Strategic Partnership

Infrastructure Strategic Partnership

The role of the Infrastructure Strategic Partnership is to enable Third Sector engagement in planning, policy development, implementation, and service delivery. The partnership will address issues and needs with policy makers funding providers and commissioners.

 

Vision

Third Sector and Public Sector partners aim to support a healthy effective, thriving and sustainable Third Sector in the North East region. Partners will work together to reflect the needs of both sectors in line with the public service agreement to build more cohesive, empowered and active communities.

 

Aims

  • To encourage a shared understanding of each other's roles in delivering the vision
  • To discuss and influence a broad policy agenda, debate reports, papers, needs analysis for impact at a regional level
  • To influence the development of regional policy and distribution of resources
  • To make links between third sector, public sector and funding providers to encourage sustainability for work identified by the consortia in the region and the North East Meta Plan.
  • To identify specialist regional infrastructure needs across the third sector and identify new partnerships and projects.
  • To effectively allocate infrastructure resources for regional infrastructure organisations.
  • To bring together organisations working across the region often in a specific field of work and with a particular focus and to share models of good practice
  • To develop cohesion and co-ordination in the region for infrastructure and Third Sector needs
  • To create an equality of opportunity for Third Sector to deliver services
  • To rationalise the information and support offered to the Third Sector eg. procurement
  • To promote the equalities agenda and work towards mainstreaming equality and diversity across all the sectors.

 

Membership

A flexible membership will include experts and advocates of the chosen themes of the meetings which will be invited to the partnership on an ad hoc basis. A chair and vice chair will be voted from the core group.

A core group will consist of the following organisations:

Government Office North East, ONE North East, Association of North East Councils, North East Assembly, LSP Managers Forum, Learning & Skills Council, Business Link NE, Strategic Health Authority, Job Centre Plus, National Offender Management Service, VONNE (Voluntary Organisations Network North East), BECON (Black and Ethnic Communities Organisation Network), NESEP (North East Social Enterprise Partnership), FINE (Funding Information North East), Funders Forum, VCS Equalities Coalition, Northumberland Consortium, Tyne & Wear Consortium, County Durham Consortium, Tees Valley Consortium, and the Regional Infrastructure Consortium.

 

 

Documents

Terms of Reference (PDF 95kB)

 

Meeting Minutes

4 November 2008 (PDF  63kB)

23 September 2008 (PDF 32kB)

27 June 2008 (PDF 94kB)

4 April 2008 (PDF 87kB)

14 November 2007 (PDF 94kB)