AVA Annual Report 2022
Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action Annual Report 2022. Your Third Sector Interface for Aberdeenshire.
Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action Annual Report 2022. Your Third Sector Interface for Aberdeenshire.
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REPORT<br />
... DANIEL SHAW, CEO<br />
<strong>2022</strong> was a year that started and ended in the same way at<br />
<strong>AVA</strong>; working hard to process funding applications that would<br />
support groups to do some vital work across Aberdeenshire. In<br />
the course of 12 months, <strong>AVA</strong> distributed over £1.5m of funding to<br />
support different outcomes; but more of that later!<br />
As Aberdeenshire’s Third Sector Interface, our core purpose is to<br />
support, connect, represent and promote third sector organisations,<br />
and we have not rested on our laurels. After changing our<br />
operating model in the previous year so that we could deliver more<br />
services and outcomes for third sector organisations, this year has<br />
seen us go a step further by expanding our Development team<br />
and welcoming 3 new positions. Each position has clear outcomes<br />
and you can find out more about these in the update from Keith<br />
Anderson, our Head of Development, in this report.<br />
We’ve also worked hard on how we manage our intelligence relating<br />
to Aberdeenshire’s third sector, and have been able to expand<br />
our support team to enable more efficient use of our data systems<br />
to record activity, and to facilitate faster processing of funding<br />
applications through automation and process improvement.<br />
<strong>AVA</strong> continues to run a number of discreet projects, with Magpie,<br />
our social enterprise project in Banchory, being our longest held<br />
project. It has undergone a significant transformation regarding its<br />
process and procedures over the last year, and we have invested<br />
in staff and volunteer training to better support the outcomes that<br />
Magpie continues to deliver; these being our contribution to the<br />
vital net zero agenda, whilst supporting families in crisis through<br />
social donation of critical household goods.<br />
We are currently running three other projects which are at varying<br />
stages of progress:<br />
Community Volunteering Enterprise is funded by the Young Person’s<br />
Guarantee and entered its second year of delivery. It supports<br />
young people aged 16-25 to gain an SQA approved qualification<br />
in Employability Skills, and encourages them to volunteer their<br />
services with a third sector organisation to gain valuable skills, akin<br />
to being the first line of their CV. A third year is a very real prospect<br />
due to its success so far.<br />
6 // <strong>AVA</strong><br />
ANNUAL REPORT <strong>2022</strong>
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