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 website

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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

Appendix B - Merton Volunteering Strategy 25-27.pdf
EIA VCS Volunteering.pdf
Appendix A - Merton VCS Strategy 25-27.pdf
VCS Volunteering Strategies - Cabinet June 2025 FINAL.pdf

Details

OutcomeRecommendations Approved
Decision date23 Jun 2025
Subject to call-inYes