Buckinghamshire Council

Buckinghamshire Council works hard at the heart of the community to deliver essential services seven days a week, all year round.  They provide services to every community in Buckinghamshire from over 500 locations.

New Futures Buckinghamshire provided expert one-to-one support to voluntary and community sector organisations in Buckinghamshire, completely free of charge!

Designed to support the development needs and long-term sustainability of Buckinghamshire’s Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS), New Futures was commissioned and funded by Buckinghamshire Council.

The Benefits

VCS’s and other not-for-profit groups based in Buckinghamshire who needed support to sustain and develop their organisation, and met the scheme’s Eligibility Criteria, could receive:

• a free half-day’s support from Community Impact Bucks to help explore and confirm the organisation’s key areas of need; and
• up to nine days of free specialist support to help address these needs, improve what they already do, or even to take a new direction.

A significant number of organisations benefited and were very positive about the experience, which the two comments below demonstrate.

“We have been astounded with the package of support received, working alongside our mentor has been a huge learning curve and has really helped us think, plan and action exactly what we need to do over the next year. Thank you to New Futures Buckinghamshire for providing us with the opportunity!”
Rosie Axon, Managing Director
Chiltern Music Therapy

“New Futures is helping Chiltern Rangers to become established on a sound and sustainable basis in several key areas such as marketing, HR and monitoring and evaluation. This will enable us to grow as a business. Ultimately this will lead to us delivering our aims of environmental and social benefits to people, communities and the habitats and wildlife of the Chilterns. Thanks very much for supporting us.”
John Shaw, Managing Director
Chiltern Rangers

To find out how newfutures benefitted organisations, please download our Final Report.