Poole Compact

Poole Compact

Increasingly the Borough of Poole and its statutory partners work in partnership with the Poole voluntary and community sector, including the many faith groups in the Town.

Statutory agencies provide much needed funding and other forms of support. In return voluntary and community groups provide a variety of essential services, as well as enabling local people to become involved in tackling issues they see as important.

This close working can produce a number of challenges, and to help address them, Compacts (written documents) have been developed across the UK, detailing how best the two sectors can work in partnership.

In Poole, we have a Compact - the 'Working Together Agreement' as well as a concise summary - the 'Poole Charter' to help people. We also recognise that it is not enough to produce a number of documents and as a result hope that new partnerships will be made, and new services developed. Over the next year Poole CVS aims to do more work with colleagues in both sectors to improve partnership work, specifically focussing on:-

• how we can improve the way in which services are funded and commissioned from the voluntary and community sector;
• how the voluntary and community sector is involved in the planning of services, and how we can make this process more effective for everyone;
• highlighting the good partnership work which already exists in Poole and how we can learn from it.

I am confident that because of the skills and commitment in both sectors, our partnership work will become stronger over the coming years.

Christopher Beale
Director, Poole Council for Voluntary Service

Poole Advice Centre
54 Lagland Street
Poole
Dorset
BH15 1QG

Tel: 01202 682046
Fax: 01202 667187
E-mail: director@poolecvs.co.uk

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The Poole Charter

Principles for equal partnership adopted by Poole Partnership in order to deliver excellence in community work and service provision in Poole

Motivated by our values we commit ourselves to serve others by aspiring to the following standards in all our community work.

We will provide an inclusive service to our community by:

1. Serving and respecting all people regardless of their gender, marital status, race, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or physical and mental capability.
2. Acknowledging the freedom of people of all faiths or none both to hold and to express their beliefs and convictions respectfully and freely, within the limits of the UK law.
3. Never imposing our values, faith or belief on others.
4. Developing partnerships with other churches, voluntary groups, statutory agencies and local government wherever appropriate in order to create an effective, integrated service for our clients avoiding unnecessary duplication of resources.
5. Providing and publicising regular consultation and reporting forums to client groups and the wider community regarding the effective development and delivery of our work and our responsiveness to their actual needs.

We will serve all individuals in a way that is consistent with our distinctive values by:

1. Creating an environment where clients, volunteers and employees are encouraged and enabled to realise their potential.
2. Assisting our clients, volunteers and employees to take responsibility for their own learning and development, both through formal and informal training opportunities and ongoing assessment.
3. Developing an organisational culture in which individuals learn from any mistakes made and where excellence and innovation are encouraged and rewarded.
4. Promoting the value of a balanced, holistic lifestyle as part of each individual.s overall personal development.
5. Abiding by the requirements of employment law in the UK and implementing best employment practices and procedures designed to maintain our distinctive ethos and values.

We will develop a professional approach to management, practice and funding by:

1. Implementing a management structure, which fosters and encourages participation by staff at all levels in order to facilitate the fulfilment of the agreed goals and visions.
2. Setting and reviewing measurable and timed outcomes annually, and regularly to evaluate and monitor our management structure and output, recognising the need for ongoing organisational flexibility, development and good stewardship of resources.
3. Doing all we can to ensure that we are not over-dependent on any one source of funding.
4. Implementing best practice procedures in terms of Health and Safety and Child Protection in order to protect our staff, volunteers and clients.
5. Handling our funding in a transparent and accountable way and to give relevant people from outside our organisation/project reasonable access to our accounts.

January 2007

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