Devon Consortium

  

What is ChangeUp?

ChangeUp arose from the 2002 Treasury Cross-Cutting Review of the voluntary and community sector's role in public service delivery. This review highlighted the need for a strategy to ensure "a sustainable baseline of infrastructure support at local level, regionally and nationally". Launched in June 2004, ChangeUp is a national, 10 year programme to strengthen and support the assistance available to voluntary and community organisations.

Voluntary and community organisations receive support through national and regional infrastructure organisations and the ChangeUp programme is about building the capacity of infrastructure organisations to support them. The ChangeUp programme was developed in partnership with the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) and is managed by Capacitybuilders , an agency at arms length from government and led by a board of sector experts.

  

What is the Devon Consortium?

The Devon Consortium is a strategic management group of infrstructure organisations. They, together have developed an Infrastructure Development Plan which will help to deliver on achieving the national ChangeUp objectives of modernisation, embedding quality and improving support.

Current membership of the consortium is:

• Age Concern Devon
• Community Council of Devon
• COSMIC
• Devon Association of Volunteer Centres
• Devon Community Foundation
• Devon Conservation Forum
• Devon Faiths Forum
• Devon Racial Equality Council
• Devon Towns Forum
• East Devon CVS
• Exeter Community Initiatives
• Exeter CVS
• Fata He
• Involve (Mid Devon CVS)
• Living Options Devon
• North Devon Voluntary Services
• South Hams CVS
• Teignbridge CVS
• Torridge CVS
• Voluntary Youth Services Devon
• West Devon CVS

More information about the Devon Consortium is available on their website at www.devonconsortium.net