Building the Big Society with NCVYS
The NCVYS Big Society Blueprint
Thank you for submitting your proposal for the NCVYS Big Society Blueprint. The deadline for proposals has now passed. We will be informing applicants of the outcome w/c Monday 13 September.
The NCVYS Big Society Placement Scheme
NCVYS members already work hard to support many of the 15 million young people in England. To support the principles behind the Big Society, NCVYS is offering placements to MPs with our member organisations. In this way we hope to offer politicians and those that support them access to the real work going on in communities today. If you are a parliamentarian or civil servant and would be interested in joining our placement scheme to see the big society in action being delivered by NCVYS members now! Please contact Faiza Chaudary.
Building enterprise – a sustainable big society with NCVYS
NCVYS’s newly configured service development team will be working with members and networks to drive an enterprise culture within and across the NCVYS community. How do we propose to do that?
• Evaluating member feedback to ensure existing services are relevant to sector needs;
• Collaborating on the development of enterprising activities across the organization, which place young people and/or the benefit of young people at their core;
• Brokering relationships between members; ensuring those partnerships work and thus empowering the sector;
• Incorporating a CIC as a trading arm to NCVYS, to mainstream, market and license products developed with or by the membership;
• Advocating to the new government the need for sustainable approaches to service delivery
• And finally, to keep it fun, we’ll be launching an exciting fundraising campaign very soon for the benefit of our members … For more information please contact Beth Parker, Director of Service Development NCVYS Young Partners Award 2010 - Open for nominations
Do you work with young people aged 11-25?
Are young people actively involved in the decision making processes within your organisation or project?
If yes, then act now and make your nomination for a NCVYS Young Partners Award today and be in with the chance of receiving great prizes!!
Please remember the closing date for all applications is Friday 17th September 2010. For further information and to make a nomination please read more...
NCVYS Annual Conference and AGM - Exhibition opportunities
The NCVYS Annual Conference and AGM is set to take place on Wednesday 3rd November in London. The overarching theme of the conference is a celebration of the innovative nature of our sector and its ability to solve society’s most intractable problems in an innovative and creative way.
As our flagship event, we are expecting 150 delegates to attend. This will include a wide representation of the NCVYS membership made up of voluntary and community organisations working with young people.
This is a fantastic opportunity to engage with the voluntary and community youth sector, it's a key chance to showcase your work to a wider audience and take advantage of network and partnership opportunities across the NCVYS network. If you are interested in exhibiting please contact Selena Brown for further information.
Find our more about the conference and choose your seminar options here.
To book a place at the conference please email annualconference@ncvys.org.uk
Come and join the Youth Zone at the party conference with NCVYS
NCVYS will be going to party conference this year as a founding member of the Coalition for Young People which gives a voice to NCVYS members and partners supporting young people at each of the three major political party conferences. This year our presence at the conference includes a range of activity all taking place in a youth zone at each of the party conferences, which sees the coalition for young people address the following key issues for young people:
• What’s Youth Got To Do With It?
• Positive for Youth
• From House to Home
• Equality, Fairness and The Big Society
• Young People and Money
• Young People and the Digital Divide
• Quality Services
• Young Reporters
If you are at party conference, this is a great opportunity to raise the voice of young people by coming along to the youth zone and supporting NCVYS. The Conservative party conference is on Sunday 3rd October, the Labour party conference is on 26th September and the Liberal Democrat party conference will be held on 20th September. For more information please contact Faiza Chaudary, Director of Policy and Communications on 020 7278 1041. Exchange issue 9: Youth Participation
The latest issue of NCVYS's quarterly magazine Exchange is now online. Readers can view this issue on ‘Youth Participation' as well as an archive of past issues by clicking on the below image. Exchange is a quarterly national magazine which brings together a unique collection of news, policy analysis and practical advice for voluntary and community organisations and networks working with and for young people. More...
View the photos from the NCVYS Parliamentary Event
An opportunity to see snapshots from the NCVYS Parliamentary Event and the 'Investing in our Future: introducing the third sector's young people's workforce capacity building project' - and a video from the event.