The Forum is at the heart of representation, influence and networking across the Reading’s voluntary and community sector.

Forum Voices

The Forum’s representatives on statutory partnership bodies are called ‘Forum Voices’. Voluntary and Community Sector organisations may nominate paid staff, volunteers or trustees to partnership bodies, with elections taking place at the Forum AGM. 

Forum Voices work on several initiatives including: the Local Strategic Partnership, the Social Inclusion Advisory Group and the Reading Compact; and on statutory/voluntary and community sector partnerships working for children and young people, older people and for people with drug, alcohol, disability and health-related issues.

If you would like an issue that is being addressed by your group discussed at statutory level, please contact the relevant Forum Voice below for the following bodies: 

Climate Change Partnership

Community Safety Partnership

Local Strategic Partnership (LSP)

Compact

Connect Reading

 Drug and Alcohol Action Team Locality Commissioning Group

Physical Disability and Sensory Needs Partnership Board

Reading Learning Disability Partnership

Healthier Reading Partnership (HRP)

Reading Children’s Trust (RCT)

 

Climate Change Partnership

The Climate Change Partnership's mission is to deliver local strategic aims for the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in Reading, through working in partnership across the business, voluntary, community and statutory sectors. The partnership will seek to build a citizen, business, public and voluntary consensus for urgent and targeted action.

Contact Joanna Laynesmith, the Forum Voice for this Partnership via Stronger Together:

0118 958 4849

anne.laing@rva.org.uk

 

Community Safety Partnership

Reading's Community Safety Partnership is a partnership between statutory agencies including Reading Borough Council, Thames Valley Police, the Probation Service, Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service and Berkshire West Primary Care Trust. 

We aim to make Reading a safer place for those who live work or visit here. 

 We will do this by:

  • discouraging criminal and anti-social behaviour
  • reducing the fear of crime and anti-social behaviour
  • tackling drug and alcohol related criminality through treatment and enforcement

Forum Voice for this Partnership is Lorraine Joslin, The Rahab Project

lorraine@rahab.co.uk

 

 Local Strategic Partnership (LSP)

 

 

 

The LSP is the key strategic partnership body involved in developing local service strategies.  Its membership is drawn from private, public, voluntary and community sectors to act collectively as a strategic force for change.

VCS Rep on the LSP

Tim Clewer, The Mustard Tree Foundation

0118 941 8005

tim.clewer@themustardtree.org

VCS Rep on the LSP

Richard Corbett, Reading Voluntary Action

0118 957 4123

 richard.corbett@rva.org.uk

Deputy VCS Rep on the LSP

Hazel Broad, Reading Voluntary Action

0118 957 4123

hazel.broad@rva.org.uk

Deputy VCS Rep on the LSP

Steve Masters, BOLGaF

stevemasters1706@hotmail.cm

 

Compact

The Reading Compact is a Steering Group that addresses the principles and parameters of the ongoing relationship between statutory and VCS organisations locally with regard to funding, commissioning and procurement of services, consultation and accountability.

The Forum Voice for this Partnership is Victor Koroma, RCRE

victor@rcre.co.uk 

0118 9510 279

 

 

Connect Reading

 

Connect Reading is a partnership between the business, public and voluntary sectors in Reading. It seeks to provide information and expertise on community involvement opportunities for organisations and supports its members in delivery of their corporate responsibility objectives.

Contact the Forum Voice for the Partnership via Anna Fowler, anne.laing@rva.org.uk

 

Drug and Alcohol Action Team Locality Commissioning Group

Under the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership theme, the DAAT LCG translates the Drug and Alcohol Advisory Group work into service provision.

Anne Laing, Reading Voluntary Action (Temporary Deputy)

0118 958 4849

anne.laing@rva.org.uk

 

Physical Disability and Sensory Needs Partnership Board

The board encourages people with disabilities and sensory needs, their carers and allies to: speak up and be heard, get involved in decisions about service changes and improvements to ensure their needs and challenge attitudes and barriers that prevent people accessing services

Aideen Henry, Graft

Contact via Anne Laing, anne.laing@rva.org.uk, 0118 958 4849

 

Reading Learning Disability Partnership

This partnership was formed in response to the national Valuing People agenda for inclusion, rights, choice and independence. It seeks to influence planning and service delivery toward meeting these aims.

Forum Voice position on this Partnership is currently vacant. For more information, please contact anne.laing@rva.org.uk

 

Healthier Reading Partnership (HRP)

HRP is a partnership that provides advice to the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) on the development of strategies and policies for partnership working in health related services.

James Momoh, Legloma Association

Please contact via Anne Laing, 0118 958 4849,  anne.laing@rva.org.uk 

 

Reading Children’s Trust (RCT)

The Trust is a partnership of statutory and VCS organisations that deliver services to children and young people in Reading. It seeks to address the national Change for Children agenda.

Forum Voices on the Children's Trust are elected through RCVYS

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

Stronger Together has 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 Anne Laing at Reading Voluntary Action.