Team Staffordshire is a voluntary sector led partnership, co-operating to increase investment into Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent; and to influence public policy for the benefit of local communities. Work focuses on but is not limited to developing, co-designing and delivering contracts on the following:
Employability and Skills
Social Inclusion
Children, Young People and Families
Physical Wellbeing
Social Care and Older People
Adults with multiple and complex needs
Mental Health
Sustainability and Environment
Team Staffordshire is made up of four local umbrella bodies:
Staffordshire Council of Voluntary Youth Services (SCVYS)
Support Staffordshire as the current VCSE Strategic Partners to Staffordshire County Council
Together Active, as the county-sports partnership
VAST as the recognised VCSE infrastructure body for Stoke-on-Trent
Plus up to five bi-annually elected representatives of local VCSE providers. Elected in 2019 they are currently:
5. MHA Communities
6. East Staffordshire Family Support
7. Alice Charity
8. Citizens Advice Staffordshire Southwest
9. Position vacant
10. The Community Foundation for Staffordshire or another representative of local funders
11. Two representatives of local District/Borough councils, as chosen by those councils; currently South Staffordshire Council and Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
12. A lead from each recognised Team Staffordshire Delivery Partnership; currently Business Enterprise Support (BES) who lead BBO South Staffs and Stafford
