Voluntary Action Epping Forest working in partnership with other organisations

 

 

Voluntary Action Epping Forest is keen to work productively and for mutual benefit

with other local organisations and agencies. Examples of our partnership working

are listed here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rainbow Services

In September 2008 VAEF and Rainbow Services will be jointly delivering the FAIR Project - support for local organisations in both Epping Forest and Harlow with seeking funding and information provision.

 

Epping Forest District Council

VAEF has an excellent working relationship with EFDC. Aside from being our core funder, they support VAEF in many other ways such as IT support, premises and policy advice.

 

Voluntary Sector Training

VAEF and the Volunteer Centre Epping Forest, part of Volunteers Centres Essex, is working in partnership with Voluntary Sector Training (VST), an independent charity, to provide high quality, affordable and local training to the voluntary and community sector across Essex. VST runs an open programme of training covering key topics relevant to the sector and tailored training specifically arranged to meet particular needs of organisations .

For a current training programme or more information, call 01371 876747 or visit the VST website by clicking here

 

One Epping Forest (LSP)

Working with the LSP brings several key advantages to partner organisations Ensures that working through the LSP brings 'added value' to the work of partners and helps achieve things that partners could not achieve working alone.

Brings together local plans, partnerships and initiatives to provide a forum through which the public, private, voluntary and community sectors can work effectively together to meet local needs and priorities.

Promotes the engagement of all Epping Forest's people and communities in decisions about the future of the District.

Working with partners to ensure that their organisations adopt the Partnership's aims and objectives and endeavour to implement them within and through their own organisations.

 

Epping Forest Safer Communities Partnership

Epping Forest Safer Communities Partnership is a collaboration of organisations, representatives and group working together to make Epping Forest District a safe and pleasant place to live.

The partnership is responsible for reducing crime, anti-social behaviour, substance misuse and concerns about these issues in Epping Forest.

Our partners include VAEF, Essex Police, Essex Fire & Rescue Service, West Essex

Primary Care Trust, Essex Probation Service, Help the Aged, Essex Police Authority and Victim Support.

Our key priorities are:

* Reduce violent crime

* Reduce serious acquisitive crime

* Reduce Anti-social behaviour

* Target substance misuse

* Prolific Offenders

* Target fear and perceptions of crime

Epping Forest benefits from a very strong partnership and a genuine commitment from local organisations to keep streets and neighbourhoods safe, to make sure victims feel cared for, to keep our young people safe and out of trouble and to appropriately punish and rehabilitate offenders.

 

 

Essex Police

Voluntary Action Epping Forest has worked with Essex Police on various occasions including community events providing information to the general public. VAEF has also worked together with Essex Police and the Safer Communities partnership on neighbourhood action panels and district special action groups.

 

West Essex Primary Care Trust

The PCT has worked with VAEF on a numbers of projects and refers clients to our services. The PCT also provides funding for a number of VAEF projects.

 

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