Leading VCSE Engagement in Norfolk

Community Action Norfolk is the leading organisation for engagement with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector in Norfolk.

We work closely with VCSE organisations; Norfolk County Council and other partners to build the positive relationships needed to collaboratively develop strategy, policy and services.

For us, VCSE engagement is about gathering your ideas, issues and challenges and bringing them together with those of other VCSE organisations and stakeholders to create a positive dialogue, so we can collaboratively find ways to make Norfolk stronger and fairer.

Practical support for your organisation and community 

Practical support is one of the highest priorities for VCSE organisations. We aim to be the first port of call for those organisations needing support to achieve their goals from help finding funding and running an organisation, to engaging your community, and strategic planning.

Our approach has always been to provide a mixture of reactive support, where we respond to the needs you come to us with, and pro-active support, where we try and stimulate initiatives and activities within a community or organisation.

Working to ensure fair outcomes for all

It is a challenging time; reductions in public sector funding will continue to affect many with additional savings to be made. These savings risk hitting the most vulnerable in our communities the hardest or creating unfair discrepancies in the way people are treated.

The impacts of an ageing population and other changes in our communities are challenging the way services need to be provided. This creates the need to move towards more preventative and integrated services which offer the promise of being better for individuals and more cost effective for providers. However, across many themes and organisations in what is a large rural county, delivering on that promise is hard.

Our goal is to work to ensure fair outcomes for everyone regardless of where they live or who they are.