Community Development Team
City Services
Meet the Community Development Team, Community Development
Plan, Funding Information, Publications,
The Sunderland Compact, Useful Links, Volunteering
What we Do?
- The Community Development Team supports 32 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 (
25 KB) is available to download.
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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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The Community Development Team is
primarily based at Jack Crawford House however there are outreach
centres including Bunny
Hill
Centre, Hetton Centre,
Sandhill Centre
and Washington
Millennium Centre.
The Sunderland Compact
For more information on the Sunderland Compact log onto  www.sunderlandcompact.org.uk
Sunderland Community Development Plan
The 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
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 526 107
The New 'Volunteering
for Sunderland Toolkit' (
1.34MB) was launched on March 27th 2009. It contains all the
information your organisation will need to know about Volunteering
in Sunderland.
Access
to customisable appendices from the Volunteering for
Sunderland Toolkit.
List of Training and Volunteering Events in
2009 ( 113.27KB)
Find out more information about volunteering
It's your Sunderland......
Sunderland City Council has produced a directory of information on the
different opportunities for local people to get involved and influence
decisions in Sunderland
Visit the page
containing the directory.
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