Change Up

ChangeUp in Bromley

Below is the local development plan for Bromley. It details how we will aim for the ChangeUp goals in the borough.

Word Icon Bromley ChangeUP Infrastructure Development Plan’ - 287 KB

The plan above was agreed by the Bromley ChangeUp Consortia (The Voluntary Sector Reference Group) in December 2007.

To support the plan, the Consortia have published The Shape of Things to Come – a report about support needs of local voluntary and community groups. Download The Shape of Things to Come: 293 kb

National ChangeUp

ChangeUp is the Government's framework for building capacity and infrastructure of the voluntary and community sector so that we can meet the needs of frontline organisations by 2014.

This is being done by building support which is "available nationally, structured for maximum efficiency, offering excellent provision which is accessible to all while reflecting and promoting diversity, and is sustainably funded".

There is ?142 million funding for the programme which will last till 2007/8.

A large portion of the funding has been spent on setting up a network of knowledge hubs across the country to promote and support best practice in:

Performance improvement - including quality standards
Workforce development - skills strategies
ICT - web-based information service and telephone helpline
Governance - increasing number of skilled trustees
Volunteering - commonly-branded local volunteering infrastructure
Financing voluntary sector activity - improved access to public funding, income generation skills.

A new programme of national support is being introduced. The Hubs will be replaced, from April 2008, with a new programme of national support services.

CapacityBuilders - is the agency responsible for managing ChangeUp funds and developing the new national support services.

CLB will keep you posted about our new Bromley ChangeUp plan, as well as changes to the national support services.

Page updated: 4 March 2008