides to improve the way in which government and the third sector work together for the benefit of communities and citizens. It also provides a framework for negotiating Local Compacts such as the One Compact for Hampshire.
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The Commission for the Compact has produced an Introduction to the Compact Community Action Hampshire has produced a document explaining the One Compact for Hampshire BDBC has already signed up to the One Compact for Hampshire itself and recommends that other public bodies follow suit. The One Compact automatically includes Voluntary and Community organisations when they interact with a Statutory Body that is signed up. The Compact will have different implications for different parts of the third sector. However, it will frame the relationship wherever a third sector organisation has dealings with public bodies. This holds true for organisations with a funding relationship with a public sector body, as well as informal organisations struggling to be heard on a policy question that they care passionately about. The One Compact for Hampshire is part of that national initiative. It was launched in November 2004 and provides a set of principles and commitments about how the two sectors can best work together. Instead of doing things separately, it has at its heart the belief that effective partnership working helps all parties achieve what they want to do by working together; we will achieve more for the people and communities of Hampshire After a national consultation a refreshed version was launched in December 2009 and the Hampshire Voluntary Sector Consortium (HVSC) has consulted organisations in Hampshire to find out their views on whether to adopt the principles set out in the national document or update the One Compact
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