Success stories
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Community Services
The aim of the community services team is to work with communities in Lancashire to develop socially inclusive regeneration activity that is built on an ethos of sustainable economic development; prosperity and growth, with a strong focus on supporting those who most need it and of releasing the potential of individuals, communities and businesses in the county.
Fundamental to the work of the team is the idea of community empowerment and the development of active communities and civil renewal, the growth of social enterprise, the development of community anchor organisation, an improvement in the quality of neighbourhood level services and an increase in citizen engagement in neighbourhoods.
The Community Regeneration Team is made up of four areas of work these are:
- Social inclusion
- Financial Inclusion
- Environment
- Third sector procurement (support for social enterprises).
Each area of work has a lead member of staff who has specialist skills in developing projects, businesses and social enterprise related to one of the four areas of activity.
Some of our Lancashire success stories...
SELNET
SELNET (Social Enterprise Lancashire Network) has been able to secure funding to employ, as a seconded arrangement, with Lancashire County Developments Limited, a Procurement Officer whose job is to work with Voluntary, Community, Faith organisations and Social Enterprises to secure contacts with both the public and the commercial sector.
Changes in the way that the third-sector is funded means that organisations have to look for alternatives to grants. Trading is challenging but much more sustainable in the long run for the third-sector.
SELNET is a network of third-sector firms who, in one way or another, generate income from trading. Having a procurement specialist working for the sector is a massive step forward for the industry as a whole.
In order to help this sector to gain more public sector contracts, LCDL have employed a third-sector Procurement Officer, Gareth White.
What the third-sector Procurement Officer can offer:
- Help with looking for tender opportunities
- Step by step support with bids
- Advice on public sector procurement
- Help with contract presentations
- Advice on how to market yourself to the public sector
- Step by step support with post contract client liaison
- Advice on terms and conditions.