NEWARK AND SHERWOOD

COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK

 

How CAN We Help Voluntary Organisations?

 

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Sharing Information

  • CAN facilitates events and opportunities which enable member organisations to gain better understanding of other Community and Voluntary Organisations, their services and their referral routes.

  • CAN members can share each others' experience, expertise and ideas through networking, meetings and requests for advice and information.

  • CAN is represented on the Newark & Sherwood Funding Issues Group. Belonging to the group will assist CAN in enabling member organisations to share funding information. CAN ran a series of presentations about writing good funding applications at its Community Lunches last year.

  • CAN members receive regular 'Bulletins' to keep them informed of progress on work in hand and useful information.

Networking

  • Through regular member meetings,  CAN enables organisations to extend their range of contacts in the Community and Voluntary sector.

  • Members of CAN provide each other with mutual support.

  • Membership of CAN enhances communication between Community and Voluntary Organisations and between the sector and its statutory partners. This improved communication is one of CAN's stated objectives in the 2006 Newark & Sherwood Community Plan.

Influencing Local Decision Making

  • CAN regards identifying needs in the voluntary sector and taking them to decision making bodies as a priority.

  • CAN works to promote the interests of its membership. It welcomes information about the concerns and issues faced by individual organisations and from them will seek to identify general issues which can be taken to the appropriate partner organisations or bodies for action. Unfortunately CAN is unable to campaign on behalf of individuals or individual organisations, or to resolve their individual problems.

  • CAN encourages campaigning on issues relevant to its membership.

  • CAN member organisations work together on common objectives and participate in Partnership processes.

  • CAN's involvement in the Local Strategic Partnership and the relationships formed as a result of that enable members to benefit from better communications with Local and Statutory Authorities. To learn more about CAN's involvement with the LSP, click here.

  • The CAN membership, standing at over 100 organisations, has a stronger voice through unity.