About MVCAP
MVCAP is a charity working to take community aspirations and turn them into reality. Membership is open to everybody living and working in the Malmesbury Community Area.
While we're an independent charity we have a strong, formally agreed working relationship with Wiltshire Council's Malmesbury Area Board who provide much of our core funding. We're also a member of the Wiltshire Forum of Community Area Partnerships (WfCAP).
MVCAP is run by a Management Committee of volunteers supported by an Administrator and a Project Officer. The work of the Management Committee is overseen by our trustees who are also volunteers. Projects are run by our 'Project Groups', sub-groups set up to run individual schemes or to tackle particular issues. Project groups generally exist to address concerns and needs identified in the Malmesbury and the Villages Community Plan 2009-2013 - the product of an area wide MVCAP survey of public attitudes - or in the subsequent Joint Strategic Assessment reviews led by Wiltshire Council. If your group exists to address these issues or to be of general benefit to the local community MVCAP can help you to achieve your goals.
The Malmesbury Community Area covers the parishes of Ashton Keynes, Brinkworth, Brokenborough, Charlton, Crudwell, Dauntsey, Easton Grey, Great Somerford, Hankerton, Lea & Cleverton, Leigh, Little Somerford, Luckington & Alderton, Malmesbury, Minety, Norton & Foxley, Oaksey, Sherston, Sopworth and Malmesbury St Paul Without. If you live or work in the area you are already automatically a member of MVCAP. Why not contact us and get involved?
History
MVCAP was founded in 2004 as Malmesbury and the Villages Community Area Partnership to engage with local people and find out what they wanted to see change, happen, or stay the same in their community over the next 15 years. In May 2005 MVCAP published the first Community Plan which was distributed throughout the area. We continue to develop the Community Plan with work on the next edition starting in 2013.
So what do we actually do? We undertake a wide range of work in the community including: consultations; writing the local Community Plan which is used to inform decision making in the area by bodies such as the Malmesbury Area Board; collaborating with Wiltshire Council and local councils to deliver schemes to benefit our community; supporting voluntary and community groups and promoting volunteering; setting up new community groups; giving advice about fundraising, publicity, and use of new media; and providing practical services in support of Wiltshire Council initiatives.
Below is a selection of just some of our work, some current, some completed in the last few years. This should give you an idea of the range and scale of work that we tackle:
Management
MVCAP is lead by a steering group which consists of the elected officers (Chair, Treasurer, plus 2 Vice-Chairs) plus other volunteers who may also be leaders of MVCAP sub-groups or have a particular area of interest.
Steering Group:
Value for money
We receive core funding for our work from Wiltshire Council through their local area board. We believe that it is important that we continually try to ensure best value for the work that we do and we have been introducing reporting procedures to improve the evaluation of Value-for-Money (VFM).
In 2013 we introduced measurement of our activities to assess how much value is generated in a working year and to help ensure that we continue to provide VFM with the work that we do. Our measurements use the advice from Volunteering England on how to value volunteer time (we use the ONS Mean for our Parliamentary Constituency as the base rate with a premium on top for volunteers providing specialist skills). Our overall measurements use the Institute of Volunteering Research Volunteer Investment and Value Audit (VIVA) ratio as well as a bespoke Value Added ratio to assess additional tangible benefits arising from our work. The final figure is an indicator of how much value is generated per £1 of expenditure.
VFM Measurement Results:
2013-14 VIVA Ratio: 11.33 Value Added Ratio: 2.52 Combined VFM Ratio: 13.86
2012-13 VIVA Ratio: 5.60 Value Added Ratio: 1.70 Combined VFM Ratio: 7.30
While we're an independent charity we have a strong, formally agreed working relationship with Wiltshire Council's Malmesbury Area Board who provide much of our core funding. We're also a member of the Wiltshire Forum of Community Area Partnerships (WfCAP).
MVCAP is run by a Management Committee of volunteers supported by an Administrator and a Project Officer. The work of the Management Committee is overseen by our trustees who are also volunteers. Projects are run by our 'Project Groups', sub-groups set up to run individual schemes or to tackle particular issues. Project groups generally exist to address concerns and needs identified in the Malmesbury and the Villages Community Plan 2009-2013 - the product of an area wide MVCAP survey of public attitudes - or in the subsequent Joint Strategic Assessment reviews led by Wiltshire Council. If your group exists to address these issues or to be of general benefit to the local community MVCAP can help you to achieve your goals.
