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Projects
At any one time COVER is involved in several projects, whether European, national or regional, long or short term. This section of the website provides details about current projects:
AIMER, a European cross-border project focussing on the integration of migrant workers
Team East for Skills, a partnership project providing volunteering opportunities for unemployed people, linked to the 2012 Olympics
Department of Health project, around communication with the third sector
You can find out about our current Skills related projects by following this link.
Project proposals
We are open to suggestions about partnerships for projects and tenders at the regional, national and European level. We are particularly interested in projects working across sectors, to engage the third sector with public and private initiatives. Previous projects we have worked on cover a wide variety of topics including health and social care, social integration and cohesion, economic development and support, and skills and workforce development.
We are able to provide services from within our excellent administration team, as well as using the expertise of our in-house project manager, including:
- Project management
- Financial management and reporting
- Administration and support services, including creation and maintenance of contact databases
- Policy and research contributions
- Dissemination of information to the wider sector, and partnerships with others in the sector to achieve specific outcomes
We have a proven track record of delivering projects on time, on budget, and against identified outcomes. As a regional organisation we are able to operate at an appropriate scale on large and multi-partner projects. We are able to use our extensive networks to bring together key players and facilitate wider sector engagement.
Current projects
Improving the skills of the Third Sector young people's workforce The project aims to build third sector capacity by providing 25,000 training opportunities for volunteers and paid staff covering five priority training areas (see below). This includes building both the capacity of staff and volunteers to meet young people's needs and of organisations to develop their workforce.
The project will be:
- Third sector owned and led;
- Integrated across local, regional and national training providers;
- Flexible in terms of delivery meet the needs of all potential learners;
- Based on a shared understanding of quality and outcomes to ensure consistency and quality;
- Sustainable to ensure coordination can be maintained beyond the funding period
The consortium is led by the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS). NCVYS is the leading representative body for voluntary and community youth organisations working with young people in England. NCVYS works through its membership of over 170 networks of voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises. for more information contact Jan Cunningham.
