Sandwell Council of Voluntary Organisations - SCVO. Supporting the Growth of Community Action in Sandwell.

SCVO held their Summer Event on 14th July 2009 at Sandwell Council.  The event was a huge success and was attended by over 100 members. 

On the day, there were presentations given by Dr Patrick Saunders from Sandwell PCT on how organisations should respond to the swine flu pandamic.   Neil Cleeveley, from NACVA gave an overview of how voluntary and community sector organiastiosn need to respond to change and John Garrett from Sandwell MBC provided an overview of how Sandwell Council is supporting the local voluntary and community sector.  A copy of Neil Cleeveley’s presentation can be downloaded here

Lively discussions then took place within focus groups around the following themes and feedback can be accessed by clicking below:-

• How Influential Do You Want To Be?
• Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council’s Funding Strategy
• Focus on Sandwell: Big Lottery Fund

A straw Poll was also taken to gauge how members felt around such issues as, the effects of the economic climate, partnership working and threats to organisations.  Feedback can be found by clicking here

SCVO would like to thank all those who attended the event and for taking part in the discussions.

“It was a most enjoyable and very, very, informative conference”

“Well done, congratulations – arrangements for the conference were well organised”

“Overall a very informative day – extremely useable information”