VIN’s Annual Snapshot can be viewed here.

We hope you enjoy its contents. The Snapshot will also be made available at our Annual General Meeting scheduled for the 24th of November 2022 between 6PM and 7.30PM. If you wish to attend, please let us know at info@voluntaryimpact.org.uk.

It is undoubtedly still a challenging landscape for the Voluntary and Community sector in Northamptonshire. Funding restrictions, funder re-prioritisation and competition all make for a fragile VCSE, at a time when individuals and communities will need us more than ever. The last three-year period has in many ways been a rinse and repeat cycle of disruption and transformation, yet the VCSE has stepped up to the challenge and continued to deliver services in a new and innovative manner. What VIN now wants to see is more long-term grant or contract programmes where we move beyond outcomes and into real societal impact. The short-term nature of current funding prevents this, but it’s an absolute necessity to ensure that communities of all shapes and sizes are lifted in line with the Levelling Up Agenda: Key to this is Infrastructure, ensuring the resilience pathways for fledgling and established Voluntary organisations who can build and develop in the certain knowledge that they will be there to provide not just in 12 months’ time but over the next 20.