1. Common Purpose Common Cause
The story
so far…

2. Welcome Cllr Barrie Hargrove Rosemary Watts
Cabinet Member for Communities and Safety, Southwark Council
Rosemary Watts
Head of Membership & Engagement and Equalities, Southwark CCG
@cosouthwark

3. To support a sustainable, confident and resourceful voluntary and community sector that can work alongside the public and private sector to deliver the best outcomes for Southwark residents.
To sustain and build strong, cohesive communities where no one group or community is left behind.
To improve outcomes for residents that reduces and prevents future demand on high cost, high demand services.

4. In five years we said we would…
Create better partnership working to improve outcomes for residents
Improve commissioning and grant giving to focus on outcomes
Use community assets to revitalise communities & create preventative places
Enable and support more resilient communities that are connected and more resourceful

5. Four work-streams Digital Integration Information and intelligence
Commissioning and grants
Community assets

6. Partnerships | ideas
Set of core principles outlining standards for working together, early engagement, co-design and collaboration
Support Southwark Giving and other ways to get better partnerships with business.
Open up access to data across agencies to assist service design, funding applications and measurement of outcomes
Change approaches to co-design, early engagement and collaborative commissioning, VCS supported to work together.

7. Commissioning | ideas
New strategic commissioning board improve coordination of VCS commissioning and collaborative commissioning
New grants programme: longer term grants and shorter term innovation grants
Create a common outcomes framework that will provide a core set of outcomes aligned to CCG and Council priorities
Develop a specification for an online platform that is designed around the needs of the individual

8. Community assets | ideas
Identify and develop premises for VCS incubation in conjunction with the development of the short term innovation grants.
Review 2008 Statement of Community Involvement
Review engagement exercises pre consultation
Revised Community Asset Transfer approach is in place and promoted across the sector. Resources and guidance available
Online booking system for community halls
Area based resources make free space available to informal groups

9. Community assets | ideas
Identify and develop premises for VCS incubation in conjunction with the development of the short term innovation grants.
Review 2008 Statement of Community Involvement
Review engagement exercises pre consultation
Revised Community Asset Transfer approach is in place and promoted across the sector. Resources and guidance available
Online booking system for community halls
Area based resources make free space available to informal groups

10. Connected communities | ideas
Mapping exercises being undertaken into community assets in two places in borough
Create priorities within the revised grants programme to support volunteer coordinators
Create priorities within the revised grants programme to support Community Connectors
Support groups of people to develop their ideas into action so they are creating activities they and their friends like to do

11. Your turn… Four groups Commissioning Partnerships Community Assets
Connected Communities
Do these actions match your hopes?
Will these actions make a difference to you/your organisation/group/community/users?
What do you think needs to be changed or amended to these actions/developments?

12. Feedback and next steps Thank you