Archive for month: July, 2022

At VIN, we are always looking at new ways of working with local business. We realise that business lives, works, and invests in many of the same communities we operate in, and like us, helps to connect People to Places. Our Corporate Membership provides the opportunity for local business to tailor their Corporate and Social Responsibility by working with a well-respected local Charity with a history of over 30 years in Northamptonshire.

With prices starting at £500.00 per annum, local business gets a range of benefits including Learning and Development sessions for staff, Health and Wellbeing Network Sessions, the use of the VIN Logo, a mention in our Annual Snapshot and our Friday Bulletin and of course access to differing marketplaces throughout the County.

For more information contact the VIN CEO at Russell.rolph@voluntaryimpact.org.uk

If you prefer Sponsorship as an option, we have two excellent schemes worthy of support:

Northampton Door-to-Door Service: Our fleet of red minibuses can be seen throughout Northampton assisting individuals to remain independent and connected. For many, the service enables individuals to remain independent and live their lives. if you want to raise your business profile what better way than by complete branding or part branding one of our buses. For prices contact Russell.rolph@voluntaryimpact.org.uk

Happy @ Home: Our Happy at Home Service matches volunteers to those who are lonely, isolated, and vulnerable. For many, a visit, or a weekly telephone call from one of our volunteers provides their only contact. Why not support the work we do by funding the recruitment, training, and placing of Home Befriending or Telephone Befriender Volunteers. Prices start from as little as £250.00 and it’s a great way of helping your local community. Contact Russell.rolph@voluntaryimpact.org.uk for more information.

If your interested in the subject of Poverty or Financial Vulnerability, and you want to hear more about the Poverty Truth Commission in West Northamptonshire then why not join us.

Andrew Grinnell from the Poverty Truth Network will be talking about his experiences of other Poverty Truth Commissions across the UK, including his own in Leeds, and the challenges and opportunities they present.

VIN will be talking about training for Commissioners – and how the Poverty Truth Commission can help inform West Northamptonshire’s Anti-Poverty Strategy and the new ICS Local Area Partnerships.

Lunch is provided – and its free to attend. We would love to see you there..!!

The venue is: Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, 4-6 Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1DP

Time: 11-3

NHS England have produced a Guidance Note entitled Building Strong Integrated Care Systems Everywhere (GN PAR 905)

It is attached for information and can be seen here

It provides excellent context for the ICS generally, but pages 14 – 16 talks specifically about VCSE involvement at a system and local level (Point of Place Delivery).

It also mentions an Alliance Model for the VCSE, which in Northamptonshire rests with the VCSE Assembly and its Thematic Groups. For more information about the Assembly and how to get involved contact the Assembly Project Officer at:

kerri@vcseassembly.org.uk

The conclusion of this Guidance states what for many of us operating within the VCSE is obvious, but it is worth restating:

The voluntary, community and social enterprise sector is key to the creation of successful integrated care systems. NHS England and Improvement are committed to supporting systems to build effective local partnerships everywhere. We hope this guidance will help local leaders to strengthen their arrangements, building on learning from around the country.

Please take the time to read and understand this Guidance.

 

Contracts have been signed to officially confirm ‘collaborative’ status for Integrated Care Northamptonshire’s Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism (MHLDA) programme.

This momentous occasion – which cements the next phase of work to deliver better outcomes for our county’s population – was marked with a special signing session at Berrywood Hospital in Northampton .In attendance to complete the signing of the contracts were Toby Sanders, Chief Executive of NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (NICB), and Angela Hillery, Chief Executive of Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT).They were joined by MHLDA programme leads Anne Rackham and Morgan Price, Andy Willis, a former service user who is now a MHLDA lived experience lead, and David Williams, Director of Strategy and Partnerships for NHFT.

Collaboratives provide a legal framework for organisations to work together in partnership to design and improve services to meet the needs of communities as part of an integrated care system.

The formalisation of the MHLDA programme’s collaborative status means an outcomes-based contract is now in place for service providers in Northamptonshire to work jointly towards shared ambitions, with the priorities of service users and their families at the heart of strategic planning.