Advocating intelligent commissioning: South West
11th May 2010, Exeter
NAVCA is running a series of interactive seminars exploring how the third sector can campaign and work for greater involvement in commissioning to improve local services and champion a flexible commissioning approach.
What the seminars cover:
Good practice in commissioning processes
Working collaboratively with public sector partners
How to share local experience and knowledge
A chance to network and find out what other organisations are doing
You will hear from The Institute of Public Care about the public sector perspective of commissioning and discuss how you can better advocate good practice in commissioning public services.
By the end of the seminar you will be better equipped to champion good practice in the commissioning of public services.
Cost & booking information
NAVCA member - £40, Third sector organisation - £55, Public body/other - £130
Event flyer and booking form (PDF, 2MB)
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Community Sector Trading - Trading to create new income streams
Community Sector Trading is a free course that supports voluntary and community organisations to understand how they can develop their trading activities to grow and diversify their income streams. Through a mix of face-to-face and virtual sessions, it offers practical learning based on real experience of the ‘nuts and bolts’ of running a business in the community. The learning programme gives participants the opportunity to engage with leaders of successful trading community organisations and explores:
- Strategic planning and growth
- Developing trading activities and diversifying income streams
- Investment readiness
- Pitching new ventures
It aims to support both front-line organisations who are currently developing a social enterprise project and Third Sector development support providers. This goes way beyond a traditional training course as it provides participants with additional business planning support, introduces a varied set of critical friends and is partly delivered through online conferencing technology.
Delivery and Learning Style
We believe that people learn best from exploring real examples and practicing their own probing and problem-solving skills with inspiration and experience on tap. Understanding enterprise is like art or sport – you need to practice and you need to reflect, preferably with the encouraging input of someone with far more experience in an environment structured for learning.
Each learning programme consists of a two day residential (29th - 30th April in London) followed by four online Action Learning Sessions over the following couple of weeks. Each of these sessions will explore real examples of community organisations that have developed trading and give participants an opportunity to practice developing and selling their ideas.
For more information and to express your interest, please visit – www.communityst.co.uk or call Haoming Yau on 0207 336 9438
