We help to build local communities through volunteer and community engagement programmes. We link organisations who wish to involve volunteers with people wanting to offer their time as a volunteer, and run projects which enable people to engage with their communities.
We offer support to voluntary and community organisations in Northampton helping to maximise their effectiveness and become more flexible in approach to the current and changing environment.
Our work with communities has two main threads, building communities through our volunteer and community engagement programmes, and supporting local community organisations to grow, develop and thrive.
HMP Five Wells wellbeing service
Our wellbeing programme for residents and staff of the new HMP Five Wells opening in Wellingborough. Our Resident Engagement & Wellbeing Officer will run the programme which will be aimed at improving residents’ health and wellbeing and helping them to make community connections.
Poverty Truth Commission
The Poverty Truth Commission for Northampton rests within the West Unitary Authority and is hosted by Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire. Read more about the project.
Water-saving campaign
We are currently working with Anglian Water on a water-saving campaign in Northampton, to coincide with the rollout of smart water meters in some parts of the town.
Another project approach offered by Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire around the issues of social cohesion and Social action. We deliver intelligent data on a place based area. We drive new volunteering initiatives. We drive social action and the formulation of new community groups. We drive place based networks and connectivity. We deliver this within an area, over a 4 month period on a rolling programme across agreed people and places. We dovetail with existing neighbourhood or parish development plans.
We all know that communities live in places and that places are important. But places often need shaping and the local community is often best placed to do this.
Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire has a process of social engagement known as Make the Place: Shape the Future, which sits at the heart of place-based social development. For more information contact us.
