Community and Voluntary Partners is the infrastructure organisation (Council for Voluntary Service) for the Community and Voluntary Sector in the Bolsover District

Community & Voluntary Partners vision is of empowered local people and community and voluntary organisations that have real influence over policy, planning, service development and delivery through genuine partnership working.

CVP undertakes 5 core functions:

• Development: Identifying local need, working with others to develop appropriate action and working strategically to benefit the local voluntary and community sector.

• Liaison: helping to maintain links with a wide range of voluntary and community organisations and promoting cross sector relationships.

• Representation: enabling the local voluntary and community sector to present it's views to statutory and public sector bodies through consultation, networking, forums, seminars and workshops etc.

• Services: funding information and advice, training, legal, financial, management and constitutional advice and information, newsletters and mailings.

• Strategic Partnership: working with the local strategic partnership, helping to develop the voluntary sector COMPACT, participating in neighbourhood regeneration and working with other statutory bodies at a strategic level including Local Area Agreements.

Please follow the following link if you're interested in becoming a member of CVP New Members Pack. There are many benefits in becoming a member of CVP:

• Voting rights at the AGM and an opportunity to have a representative on the CVP Board
• A quarterly newsletter
• Ad hoc mailings
• Access to our training at a reduced cost
• Access to specialist dedicated training for your organisation
• Access to specialist support staff who can assist you with funding, governance, HR, legal and financial management support
• Automatic Inclusion in the various forums that we support
• Access to IT facilities and our library
• Discount on the hire and use of items in our resource library
• Access to a meeting/training room
• Reduced cost access to photocopying, laminating and binding services
• Reduced cost on purchase of paper, envelopes and general stationary etc
• Inclusion on website database (as authorised on CVP Membership Form)