INVOLVE is a network of the community and voluntary sector and is the Community Engagement Network for Merton. It aims to make sure that the needs and preferences of service users, carers and the wider community are identified and kept central to the planning and delivery of future services in Merton.
INVOLVE is a member of the Merton Partnership and is how MVSC keeps in touch with local voluntary groups face to face.
INVOLVE meets to communicate and discuss current issues affecting the local voluntary sector. INVOLVE meetings also offer a good opportunity for colleagues in the sector to meet one another and network. If you would like to make a suggestion for an item to be added to the agenda then please get in touch.
Sub-groups of INVOLVE address thematic issues:
- Employment, Training and Enterprise Forum
- Health and Social Care Forum
- Mental Health Forum
- Small Groups Foum
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INVOLVE (the Community Engagement Network) representatives INVOLVE has a number of elected representatives who sit on the various boards within the Merton Partnership structure. For a list of representatives click here. The representatives are committed to attending the meetings, both to raise and to report back on issues relevant to the community and voluntary sector. Launch event for Merton Council funding programme The event to launch Merton Council's strategic partners grants programme took place at Vestry Hall on 17th July. Colleagues from the Council set out the proposals for the grants programme. The scope of the programme has expanded and the Council will now be looking to fund voluntary sector organisations delivering services in the following areas: information and advice provision, infrastructure support for the voluntary sector, wellbeing services, carers support services, and Healthwatch. More than 40 people from across the sector attended the energy-filled event. Working in focus groups, they studied the Council's plans and gave detailed feedback on these. The Council officers at the meeting took receipt of all the feedback from the sector members at the event and agreed to consider these carefully and take them on board as far as possible, working collaboratively, as the programme developed.
The Council is now seeking further feedback via a survey. This survey is available on the Council's website, and all members of INVOLVE and the wider sector in the borough are encourage to complete this. The consultation closes at midnight on Monday 27th August 2018.
The Council's draft prospectus for the programme, and its presentation at the INVOLVE meeting and Q&A brief are below. |
Please click here to book your place on the upcoming forums and INVOLVE meetings.
