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Voluntary Sector North West
St. Thomas Centre
Manchester
M12 6FZ
Tel: 0161 276 9300
Fax: 0161 276 9301
Email: info@vsnw.org.uk
North West Environment Link
North West Environment Link (NWEL) is a partnership of environmental voluntary organisations representing over 1 million people in the North West.
Latest news from NWEL:
► Regional Strategy (RS2010) consultation response (April 2009)
NWEL's objectives are:
- To ensure that environmental issues are taken seriously in regional decision making
- To provide a collective, strategic environmental perspective on major regional policy initiatives, programmes and projects
- To raise awareness of environmental issues among key regional decision makers
- To enable environmental Non-Governmental Organisations to develop consensus on major regional environmental issues.
► Download the NWEL constitution
► Read the NWEL bulletin
► Access information about NWEL meetings
And includes, as associate members, the following key agencies:
The Environment Agency
Natural England
English Heritage
ENCAMS (Keep Britain Tidy)
- Engage volunteers
- Run campaigns
- Provide life long learning activities and educational programmes
- Provide training to long term unemployed
- Support local communities in rural and urban areas
- Employ a significant number of people in the environmental sector
- Own and manage some of the finest land for biodiversity, heritage, landscape and community engagement.
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Featured Event
The Health White Paper Consultation
CONSULTATION FULLY BOOKED
The White Paper on Health has the potential to create one of the biggest changes to the structure and function of the NHS since its creation in 1948. Within the White Paper there are 5 consultations which are all open until early October. Although the ‘what’ in the White Paper has largely been decided, the ‘how’ is very much still being shaped.
Latest News
New apprenticeships for VCS organisations
Skills-Third Sector has carried out an extensive consultation with a wide range of organisations to determine the needs of the voluntary and community sector around apprenticeships, and will be developing new apprenticeship frameworks as a result.
Influencing the Spending Review - update
Latest updates for the departmental structural reform plans available
Future North West consultation now open
A document outlining the agreed strategic priorities of the North West based on the Regional Strategy consultation work over the last two years is now open for consultation until 8 October 2010.
Events & Trainings
VSNW’s list of events & training opportunities for VCS groups in the North West
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport have proposed a potential £750m reduction in Big Lottery Funding to VCS groups over the next five years
