Annual Conference: Brian Carr
While the World Cafe discussion groups were taking place Brian Carr, chief executive of BVSC, to talk about the conference and the events of the day.
Brian said that, while this was a period of great challenge for the third sector - with savings to be found - it was a also a period of great opportunity. Both Jackie Mould of Be Birmingham and Cllr Sue Anderson had spoken in detail about how they wanted to see much more co-operation between the third and public sectors and Brian agreed.
He also said that there may be considerable unease within the sector but that was to be expected. The important thing was to take advantage of those opportunities. Brian explained that collaboration was required in order to reserve services. In particular, he pointed out that the sector should be geared up to make the most of this new political landscape.
Excellent points about the
Excellent points about the voluntary sector being founded on independence and experienced at dealing with economic down-times in the past. Also about the need to focus on collaboration for the benefit of service users and services and not just for the sake of winning contracts!
Interested to know more about how we can avoid the risk of "ad hoc" cuts to the sector.
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