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Workstreams

Campaigning

The campaigning and advocacy workstream, led by NCVO, promotes excellence in these areas through helping support providers develop their skills and improving their access to essential research on third sector campaigning and advocacy needs and good practice.

Change

The responding to social change workstream, led by NCVO, promotes a more proactive, innovative and sustainable voluntary and community sector by helping infrastructure and umbrella organisations to support the frontline with strategic insight and planning tools.

Collaboration

The collaboration workstream, led by bassac, aims to facilitate wide-ranging collaboration within the voluntary and community sector and with other sectors.

Communications

The marketing and communications workstream, led by the Media Trust, seeks to raise the visibility of the third sector by helping support providers gain resources, skills and contacts to improve frontline organisations’ ability to make themselves seen and heard.

Equality

The equalities and diversity workstream, led by the Women’s Resource Centre on behalf of the National Equality Partnership, seeks to improve support for equalities organisations, to help all support providers to value and respect each other’s work, and to aid all third sector organisations in addressing equality, diversity and human rights.

Governance

The leadership and governance workstream, led by NCVO, aims to strengthen the ability of support providers to guide third sector organisations in improving the way they are led and governed, thus increasing their effectiveness and securing sustainability.

Income

The income generation workstream, led by acevo, promotes increased sustainability and independence for third sector organisations by developing the skills of their support providers and connecting them to widen their networking reach.

Performance

The performance management workstream, led by CES, promotes greater efficacy and sustainability in the third sector by helping support providers guide frontline organisations towards good practice in performance management.

Volunteering

The modernising volunteering workstream, led by Volunteering England, helps support providers to promote new forms of volunteer involvement and to maximise frontline organisations’ volunteering opportunities by overcoming barriers and exploring new initiatives.