CCVS MEMBER GROUPS 4 Sight Vision Support - (GO) West Sussex - Action for Deafness - Active Sussex - African Diaspora Sussex - Age UK West Sussex Alzheimer’s Society – West Sussex North - Art Shake - Aspire Sussex Ltd - Autism Parent Empower - Autism Support Crawley B&CE Charitable Trust - Beta Futures (50+ Skills Exchange club) - Bewbush Action Group - Bewbush Community Nursery CIC Bhakti Yoga Centre Crawley - Broadfi eld Community Centre - CAMEO (Come & Meet Each Other) CLUB - Carers Support West Sussex Central Africa’s Rights & AIDS (CARA) Society - Central and South Sussex Citizen’s Advice - Chagos Football Association Chagos Islanders Movement - Christ the Lord Church - Circle Club - Circles Network - Civil Service Pensioners Alliance - CPRE Sussex Crawley and Horsham Heart Support Group - Crawley and Sussex Laryngectomy Club - Crawley Arts Council - Crawley Audio News Crawley CAP Debt Centre - Crawley Campaign Against Racism - Crawley Community Transport - Crawley Community Youth Service Crawley District Scout Council - Crawley Ethnic Minorities Partnership - Crawley Festival - Crawley Hockey Club - Crawley Museum Crawley Interfaith Network - Crawley Neighbourhood Watch - Crawley Open House - Crawley Run Crew - Crawley Sea Cadets Crawley Senior Muslim Forum - Crawley Signal Box Preservation Society - Crawley Sostar Youth - Crawley Town Community Foundation Crawley U3A - Crawley United Reformed Church - Crawley Women United - Crawley Youth and Community Centre - Creative Future Crossroads Care South Central - Diverse Crawley - DreamCatcher Productions - Eastern Stream Association - EKTA Elim Church Crawley - Emerging Futures - Family Support Work - Flamingoes Swimming Club Friends of Burley’s Wood - Friends of Goffs Park - Furnistore - Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group - Girlguiding Crawley Giving Back Crawley - Golden Lion Children’s Trust - Gossops Community Forum - Grattons Indoor Bowls Club - Gravity Gurjar Hindu Union - Headway West Sussex - Healthwatch West Sussex - Hearing Dogs for the Deaf - Heatherley Cheshire Henfi eld Social Enterprise CIC - Holistic Harmony CIC - Home-Start CHAMS - Horsham Child Contact Centre 2018 Horsham & Crawley Counselling Group - Ifi eld Park Care Home Limited - Ifi eld Tennis Club - Kasin Education Foundation Trust Kashmiri Women Welfare Association - League of Friends Crawley Hospital - Lifecentre - Lithuanian Community GINTARAS - L.E.A.P. Local Help Crawley - LPK Learning CIC - Maidenbower Pre-School Playgroup - Mary How Trust for Cancer Prevention Midhurst Youth Trust - Milton Mount Community Choir - Mind in Brighton and Hove - Missing People Montefi ore Institute Management Committee - Nature Nurture Sussex - New Life Africa International UK - NSPCC Openfi elds Disabled & Carers Club - Outset Youth Action - Over 50 Skill Swap Club - Over The Wall Children’s Charity Parish of Worth, Pound Hill and Maidenbower - Phoenix Choir of Crawley - Polish Saturday School - Pregnancy Matters Snapshots from the CCVS Report and Accounts 2017/2018 Rainbow Pre-school - Rape Crisis Surrey and Sussex - Ready Steady Grow Pre-school Redeemed Christian Church of God Courage Centre - Reigate Stepping Stones - Relate North & South West Sussex - Rivers for Women Rivers LPC - Rivers Resource SPACE for Women - Royal Voluntary Service - RSPCA Sussex North Branch - SAATHI Granny Respite Club Helping you make a difference Sage Counselling - Safe Haven for Donkeys - Samaritans of Horsham and Crawley - SASH Charity - Seeds of Change Shaw Trust - Shelter - Sikh Community Centre Crawley - Single Parents Support C.I.C - Siri Guru Singh Sabha Southdown Housing Association - Special Families East Grinstead - Springboard Project - Streetlight UK - Street360 St Catherine’s Hospice - St Margaret’s Church - St Peters House Project - St Vincent’s (SVP) Community Shop - Sussex Arts Academy Sussex Association for Spina Bifi da and Hydrocephalus - Sussex Children and Families of Prisoners Sussex Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes Group - Sussex Nightstop - Sussex Oakleaf - Sussex Weald Oddfellows - TAG - Talk Broadfi eld Tamil Learning Centre, Crawley - Ten Little Toes Baby Bank - The As You Are Centre - The Brigitte Trust - The Capital Project Trust The Crawley Community Shop Limited - The Forget me not Club (Crawley) - The Future Foundation The League of Friends of Crawley Hospitals - The Lighthouse Project Crawley - The Olive Tree - The Posh Club (Duckie) The Probus Club of Crawley Forest - The Works - Three Bridges Cricket Club - Three Bridges Forum - Tilgate Community Forum The Year in Numbers: CCVS Priorities Treasure Island GB CIC - TS Glorious Nautical Training Corps - Uganda Crawley Community Association - Walking for Wellbeing 70 organisations & Priority 1: West Green Community Forum - West Green WI - West Sussex Mediation Service - West Sussex Music Trust 7 392 Enable the emergence of new West Sussex & Surrey Angling Academy - Worthing Churches Homeless Projects - YMCA DLG Crawley Foyer - YMCA East Surrey 3 schools Tweets & re-Tweets voluntary sector organisations Young at Heart Over 60 Club - Young Enterprise West Sussex signed up to partnership projects friends of CCVS Priority 2: Friends of CCVS Support the growth and Adur and Worthing