Taking positive steps towards a better community
	Networking & Capacity Building Networking is fundamental to the existence of PACE. We cannot work and exist in a vacuum. Therefore, by interacting with other organisations, be they voluntary, community or business-related, we can seek mutual support in information building and customer referrals. It also helps us to keep up-to-date with what is happening in the local community. These are some of the organisations that we network with: Accor – Tax credit/voucher organisation for childcare Arrest Referral unit – Customer referrals to enQuire Booth Wood Primary School – Childcare Provision Building Relationships, Loughborough – Project Developer sits on the Board Busy Bee's – Tax credit/voucher organisation for childcare Carpenter’s Arms - Customer referrals to enQuire Charnwood Arts – Mutual exchange of info. to establish ‘artsburst’ and a youth cafe Charnwood Borough Council, Environmental Health Dpt. – Conference Centre Charnwood CVS – Have taken on volunteers for childcare through this service Charnwood Shelter - Customer referrals to enQuire / Hiring of our facilities for meetings Children’s Information Service – Info. for training courses and funding for childcare Citizen’s Advice Bureau – Referrals from enQuire for debt cases involving bankruptcy Community Cohesion (Pathfinder) – Funding for enQuire Community Legal Services – Quality Mark for enQuire Community Transport – Service for childcare / We are helping towards a new minibus Gain – Information and Training regarding job-related information, advice and guidance Genesis Trust, Alfreton – funding information Jobcentre Plus – Referrals to our childcare service and enQuire John Storer House CVS – Advertising ourselves / research information / Childcare Leicester Money Advice – Project managing the DTI funding for the enQuire project. Leicestershire Early Years – Registering for Childcare / Sustainability funding for childcare Loughborough Church of England Primary School – Childcare Provision Loughborough University – Student support work Loughborough University RAG – Funding for Camp Supreme Mountfields Lodge Primary School – Childcare Provision New Springs – Room hire, funding Ofsted – Registration body for childcare providers, help with police checks for staff etc Reed Construction – Funding for enQuire Rendell Primary School – Childcare Provision Robert Bakewell Primary School – Childcare Provision Severn Trent Trust Fund – Funding for enQuire Social Care Services – Providing free places on Camp Supreme Stonebow Primary School – Childcare Provision White House Day Nursery, Shepshed – Childcare Policies & Procedures, NOF info. WREN – Funding for building work and community building Youth Offending Team – Information sharing, conference facility usage. Capacity building is expanding our own project and/or assisting and empowering other organisations to expand theirs. This is a part of networking and an area that we hope to develop in the future. ‘Groundwork’ is the name we have given to capacity build our own project and ‘Community Matters’ is the name we have given to helping others expand their own projects. © PACE 2010