Derbyshire Mental Health Forum set to join with
Erewash Voluntary Action
25 September 2019
We are very pleased to announce that Derbyshire Mental Health Forum is now in an advanced stage in the
process to becoming part of Erewash
Voluntary Action CVS.
Derbyshire Mental
Health Forum has delivered the Voluntary Sector Liaison Service between
commissioners, other statutory stakeholders and the mental health voluntary
sector across Southern Derbyshire for over eighteen years. They represent the
sector, support organisations to develop and bring together voluntary and
statutory providers to jointly plan and develop services that meet the needs of
people who have mental health problems.
Erewash Voluntary
Action is a Charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee created in
1998. They offer traditional
CVS/Volunteer Centre functions. For the last four years they have delivered the
Erewash Mental Health Partnership working very closely with Derbyshire Mental Health
Forum. They offer a wide range of services/projects including Social
Connectedness, helping to reduce loneliness and isolation in the Erewash
Area. They work closely with Derbyshire-wide
organisations to ensure that wider knowledge is gained and are a member of the
Future in Mind board for Derby and Derbyshire.
The two organisations have worked together previously on the
Erewash Mental Health partnership, representing the sector at 3D and in the STP
mental health work streams.
In challenging times for infrastructure services, it has
become obvious that the two organisations share an ethos and ideal around the
way people with mental health problems deserve to be treated in society and the
type of support organisations need in order to be able to deliver this
effectively.
Together, both organisations are now going through the due
diligence process, and with the approval of both Boards of Trustees, plan to
merge in November this year, with Erewash Voluntary Action becoming the
managing organisation for the Forum.
For their customers, Derbyshire Mental Health Forum will
function as before, with the same well-known branding and outward facing
presence that we currently all recognise. In particular, Forum meetings, Forum
News and the representation work within the mental health STP for Joined Up
Care Derbyshire will continue. However, by becoming part of Erewash Voluntary
Action, both organisations become stronger together in terms of
cost-effectiveness and the ability to deliver in the increasingly more
challenging market place of infrastructure provision.
The merger will not only cement the future of Derbyshire
Mental Health Forum, but will ensure that they are able to grow and respond to
opportunities to deliver more support to the mental health voluntary sector
within the wider scope of local infrastructure provision.
This is a really exciting development for both
organisations.
If you have any questions, please contact Angela Kerry at
Derbyshire Mental Health Forum on 01773 599995 or email: angela.kerry@dmhf.org.uk or Stella
Scott at Erewash Voluntary Action on 0115 946 6740 or email: stella@erewashcvs.org.uk
