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The London Voluntary Sector Training Consortium
The London Voluntary Sector Training Consortium (LVSTC) was
set up by a consortium of voluntary sector training providers
in 1989.
“Our goal is to be the lead organisation in London for
the strategic development of effective training in the
voluntary and community sector to meet the needs of socially
excluded groups.”
To this end, LVSTC offers technical assistance to providers in the voluntary and community sector to:
help ensure that more potential trainees from all
London Boroughs have information about and access to
voluntary/community sector provision
offer comprehensive technical support services to
voluntary sector providers including telephone advice,
referral systems, information bulletins, training for groups
on funding applications, match-funding, quality controls,
monitoring systems, auditing procedures, trans-national
partners, claim forms
undertake outreach work to help groups assemble
packaged bids to ensure integrated projects and strategic
local economic development
work for the improvement of the European national and
regional administrative systems for ESF / ERDF so that
voluntary/community groups are not jeopardised by slack
decision-making and late payments
inform voluntary and community sector providers
running EU-funded projects on emerging European trends in
vocational training, financial / business planning so that
they can continue to thrive in the new EU funding regime
emerging from the Agenda 2000 reform
assist voluntary/community sector providers in
networking and developing cross-sectoral partnerships at
local, regional, national and European levels.
LVSTC has been a key partner in two of the CVS Partnerships projects; the Co-Financing Community Advisory Group and Underpinning Community Learning. The CVS Partnership participate in the pan-London ESF Capacity Building Network facilitated by LVSTC. The CVS Partnership recognises that LVSTC is the pan-London specialist organisation providing advice and guidance on ESF/ERDF funding and we hope to continue to develop our working relationship where our respective roles and areas of expertise are strengthened through a strong collaborative partnership.
For more information about The London Voluntary Sector Consortium visit: www.lvstc.org.uk
