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News and Feature Articles
This is VAC's blog page. On here you can find a list of interesting articles which were written for our weekly newsletter. All articles have been categorised so if you are looking for an article on a particular subject then use the blog category filters opposite to filter your results. If you have any interesting ideas for the blog, or wish to contribute then just get in touch.
The ‘Coronavirus’ Budget
The Budget March 2020 The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, stepped up to the Despatch Box with the aim of settling the nerves of the country. The new government wants to ‘level up’, ‘get brexit done’ and deal with global financial turmoil as the implications of pandemic sink in. The Budget included a £12 billion plan to […]
How the VCS Accesses Camden Council’s Training is Changing
If you use the Camden Learning and Development service to train your staff or volunteers then how you access it is changing. Camden Learning and Development are working to ensure the offer meets the needs of the sector and will be working to finalise arrangements over the coming months. However, interim arrangements have been put […]
Thought for Christmas
Christmas can be a stressful time for many – family and friends are thrown together and inevitably differences of opinion get aired. And as if the traditional family fault lines aren’t enough we now have the aftermath of a bruising election to add to the list of divisive topics that can ruin a family get-together. […]
Election time: Campaigning with Confidence – Dos and Don’ts
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations has urged the sector to campaign with confidence. There has been much scare mongering over the Lobbying Act but most of the provisions only apply to organisations “where the expenditure can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence the electoral prospects of parties or candidates.” Few voluntary organisations in […]
Voluntary Action Camden 13th September 2019 extra
Message from Georgia Gould and Keir Starmer MP to Camden Community Leaders 13th September 2019 Dear community leader, Over the last few weeks we have experienced an unprecedented increase in violence on our streets – violence which has now resulted in the tragic deaths of three people in less than a week. We cannot […]
Transformation in Health and Social Care part 1
Social Prescribing Learning Network Briefing Transformation in health and social care….. in a nutshell. By Donna Turnbull, Community Development Manager at VAC. This is a quick attempt to summarise the policy context for Social Prescribing……unsurprisingly it involves a tsunami of titles and initials. But within all that is the expectation Voluntary and Community Sector […]
How Might Brexit Affect the Sector?
Guest Blog from Rashid Iqbal, CEO, the Winch How might Brexit affect Camden’s For-Impact Sector? At the recent Health and Wellbeing Event for the Voluntary and Community Sector, Sanjay Mackintosh, Director of Strategy at Camden Council, asked what the impact of Brexit might be to help inform the Council’s contingency arrangements. I offered the […]
Youth violence and the role that London’s local Infrastructure can play?
Jake Ferguson, CEO of neighbouring Hackney CVS writes about the Violence Reduction Unit which has been set up by the London Mayor and MOPAC to reduce serious violence in the London through a multi-agency approach. What role can London’s local infrastructure play to reduce youth violence in the capital?
Tidy transactional pathways or messy relational connections?
There is an awful lot going on with what is broadly known as ‘social prescribing’. The term ‘social prescribing’ covers a range of complimentary community led initiatives that seek to bolster health (and the health service) by reconnecting the individual to the community. This simple tactic leverages the power of community and connection to combat […]
