Merton's Interim Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy 2025-27 and Interim Volunteering Strategy 2025-27
June 23, 2025 Cabinet (Cabinet collective) Key decision Approved View on council websiteThis summary is generated by AI from the council’s published record and supporting documents. Check the full council record and source link before relying on it.
Summary
...to adopt the Interim Volunteering Strategy 'Defining and Designing the Volunteering Realm in Merton', the interim Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy 'Evaluating the VCS Landscape in Merton and Shaping the Council's Relationship with the VCS', and to extend the Civic Pride Fund: Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector 2023-26 for a further financial year in 2026-27.
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Purpose
This paper presents
two separate, but interlinked, interim strategies and action plans
for the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) and Volunteering which
lay the foundations for the development and co-production of two
longer term strategies that will cover the period
2027-2035.
Decision
RESOLVED:
A. Agree to adopt the Interim
Volunteering Strategy ‘Defining and Designing the
Volunteering Realm in Merton’
B. Agree to adopt the interim
Voluntary and Community Sector Strategy ‘Evaluating the VCS
Landscape in Merton and Shaping the Council’s Relationship
with the VCS’
C. Agree to extend the Civic
Pride Fund: Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector 2023-26
for a further financial year in 2026-27.
Related Meeting
Cabinet - Monday 23 June 2025 7.15 pm on June 23, 2025
Supporting Documents
Details
| Outcome | Recommendations Approved |
| Decision date | 23 Jun 2025 |
| Subject to call-in | Yes |