Councils - Crawley Borough Council - Home Instead Senior Care - Horsham District Council 176 development of established Springfi t Academy - Star cars-wheelchair accessible taxi service - West Sussex County Council 816 voluntary sector organisations Member CCVS NEWS Twitter 709 Followers groups Forum e-bulletin Priority 3: 960 subscribers Promote and represent the If you would like more details on how CCVS Newsletter recipients voluntary sector within Crawley can best support your voluntary organisation Helping 630 Priority 4: contact us to fi nd out more Room new groups joined = you make a Bookings 29% increase in Members Improve our own internal structure, 40 systems and processes to enable us Telephone: Address: to continue to provide support to 01293 657000 The Orchard, difference… Total Page Likes the sector 180 Email: 1-2 Gleneagles Court 183 Facebook Page likes = 27% increase [email protected] Brighton Road 160 Web: Crawley 140 www.crawleycvs.org RH10 6AD May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Feb Mar 2017 2018 A registered charity number: 1094699 A company limited by guarantee number: 4488714 A word from our Chief Executive CCVS Forums Partnerships Team We have continued to bring the voluntary The Partnerships Team work on long term and working groups. This includes on Collaborative Working and a Special It has been another exciting year for but very professional way. They are sector together through our quarterly projects with our member organisations producing regular “state of the sector” Report on Children & Families. The team Crawley Community & Voluntary Service supported by our wonderful reception forums: and statutory partners, and represent the reports based on feedback from Forum also manages several partnership projects local voluntary and community sector meetings and the annual survey of CCVS bringing together organisations bidding (CCVS) with existing projects expanding volunteers who gave us thousands of • Crawley Mental Health Forum on a number of strategic partnerships members. This year we produced a report for funding to support local people. and new projects being developed in hours of support. We are also lucky • Young Crawley Children response to the needs of to have a board of trustees who are & Families Forum our Members. engaged and enthusiastic and I would Partnership Projects like to extend a special thank you to my • Crawley Older Persons Forum Prescription Plus+ Young Crawley Since joining CCVS in November 2017, predecessor Peter Mansfi eld-Clark, who • Crawley Housing & I have been delighted to meet so many Prescription Plus aims to improve the health The Young Crawley Family Credits Project stepped in as CEO when our previous Homelessness Forum dedicated and innovative organisations and wellbeing of local people by connecting completed its fourth year of delivery this Chief Executive went on maternity leave. who are working to improve the lives of • Crawley Volunteer them to community support and activities. year, continuing to link vulnerable families However, it’s not “goodbye” as Peter will people in Crawley and around the world. Management Forum The pilot was funded by Crawley Borough with local voluntary sector support. During individuals considered be re-joining the CCVS Trustee Board Council at Southgate Medical Group, Langley this period 138 referrals were discussed at In particular, I’ve enjoyed attending In addition, the Community Safety Forum 277 for Young Crawley Family and is continuing his role as Chair of the Corner Surgery, Leacroft Medical Practice and the Crawley Family Support Network Forum, our Forums and seeing fi rst hand how run in partnership with Crawley Borough Credits from 100 families Crawley Housing & Homelessness Forum. Gossops Green Medical Centre. or directly with IPEH key workers (Integrated organisations in Crawley can work Council, provides regular “Briefi ng Events” Prevention and Earliest Help services - West Using a menu of support and activities together – for example, Members who Thank you again to everyone for the for front line workers across both statutory Sussex), for a total of 277 individuals in people attended offered by CCVS members, the Prescription distribute food creating a WhatsApp warm welcome and I very much look and voluntary sectors. 100 families. Referrals were made to Young Young Crawley Plus Community Support Coordinator works Crawley Consortium members for specialist event group so that no donations of food will forward to meeting more of the wonderful out with the person what might help them support (mental health / autism / young ever be wasted. organisations in Crawley. Quarterly forums to feel better and more in control of their 104 6 families / disability), specialist counselling or = 18 meetings own situation. The Coordinator not only CCVS also represents the Voluntary Sector for focused youth activities. on a number of outside committees refers patients to appropriate services, but Referrals made accompanies them to the fi rst session, including; CCG, Prevent Board, Regenerate to participating Susan Brumpton organisations introducing them to the person coordinating Crawley, Safer Crawley Partnership and 96 Young Crawley Chief Executive attended Forums the particular service or activity. WS Wellbeing & Resilience Board. 