Project Development Service

Wansbeck CVS offers help, advice and training to groups and to individuals setting up or running local voluntary organisations or community groups. Areas where we offer assistance include:

• How to start a community group.
• Developing projects.
• Registering as a charity.
• Employing and managing staff.
• Promotion and publicity.
• Running events.
• Legal, financial and administration concerns.

Our work takes in local residents, voluntary groups and organisations, through out the Wansbeck area. We encourage them to work with other like minded groups, public authorities, professional agencies and the business sector to improve their local community.

Wansbeck CVS actively aim to involve the community in the development of the area in which they live. Community development through our Project Development Service provides a proven technique for developing more effective community activity. Through the Project Development Wansbeck CVS can help people, to overcome exclusion and to enable people to positively influence their local conditions.

We aim to provide a range of services, which will increase the strength and effectiveness of community life, improve local living conditions (especially for people in disadvantaged situations) and enable people to participate in public decision-making and to achieve greater long-term control over their circumstances.

We aim to achieve this by encouraging personal growth and learning leading to an individuals increased employability. We try to encourage the greater interaction of people, leading to the enhancement of their sense of community and generating a greater interest in local affairs. This in turn will result in a greater involvement with community groups in the area will, in turn, lead to positive improvements in the neighbourhoods in which they live. Ultimately this will lead to the 'authorities' or 'partnerships' increased understanding of the local community, and thus an improvement in their service delivery adding to the economic value of community and voluntary activity.

For more information contact Carolyn Fothergill at projects@wansbeckcvs.org.uk

Wansbeck Council for Voluntary Service
107 & 109 Station Road, Ashington, Northumberland NE63 8RS
Telephone: 01670 858 688
Fax: 01670 784160

Email: enquire@wansbeckcvs.org.uk