Reaching out to local communities
Resources and Downloads
- User and Community Co-Production of Services - A Position Paper by Cambridgeshire ACRE and CPALC
- Rural Issue Paper 5 - Rural Voice and Community Engagement
- Rural Issue Paper 4 - Rural Poverty and Deprivation
- Rural Issue Paper 3 - Rural Economy and Skills
- Rural Issue Paper 2 - Community Buildings
- Rural Issue Paper 1 - Affordable Housing
- Cambridgeshire Together Rural Strategy - Countywide Consultation Summary Report
- South Cambridgeshire Rural Strategy Workshop Report
- Huntingdonshire Rural Strategy Workshop Report
- Fenland Rural Strategy Workshop Report
- East Cambridgeshire Rural Strategy Workshop Report
- Cambridgeshire Together Rural Strategy - Summary of Evidence
- Cambridgeshire Together Rural Strategy - Evidence Base
Achieving Strategic Influence
Working in Partnership
Cambridgeshire ACRE rarely works alone. Our services are developed in partnership with government agencies, local authorities, education providers, health agencies and voluntary organisations.
Through our research and development activity we collect information and data to ensure that the services we develop are those that the community around us needs.
We have considerable experience of facilitating and administering partnerships have had some significant successes in working this way. All our staff are trained in partnership working to ensure they have the knowledge, skills and tools to set up, develop and maintain successful partnerships and to support positive influencing behaviours.
Our staff sit on partnerships across the county, including the Local Area Agreement Board for Cambridgeshire (Cambridgeshire Together) and the District-based Local Strategic Partnerships, where they have a voice and provide representation for our membership.
Cambridgeshire Together
Cambridgeshire Together is a group of key local organisations that are working in partnership to improve the quality of life for those who live, learn, work and travel in Cambridgeshire. The Cambridgeshire Together Board is led by local authority members and senior decision-makers from the County Council and five District Councils, the police, health, business representatives and the voluntary and community sector.
Cambridgeshire Vision
Cambridgeshire Together has assembled its ambitions and priorities in the Vision, the Sustainable Community Strategy. The Vision tells the 'story of place' of how the partnership will meet the challenges of a changing county from 2007 - 2021. The Vision priorities were chosen with local needs in mind. They reflect the local priorities of the sustainable community strategies of the county's five districts - Cambridge City, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire and South Cambridgeshire. The priorities were chosen after consultation with residents.
Cambridgeshire Local Area Agreement
The Vision has its own three year delivery plan called the Local Area Agreement (LAA). This is an agreement between Cambridgeshire Together and central governement with set targets which run until 2011. All Cambridgeshire Together's partners are working to meet these targets.
Local Strategic Partnerships
Local Strategic Partnerships or LSPs are local-level partnerships of public, private and voluntary organisations working together to improve lives in their local area. Each District has its own LSP.
We are actively involved in the East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire and South Cambridgeshire LSPs providing representation and managing community led planning at both a strategic and operational level.