Skills & Capacity Building
Inspire East Enabling Panel
Derrick Johnstone is now a member of the Inspire East Enabling Panel. The Enabling Service seeks to provide independent advice and guidance to sustainable communities projects to help overcome difficult issues and improve results, especially through involvement at critical early stages in project lifecycles.
Enablers are drawn from a range of professional backgrounds with specialist expertise to offer. Their role may be, for example, to assist local partners in developing a project brief; advising on procurement or project set-up, or providing guidance and help where a project may have stalled. Enablers are expected to help the local 'client' progress the project, rather than actually undertaking those tasks on their behalf.
Enablers are drawn from a range of professional backgrounds with specialist expertise to offer. Their role may be, for example, to assist local partners in developing a project brief; advising on procurement or project set-up, or providing guidance and help where a project may have stalled. Enablers are expected to help the local 'client' progress the project, rather than actually undertaking those tasks on their behalf.
VCS mapping in Luton & Bedfordshire
Mapping voluntary and community organisations in Luton and Bedfordshire (
(pdf - 139KB) report on mapping research to identify VCOs with a potential interest in services to be provided by Luton and Dunstable Partnership's ESF Capacity Building Project, aimed at building capacity within the sector in addressing worklessness. Involved interviews, desk research and an on-line survey.
(pdf - 139KB) report on mapping research to identify VCOs with a potential interest in services to be provided by Luton and Dunstable Partnership's ESF Capacity Building Project, aimed at building capacity within the sector in addressing worklessness. Involved interviews, desk research and an on-line survey.Benchmarking voluntary sector engagement on skills
Benchmarking Voluntary Sector Engagement with the Learning and Skills Council 2005 - report reviewing the engagement of voluntary and community organisations with local Learning and Skills Councils in the South East - a follow up to the development of the South East Compact for Learning and Skills agreed by RAISE (the regional voluntary sector network in the South East) and the LSC.
Mutual Advantage - Skills & VCOs
Mutual Advantage: Working with Voluntary and Community Organisations on Learning and Skills - report on research and development project in Hampshire, Sandwell and Wigan, on the opportunities and implications for the voluntary sector and the LSC of the new learning and skills agenda. Project report for Department for Education & Skills, published April 2001.
It features:
It features:
- Part 1 report, featuring key messages for Local Learning and Skills Councils and the voluntary sector, and lots of examples of capacity building and partnership working in practice ( pdf - 597 KB)
- Part 2: case studies from project areas (Hampshire, Sandwell and Wigan) and other parts of the country (Birmingham, London, Norfolk and Yorkshire), and resources to help users review the roles voluntary organisations can play, strengthen partnership working and identify sources of funding for capacity building. ( pdf - 556 KB)
There is also a summary ( pdf - 243 KB)
'Mutual Advantage' has been very widely used (with high numbers of downloads from Government websites in addition to the printed copies) and has been influential in the subsequent development of policy and relationships between the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and the voluntary and community sector.
pdf - 243 KB)'Mutual Advantage' has been very widely used (with high numbers of downloads from Government websites in addition to the printed copies) and has been influential in the subsequent development of policy and relationships between the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and the voluntary and community sector.
Skills for Community Regeneration
Skills for Regeneration: Learning by Community Champions - report on research into skills needed and gained by individuals who have gained small grants through the Community Champions programme, funded by the Department for Education and Skills. The programme provided up to £2,000 to around 10,000 individuals across England between 2000 and 2007, with many projects led by these individuals targeted at disadvantaged groups, including disabled people and refugees. The programme was successful, but was one of the funding streams ultimately to be rolled into funding for Local Area Agreements.
Report (RR441) and Research Brief (RB441) available for download from the DCSF research website (click on ‘Published Reports’)
Report (RR441) and Research Brief (RB441) available for download from the DCSF research website (click on ‘Published Reports’)
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