ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAMME (ASP) TO HELP BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC, FAITH, REFUGEES/ASYLUM SEEKERS AND TRAVELLERS COMMUNITY GROUPS TO BECOME ENGAGED IN THE CHANGEUP PROGRAMME.

Government is working with the voluntary and community sector and other stakeholders to find ways of improving the infrastructure support which is offered to frontline voluntary and community organisations. Frontline organisations help to deliver public services in unique ways and also provide the bedrock of community engagement. The best possible infrastructure services are needed to help make sure these organisations are able to do the best they can. Government hopes to see all stakeholders taking an active part in this programme. Working across urban and rural communities those groups closest to the most socially excluded must also be involved.

In the South East, the Government Office South East (GOSE) and a Regional Consortium of stakeholders from the statutory and voluntary and community sectors have developed a regional plan based on early mapping programme.
The Regional Consortium is committed to ensuring that Black and Minority Ethnic Voluntary and Community Organisations (BME VCO’s) and other small frontline organisations are able to benefit from this programme. Work carried out in the early part of this programme - mapping project-Early Spend demonstrated the continuing lack of consistent and widespread support for the BME VCO sector in the South East.

ChangUp Additional Support Programme ( ASP): CEMP is a lead agency delivering Additional Support Programme in West Sussex.