Our Mission
“To support individuals, organisations and communities to achieve their full potential.”
Our Vision
- For CVS to lead positive social, economic and environmental change transforming how the VCFSE Sector works collaboratively with the public and private sectors.
- For CVS to be a valued community partner, recognized as the lead local infrastructure support organisation for communities within Blackburn with Darwen and elsewhere.
Our Values
Community Stewardship:
valuing service to the community over self-interest and believing everyone has a responsibility to support positive social change for our community now and in the future. To advocate on behalf of our communities, especially the most vulnerable.
Co-operation and Solidarity:
valuing mutual support with everyone helping each other to deliver positive social change.
Equity and Fairness:
valuing the well-being of everyone and striving to achieve social, economic and environmental justice for all.
Non-Judgemental:
valuing everyone for who they are without prejudice or judgement.
Voluntary Action:
valuing people and organisations giving their time freely to help other people within our communities.
Willingness to Listen, Learn & Innovate:
valuing trying new ideas and new approaches to tackling some of the deep seated socio-economic and environmental challenges that our communities face.
Our Strategic Objectives
Our Outcomes
Socially:
To build fairer, more active, more connected and resilient communities.
Economically:
To build an inclusive and mixed economy with higher levels of entrepreneurial activity and a more creative, skilled and productive workforce.
Environmentally:
To mobilise our communities to take greater care of our natural world and our climate.
Partnerships
Community CVS works closely with a range of partners from all sectors to achieve its mission and vision for the borough. At a Borough level, we are helping to develop partnerships to better use existing resources and bring additional external resources to the local area to tackle local priorities. We offer a number of services to support partners in their service delivery in the borough, for example our Volunteer Bank and Volunteer Passport training.
We are working closely with the Borough Council in the development of the Volunteer Strategy and with the CCG to deliver Volunteering on Prescription and are the nominated lead to develop volunteering for the Plan for Prosperity.
Community CVS is a delivery partner for the integrated Information, Advice and Guidance system for the borough alongside Age UK, Care Network, East Lancashire Deaf Society, New Ground, Carers Service and Bootstrap Enterprises. We have a Memorandum of Understanding with Blackburn College and the Families Health and Well-being Consortium.
Membership and Representation
Community CVS is a member of local, regional and national bodies including:
- NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations)
- Voluntary Sector North West
- Lancashire Association of CVS’s
- Community Matters
- Volunteering North West
Quality Accreditation
- Community CVS achieved Investors in people in 1997 and have held it ever since
- We are nationally accredited – achieving Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation in 2003 and have held it ever since
- We are a qualified Advisor for the Investing in Volunteers (http://iiv.investinginvolunteers.org.uk) National Quality Standard
Your views
We are committed to working with individuals (residents, students, volunteers) and partner organisations from across the public, social and commercial economies to make positive changes to our neighbourhoods and communities. On behalf of the trustees, we would welcome your views and suggestions on how we can work together ‘to support communities to transform lives’.
- Community CVS was set in 1986 became a company limited by guarantee in 1991
- Registered charity – No 1008190
- Company Limited by Guarantee – No 2668971
- Community CVS is the trading name of Blackburn with Darwen Council for Voluntary Service