Today, Dorset’s Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Assembly website is fully launched.
It sets out the what, where, why, and how of the Assembly’s operations and purposes. It also tells you who is involved and what work is being done and planned.
The Assembly has been through an extensive and lengthy co-production process to ensure that it can to the most good, in as fair a manner as possible, and in a way that underpins the trust of everyone that works with it.
The website content captures this spirit of service, openness, and fairness and will be the main platform for sharing the ongoing activities and opportunities and concerns of the Assembly. This is taken from the website:
We are all involved in supporting one another in our communities – together we are the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS). Everyone in the VCS is a partner in the Assembly and everyone’s voice counts.
The Dorset Voluntary and Community Sector Assembly (VCSA) aspires to greater representation of issues that are experienced by the VCS, creates stronger connections within the VCS, and facilitates increased networking and collaboration within the VCS and with partners from other sectors in the community.
The Assembly works by bringing together people and organisations to work on issues as they arise. At any point there may be a range of activities happening in the Assembly, run by different people, but connected under the umbrella of the wider purposes of the Assembly. Central to its work is a mission to build trusting relationships within the VCS and between the VCS and other partners, and to provide a fair and equitable way for people to be involved in its activities.
The Assembly is also the formal link between the VCS and the wider Integrated Care System (ICS) in Dorset, which includes public and private sector organisations.
If you would like to find out more about Dorset’s VCS Assembly then please have a look at all the information that is now available on the Assembly website. Click on the link below to view it.
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