Community & Voluntary Service - Mid & North Bedfordshire aims to bring you published reports of relevance to the Voluntary & Community Sector in Mid & North Bedfordshire. These include:

• Strong Communities - Voluntary and community sector infrastructure organisations in the Milton Keynes & South Midlands growth area – including Community & Voluntary Service - Mid & North Bedfordshire (CVS - Mid & North Beds) – have recently published important research on the social infrastructure needs of new communities.  Their report – Strong Communities – includes proposals for planning, implementing and resourcing the delivery of social infrastructure in the region’s six growth areas.

• State of the Sector 2006 - From 2005 to 2006 every voluntary organisation or community group in Bedfordshire and Luton should have received a Community Mapping Questionnaire to assist infrastructure organisations (like Community & Voluntary Service - Mid & North Bedfordshire) develop a better understanding of the diversity and size of the sector. The findings from these questionnaires have now been published in a new report ‘State of the Sector 2006’.