Halton & St Helens Voluntary and Community Action

Halton & St Helens VCA is an organisation that provides advice, information and development support services to new and existing voluntary, community, not-for-profit and faith organisations and volunteers in the Boroughs of St Helens and Halton.

Halton & St Helens VCA undertakes the following 5 core functions of:

Development – Identifying local need, working with others to develop appropriate action and working strategically to benefit the local voluntary and community sector.

Liaison – Helping to maintain links with a wide range of voluntary and community organisations and promoting cross sector relationships.

Representation – Enabling the local voluntary and community sector to present its views to statutory and public sector bodies through consultation, networking, fora, seminars and workshops etc.

Services – Funding information and advice, training, legal, financial, management and constitutional advice and information, meeting space, newsletters and mailings.

Strategic Partnership – Working with the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP), helping to develop the voluntary sector compact, participating in neighborhood regeneration and working with other statutory bodies at a strategic level.