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The Forum is the voice of Reading’s Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS). Our representatives work with statutory partnerships to formulate strategy and instigate positive change.

All voluntary and community sector groups working in Reading are automatically members of The Forum.

The Forum commits to:

  • Challenge and question on behalf of the wider voluntary and community sector
  • Embrace and promote the importance of equality and celebrate diversity
  • Share a commitment to making Reading a better place to live
  • Encourage best practice, and ensure the accountability of the sector
  • Enable partnership working and collaboration across sectors while retaining the VCS identity and without compromising on values

The Forum aims to:

  • Ensure cohesion and co-ordination within the voluntary and community sector
  • Work to create a voluntary sector voice, that has the strength to influence
  • Ensure that the voluntary sector is effectively represented in local policy making
  • Promote the interests of the voluntary sector and promote social justice
  • Provide the opportunity to debate matters of concern
  • Work to be inclusive

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Monday 22nd March 2010

09.30 – 15.30

Royal Berkshire Conference Centre Madejski Stadium
Reading RG2 0FL

The ‘Vision and Voice’ conference is the local voluntary and community sector’s opportunity to directly input into the vision for Reading 2030.  Under discussion will be the key issues that the VCS want to see included in the refreshed Sustainable Community Strategy.  Presentations and workshops will identify aspirations, priorities and ideas on how Reading should adapt and grow to promote the wellbeing of the town’s residents.

More information on the conference, including speaker information and further details of a ‘take-away toolkit’ to help local groups identify their own priorities, will be available shortly. Please check this web page for more details.

The conference is free to anyone involved with a voluntary and community group in Reading. However, due to high demand, we may have to limit spaces to one delegate per organisation. To book your place, click here, or contact Anna Fowler on 0118 958 4849.

 

Understand How you Fit into the Bigger Picture with Stronger Together's Partnership Maps

Stronger Together have mapped the relationships between the local voluntary and community sector and statutory partners to provide a living document of how both sectors work together.

We hope to expand on these diagrams as partnerships develop, but if you would like to comment on them please contact Anna Fowler at Stronger Together.