2009 AWARD WINNERS

Local Compact of the Year

• Winner: The Compact Plus for Solihull 2008 - 2013

This Local Compact has made rapid progress in a short time. In 2008/09, Solihull published its Compact Plus and its launch event was attended by over 100 partner organisations from across the public, private and third sectors. Promotion and awareness raising has led to improved engagement between the third sector and statutory partners, accompanied by improved trust and confidence between the partners.

Finalists in this category awarded Compact Excellence Awards:

• East Sussex Compact
• Merton Compact
• The Hackney Compact
• A Local Compact for Warrington
• Wolverhampton Compact

Highly Commended Certificates awarded to:

• Redcar and Cleveland Compact
• North & North East Lincolnshire Joint Compact
• Sutton Compact

The Commissioner’s Award

• Winner: One Hull LSP

Awarded in recognition of One Hull LSP’s commitment to developing its Local Compact as a framework for good practice across all partner agencies in the private, public and voluntary and community sectors. In particular, the involvement of the private sector impressed the judges. Their work has included: two high-profile multi-agency events around commissioning; the development and implementation of a Compact Conciliation and Learning Code; and initiating new Codes around Community Assets, Social Enterprise and Commissioning to reflect the changing nature of the relationship between the voluntary and community sector and its partners.

Compact Champion of the Year

• Winner: Jaqui Ball (Arun District Council)

Jaqui has enthusiastically worked to raise the profile and credibility of the West Sussex Compact across organisations and across sectors in the county. She has been Chair of the West Sussex Compact Implementation Group for over three years and has willingly taken on this role in addition to her work as a senior executive in local government. She has been instrumental in encouraging engagement between the sectors and is the statutory sector lead for NI7. Jaqui is described by her colleagues as an “inspiring speaker” and has done much to improve awareness, understanding and credibility amongst the West Sussex VCS and Statutory Sector of Compact principles and ways of working.

Finalists in this category awarded Compact Excellence Awards:

• Sam Axtell (Wolverhampton City Council)
• Soo Nevison (Voluntary Action Calderdale)
• Phil Spence (Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council)

Compact Award for Innovation

• Winner: West Sussex Compact

The Judges were impressed with consistency of this entry and how it used the West Sussex Compact to underpin the Local Area Agreement and the National Indicator 7 target (“environment for a thriving third sector”). Through the creation of a simple Influence and Engagement Evaluation Toolkit, it has been able to undertake evaluations in key areas such as inter-agency partnerships, working together locally, funding and procurement, performance management and sustainability.

Finalist in this category awarded a Compact Excellence Award:

• Compact for Hull

Highly Commended Certificate awarded to:

• Bolsover Compact Development Group

Compact Award for Excellence at a National Level

• Winner: Defra Third Sector Team

In November 2008, Defra published its third sector strategy, which set out an ambitious programme of action to improve the way it works in partnership with the third sector. Key activities included: establishing a Third Sector Advisory Board and a Social Enterprise Partnership; establishing the Third Sector Ministerial Task Force on Climate Change, the Environment and sustainable Development; and launching a blog to enable the public to monitor and comment on progress. http://nlogs.defra.gov.uk/3rd-sector