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Representation
The SVF Manager is Chair of England
Volunteer Development Council East
The England Volunteer Development Council is a high-level
representative and advocacy mechanism for volunteering. It
engages both with government and opposition parties in order
to capture the collective intelligence of
volunteer-involving organisations, volunteering
infrastructure providers and of volunteers to provide a
powerful, coordinated lobby to steer government policy and
community action.
There are ten bodies of the council in total: a national
body and nine regional bodies, one in each Government Office
region of England.
Council members are drawn from the voluntary, community,
public and private sectors. Members from the voluntary and
community sectors represent a wide range of interests and
activities, as well as generic and specialist volunteering
infrastructure organisations.
In the Eastern Region, membership includes Go-East, EEDA,
LSC, National Governing Bodies of Sport, Sport England,
Volunteer Centre representatives, Attend, Museums, Libraries
and Archives East, BitC, EERA, representatives from youth
organisations, East of England Skills and Competitive
Partnership, EEDA 2012, CapacityBuilders, Regional Offender
Management Service and the Voluntary Arts Network.
Meetings are held three times a year and currently EVDC is
involved in writing the Regional Volunteering Strategy.
The SVF Manager is a Board Member of
Nations and Regions East (NRE)
In October 2005 Nations and Regions East was established in
the region to feed into the national structures and to
co-ordinate the maximisation of benefits from the Games at a
regional level.
Nations and Regions East was established as a strategic
group supported by a regional partnership group that had
been originally established during bid phase. Both groups
have been effective in supporting the bid, raising public
support and providing a variety of additional regional
benefits - for example, a stronger working relationship
between EEDA and Sport England.
The groups have played a key role in the development of a
draft regional business plan to maximise the gains from the
London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
As a result of the publishing of a draft regional business
plan, regional structures have been reviewed and revised in
2007 to achieve delivery of the plan.
The SVF Manager also contributes to the NRE Volunteering
Sub-Group.
The SVF Manager is a member of the
Young Suffolk Volunteer Partnership
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