105 organisations Surgeries participating in CCVS has an exceptional team of staff 4 27 new groups started Prescription Plus+ pilot project who all do a wonderful job in a friendly attending Forums Crawley Skills Swap Local Voluntary & Community Sector organisations on 40 This new project for 2017/18 aims to staff and service users from other Network Advice Volunteer Crawley Prescription Plus Menu increase understanding and join-up in members. This is free for organisations to Crawley by sharing skills, knowledge and access, and works on a quid pro quo basis. CCVS continues to receive high demand The Engagement Offi cer promotes locations for monthly 512 Supported referrals experience between frontline organisations from local organisations for funding, volunteering via Volunteer Advice Sessions 4 volunteer drop-ins in Crawley. Organisations are invited to join governance and development support throughout the month at: Crawley Library, Engagement rate 60% the Skills Swap Network, both to offer their organisations including our “Fit for Funding” tool, Broadfi eld Library, Crawley Town Hall and own unique knowledge and experience 14 participating in 240 enquiries to to others, and to access training and bi-weekly funding e-bulletin, drop-in Maidenbower Park Pavilion. One-to-one Volunteer Crawley Crawley Skills Swap surgeries, good practice guides and advice is available to people who have awareness-raising sessions for their own tailored one-to-one advice sessions. additional support needs or have special The CCVS Groups Advisor continues to circumstances. Others, with more general 50 articles in CREW project Crawley Observer, encourage organisations to diversify their enquiries, are encouraged to use online The CREW (Crawley Resilience and Council, West Sussex County Council, and a “Personally for myself it was income base, increase fi nancial resilience resources. There has also been continued Emotional Wellbeing) Project range of voluntary and community sector a lifeline to have contact with through effective written plans, and support to local organisations to recruit 1325 Hours donated is a new project around organisations. Through the project, local promote specifi c funding sources. volunteers by promoting opportunities on “the outside world. On being” emotional wellbeing for schools will be able to access a range the new volunteering pages of our website by CCVS Volunteers put in touch with Prescription children, young people and of training for staff and volunteers, and in the Crawley Observer. on Reception Plus through my surgery my life families from the Young support for children, young people has had a big, massive change Crawley Consortium. and families, and positive activities 70 organisations Training around.” Throughout 2017/2018 for children and young people 1:1 In 2017 CCVS offered training to members this project has been provided by local organisations with received 1:1 advice training sessions & 65 year old patient, with limited developed by a range of the aim of improving mental health in Publicity - Pictures and Promotion and mobility, mental health struggles and learning lunches local partners including and emotional wellbeing. Social Media, Fire Marshalling, Volunteer 10 issues with fi nance schools, Crawley Borough new groups Managers Surgery, Accounts Drop-in, participants Equality and Diversity Workshop, Food 52 13 supported Safety, and Autism Training. However, following a review, it was decided to focus on Learning Lunches and Briefi ng Sessions people from 49 successful grant Future Plans at CCVS on current topical subjects which have been organisations attended applications made 56 In 2018/2019 we will be focusing our We will also be launching the CREW running till March 2019. Therefore we will more popular with members and local Meet the Funders event 18 by groups that organisations than formal training courses. efforts on rolling out the expansion of project pilot in six Crawley schools, and we be undertaking consultation with member had received CCVS The fi rst of the new style learning lunches the Prescription Plus project which we will continue to develop the joint forum groups and stakeholders to develop a support was held on the topic of “Proving Your “Really great all round event believe has the potential to transform the Skills Swap programme which aims to new strategy from 2019 onwards to Impact” in spring 2018. In March 2018 we re: networking opportunities; lives of so many living in Crawley. This increase understanding and knowledge continue providing the best possible held our fi rst “Meet the Funders Event” at the meeting different funding includes recruiting a new Prescription between organisations in Crawley. support to the voluntary and community “ ” Plus Engagement Offi cer and a second sector in Crawley. K2 Crawley, with presentations by the Big organisations; thank you very much Finally, our current strategic priories were £59,220 Community Support Coordinator to cover raised for members Lottery, Heritage Lottery, Sussex Community for a very informative and thought decided in 2013 as the basis of a plan Foundation, and BBC Children in Need. provoking day.” four new surgeries in 2018/2019.