The Malmesbury Community Area covers the parishes of Ashton Keynes, Brinkworth, Brokenborough, Charlton, Crudwell, Dauntsey, Easton Grey, Great Somerford, Hankerton, Lea & Cleverton, Leigh, Little Somerford, Luckington & Alderton, Malmesbury, Minety, Norton & Foxley, Oaksey, Sherston, Sopworth and Malmesbury St Paul Without. If you live or work in the area you are already automatically a member of MVCAP. Why not contact us and get involved?
History
MVCAP was founded in 2004 as Malmesbury and the Villages Community Area Partnership to engage with local people and find out what they wanted to see change, happen, or stay the same in their community over the next 15 years. In May 2005 MVCAP published the first Community Plan which was distributed throughout the area. We continue to develop the Community Plan with work on the next edition starting in 2013.
So what do we actually do? We undertake a wide range of work in the community including: consultations; writing the local Community Plan which is used to inform decision making in the area by bodies such as the Malmesbury Area Board; collaborating with Wiltshire Council and local councils to deliver schemes to benefit our community; supporting voluntary and community groups and promoting volunteering; setting up new community groups; giving advice about fundraising, publicity, and use of new media; and providing practical services in support of Wiltshire Council initiatives.
Below is a selection of just some of our work, some current, some completed in the last few years. This should give you an idea of the range and scale of work that we tackle:
- Coordinating efforts to convert streetlights to part-night operation, working in partnership with Wiltshire Council engineers, the Area Board, and local councils.
- Supporting Malmesbury Town Council's survey of opinions about traffic calming measures in Malmesbury and writing a report for the council analysing the results.
- Raising issues with Malmesbury Area Board.
- Consulting with the community and publishing the Community Plan 2009-2013.
- Working on a pilot scheme to have battery recycling points in villages.
- Providing support for banking of funds provided through the Wiltshire Council small grants scheme.
- Joint hosting with Wiltshire Council to run an event to discuss the future provision of services and local priorities for the coming years.
- Setting up a charity to open and run community hub and youth cafe services in the area (Malmesbury Area Community Hub).
- Working with Wiltshire Council on the use of social networking.
- Running information and consultation stalls at events.
- Monitoring rural broadband provision and promoting initiatives to address problems.
- Adopting as a sub-group a group of volunteers keen to set up signed walking trails in the area. This is now the Malmesbury Area Pathfinders group which has published a guidebook for walks taking in all the bridges in Malmesbury, and is developing a trail running from Malmesbury to Luckington with several smaller circular walks.
- Hosting a public event to discuss local transport issues.
- Finding volunteers for local groups and events.
- Working with local councils to identify ways to save money on replenishing bark used on play areas.
- Setting up Transition Malmesbury, a group dedicated to making our community more resilient to the negative effects of events in the wider world, such as rising energy prices, climate change, and economic shocks.
- Running quarterly Community Safety forums where the public and the Police can meet and discuss local policing priorities.
- Supported the start of the Sherston Old School project through providing initial funding to get the project off the ground.
- Advising local community groups about how to raise their profile.
- Publishing our quarterly newsletter the "MVCAP Times" which gives information about our activities and helps publicise the work of other local groups.
- Giving advice and pilot funding for a scheme to run Xmas trips from villages to major shopping destinations.n
- Starting a pilot transport scheme to take people from villages to the cinema at Malmesbury Town Hall.
- Helping community groups set up websites at no cost
Management
MVCAP is lead by a steering group which consists of the elected officers (Chair, Treasurer, plus 2 Vice-Chairs) plus other volunteers who may also be leaders of MVCAP sub-groups or have a particular area of interest.
Steering Group:
- Chair: Sid Jevons
- Treasurer: Pete Gilchriest
- Vice Chair: Martin Rea
- Member: Julie Exton
- Member: Dawn Wilson - WfCAP Representative
Value for money
We receive core funding for our work from Wiltshire Council through their local area board. We believe that it is important that we continually try to ensure best value for the work that we do and we have been introducing reporting procedures to improve the evaluation of Value-for-Money (VFM).
In 2013 we introduced measurement of our activities to assess how much value is generated in a working year and to help ensure that we continue to provide VFM with the work that we do. Our measurements use the advice from Volunteering England on how to value volunteer time (we use the ONS Mean for our Parliamentary Constituency as the base rate with a premium on top for volunteers providing specialist skills). Our overall measurements use the Institute of Volunteering Research Volunteer Investment and Value Audit (VIVA) ratio as well as a bespoke Value Added ratio to assess additional tangible benefits arising from our work. The final figure is an indicator of how much value is generated per £1 of expenditure.
VFM Measurement Results:
2013-14 VIVA Ratio: 11.33 Value Added Ratio: 2.52 Combined VFM Ratio: 13.86
2012-13 VIVA Ratio: 5.60 Value Added Ratio: 1.70 Combined VFM Ratio: 7.30