Voluntary and Community Action Sunderland

In recent years partnership working between public, private, and voluntary and community organisations has increased dramatically. VCAS can help to clarify the often confusing range of opportunities by:

  • Signposting and linking voluntary and community groups to emerging strategies and partnerships
  • Accessing a range of partnerships and initiatives through the various teams of VCAS

For more information contact Trish Cornish on 0191 5651566 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Sunderland Partnership

The Sunderland Partnership is the city’s Local Strategic Partnership (LSP). It brings together all sectors to work together to achieve success, encourage improvement, and  overcome problems for the benefit of all citizens now and in the future.

Sunderland has a long history of partnership working. The City of Sunderland Partnership was originally established in 1994, and this went on to become the city’s LSP in 2001. It was re-named the Sunderland Partnership in 2005.

As the local strategic partnership, our main tasks are to:
  • Agree, implement, monitor and review the Sunderland Strategy – the key document through which partners in Sunderland collectively set out their vision and priorities for the city.
  • Bring together local plans, partnerships and initiatives to allow effective joint working to meet local needs
  • Agree, implement, monitor and review the Local Area Agreement which forms part of the delivery plan for the Sunderland Strategy and will seek to ensure that the Sunderland Partnership achieves what it set out to do, to create a better future for everyone in Sunderland.
Working through the Sunderland Partnership, different sectors, communities and organisations have come together to share information and experience about the challenges facing Sunderland, and to consider the best way of tackling these.
 
Partners will remain responsible for ensuring implementation of the strategy, and also for reviewing and evaluating progress to ensure that it is achieving what it set out to do - making Sunderland the place where you can have a better future.
 
The Compact is integral to the work of the partnership as a whole, and it will complement and support both the Sunderland Strategy and Local Area Agreement to ensure that working relationships are enhanced for the maximum benefit of the city.
 

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