Support for community and voluntary groups
Sarah Moss is the Voluntary Organisation Support Officer at SBVS and provides free support and information to voluntary and community groups in the Shipley and Bingley constituency area - find out more.
Jenny Davison is the Health and Wellbeing Development Manager for groups and services in the Shipley and Bingley area - find out more about the Health Partnership Project.
Alison Eagle is the Rural Development Worker for groups in rural areas of the Shipley constitutency. Alison is on secondment from KIVCA find out more at the KIVCA website.
Voluntary Organisation Support Officer
Support is available for all forms of voluntary groups from small, local groups run by volunteers, to large organisations with many paid workers. Below are examples of the kind of issues that Sarah can offer help with:
- Setting up a new group
- Drafting and amending constitutions
- Policies and procedures e.g. equal opportunities; health & safety; safeguarding children; employment; working with volunteers
- Management committee support and training
- Identifying priorities and action planning
- Charity Registration
- Developing the capacity of the group
- Fundraising strategies and opportunities
- Signposting to other areas of information and support
Sarah can visit groups and/or management committees and work with them to identify and prioritise their needs.
If you are a member of a voluntary or community group in the Bingley/Shipley area and would like some assistance with any development issues for your group, please contact:
Bingley Office: 01274 787921 or email: sarahmoss@sbvs.org.uk
Shipley Office (open by appointment): 01274 595031
(Sarah is covering for Jenny Pratt who is currently on maternity leave)
The Health Partnership Project has been established to strengthen the relationship between the voluntary and community sector, NHS Bradford and Airedale, the GP Alliances and other partners in the development and provision of community based health and well being services for all.
The project will focus its work around the following priorities:
Capacity building support to the sector
Supporting groups to improve monitoring systems, develop new evaluation and impact measurement systems and effectively deliver health & wellbeing services.
Strategic overview to influence commissioning
Developing relationships with commissioners, contributing to programme steering groups, ensuring that the voluntary and community sector is represented in key decision making.
Information and communication
Supporting voluntary and community sector organisations with distributing information on timely issues, researching and providing information on big national developments. Also providing information to the NHS about specific services in the voluntary and community sector.
Advocating for the sector
Loudly promoting the sector's role in helping the NHS to achieve its goals.
The Health Partnership Project team is based across three infrastructure support organisations – Keighley & Ilkley Voluntary and Community Action (KIVCA), Shipley & Bingley Voluntary Services (SBVS) and Bradford Community and Voluntary Services (Bradford CVS).
The project's Bumps to Babies directory was featured in NHS Bradford & Airedale's newsletter - if you'd like copy of the Bumps to Babies directory, it's available to download from the Health Partnership Project website.
Contact the team
Amy Rylance: Senior Health and Wellbeing Development Manager (Keighley) 07939 142438 amy@kivca.org.uk
Jenny Davison: Health and Wellbeing Development Manager (Shipley and Bingley) 07891 730480 jenny@healthpartnership.org.uk
Emma Baylin: Health and Wellbeing Development Manager (Bradford) 07891 730456 emma@bradfordcvs.org.uk
Tom Blackwell: Administrator 01535 665258 tom@kivca.org.uk
This service is funded by NHS Bradford and Airedale.
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