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In the UK the work of many voluntary and community organisations is brought together on a locality basis under the umbrella of a Council for Voluntary Services (CVS). So a CVS seeks to respond to the collective needs of the many voluntary groups in a geographical area (often roughly coterminous with a local authority) and to act as a single voice for them, especially in discussions with statutory bodies. This chapter gives an account of some work to shape a forward plan that was conducted with a specific CVS—we shall call it ‘Caldburn CVS’ to preserve its anonymity—located in North-West England. The development of the plan revealed some dysfunctional characteristics of the CVS operation, and these were addressed in a supplementary study that is also reported here.
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Marlow, A., Bryant, J. (2004). Looking Forward with a Council for Voluntary Service. In: Midgley, G., Ochoa-Arias, A. (eds) Community Operational Research. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8911-6_7
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