Success for the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership

We are pleased to announce that we have received new funding for two projects which will add to the core work of the Centre. Both projects will commence in the autumn of 2016.

Investigating the contribution of the voluntary sector to mental health crisis care in England

In collaboration with the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC), and Suresearch, we have won an award from the National Institute for Health Research to investigate the role of the voluntary sector in mental health crisis care in England. Led by Dr Karen Newbigging, this study will provide a national overview of the range of crisis support offered by the voluntary sector; explore stakeholder views of the relative strengths and weaknesses of different types of voluntary sector crisis services and make recommendations as to what needs to happen for the NHS and Local Authorities to improve how they work with voluntary sector crisis services to ensure that people in a mental health crisis can get the right help at the right time.

Third Europe: Fostering a new European profession – the Entrepreneurial Third Sector Leader

CVSL has received a teaching grant (£43,800) from the European Commission (Erasmus+) for a project entitled ‘Third Europe: Fostering a new European profession – the Entrepreneurial Third Sector Leader’. Led by James Rees, CVSL is a ‘Knowledge Partner’ in this multi-partner European network project. The project will commence on 1 October 2016. The project is focused on helping to facilitate the transformation from management to leadership within the third sector across Europe, in the conviction that this transformation is key to addressing emerging future opportunities for the Third Sector at a strategic level. The project aims to help Third Sector management build capacity to detect, address and exploit emerging opportunities for Third Sector organisations, through strong strategic leadership. As the project is expected to contribute considerably to the European knowledge base in the Third Sector, and impact on policy and research in the field of Third Sector innovation it also focuses on how to integrate capacity building in existing or further elaborated training provisions.