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Community Development Team
Community and Cultural Services
Meet the Community Development Team, Community Development
Plan, Funding Information, Publications,
Refreshing the Sunderland Compact, Useful Links, Volunteering
What we Do?
- The Community Development Team supports 34 Community Associations in a variety of neighbourhood based facilities spread across the City. The team provides support and information on a range of issues including Company and Charity Law. Financial assistance is provided by the Community Development Service to the voluntary and community sector of Sunderland via Service Level Agreements and Play Grant Awards.
A list of Community Associations is available to download (
27.13KB)
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- The Community Development Team offer training to community groups to ensure all elements of management good practice are in place
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- The Community Development Team leads the work of the Sunderland Partnership in relation to Community Development, including the commissioning, completion and implementation of the City's Community Development Plan and management of the arrangements for the Community Development Strategy Group
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Refreshing the Sunderland Compact
You may be aware that the Sunderland Partnership produced a ‘Compact’ or ‘Code of Practice’ for working between the voluntary and community sector and the public and private sectors within Sunderland in 2000.
Throughout the process of developing the Sunderland Community Development Plan it has became clear that there is a need to refresh the Sunderland Compact and we need your involvement to make it happen
Since the launch of the work to refresh the Sunderland Partnership
Compact in November 2007, working groups have been meeting to develop the
Five Codes of Practice. Three of the codes; Involvement and Consultation,
Voluntary and Community Groups, Volunteering plus the main Compact text
are now available for consultation.
The remaining two codes of practice; Equalities Codes and Funding and
Procurement are still being developed and updates will be posted on  www.sunderlandcompact.org.uk
The consultation period is open until 19th September 2008 and we
welcome views from all organisations of the Sunderland Partnership.
For more information or to view the consultation documents log onto www.sunderlandcompact.org.uk
Sunderland Community Development Plan
he Sunderland Partnership, a partnership of public, private and voluntary and community sector groups operating in the City, is currently putting a Community Development Plan (“the Plan”) in place to assist in carrying forward its strategy for the City (the Sunderland Strategy).
The aim of the Plan is the development of a process of working collectively to bring about social change and justice for communities in
Sunderland.
More information on the Community Development
Plan and Draft Documents
Volunteering - Give a little time...
| ...It really makes a difference. People all over Sunderland volunteer
their time to help others in all sorts of ways, from coaching the junior
football team to helping out at school, even for two hours per week their
contribution is priceless.
Did You Know?
- 22 million adults in the UK do volunteer work
- Surprisingly, a government study revealed that the
volunteering rate among people aged 50-65 is low, and people in
younger age groups are more likely to do voluntary work
- Volunteering has been rated by many as the second greatest
source of personal enjoyment after dancing
- The economic value of formal volunteering has been estimated
at over £40 billion per year
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Those who are already volunteering, or who sign up with Sunderland Volunteer Centre can now pick up a special bag-for-life, an enamelled badge to wear with pride and a congratulatory certificate. The bags, badges and certificates can be collected from Libraries and Customer Service Centres across Sunderland.
So far the volunteering campaign has had a real impact, with the Volunteer Centre reporting the numbers of people who have volunteered to give a little of their time to help others up 100% on last year.
Volunteer awards can be collected now from the following locations:
- All 20 Sunderland Public Libraries across the city - 0191 514 1235
- Sunderland Civic Centre, Burdon Road - 0191 520 5555
- Sunderland Volunteer Centre, 4 Toward Road - 0191 567 8902
- Grangetown Customer Service Centre, 86 Ryhope Road - 0191 520 5555
- Sunderland Centre for Voluntary Services (CVS), Riverview House, West Wear Street
- 0191 565 1566
- Easington Lane Community Access Point, Brickgarth Houghton Le Spring
- 0191 526 1071
Find out more information about volunteering
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