Bolsover Local Strategic Partnership and INVOLVE, the Community Empowerment Network for the area, work together to take forward Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategies at neighbourhood level.
The Community/Voluntary Sectors offer:
- Specialist knowledge, experience and/or skills - This comes through direct, relevant experience.
- Particular ways of involving people in service delivery - an example would be an organisation working closely with users to plan and deliver services.
- Independence from existing and past structures of service - voluntary and community organisations are not bound by structures or rules in the ways that more traditional public sector agencies are. Independence means they can try to deliver services in new, creative and innovative ways.
- Access to the wider community - The voluntary and community sector is independent of government and therefore free to be on the users 'side'.
The sector can offer services which are customer led as they are not driven by budgets and targets within the public sector.