DVC are part of the Northamptonshire Infrastructure Consortium Partnership who work together to create a forward plan for the development of infrastructure agencies and their services to front line organisations within Northamptonshire. This has included working on the development of the Northamptonshire's Third Sector Partnership Agreement.

This piece of work was designed to engender and improve open dialogue within the Northamptonshire Infrastructure Steering Group and going forward to create a communication structure for the whole VCS and their stakeholders. To help the development of the agreement the following actions were taken:

• 1. Survey to all Consortium Steering Group Members (March 2006)
• 2. Report highlighting key findings from survey to Consortium Group (March 2006)
• 3. Facilitated Workshop 1 (28 June 2006) and Workshop 2 (13 July 2006)
• 4. Draft partnership plan and Terms of Reference for the Steering Group (July 2006)
• 5. An open consultation period for the sector to respond to the Partnership Agreement, which was opened on 22nd February 2007 and closed on 21st May 2007
• 6. 12 month development period to monitor, evaluate, make amendments and develop the necessary processes for appointing 3rd sector representatives.
• 7. The partnership agreement and Terms of Reference were communicated to the wider third sector at a countywide communication event in June 2007, thus ensuring the widest visibility of the work plan of the Consortium Steering Group.

In light of significant changes the Northamptonshire Infrastructure Consortium felt it was important to review this document along with the rest of their documentation. Below is the Third Sector Agreement plus the Representational Procedures which outlines how people from the voluntary and community organisations can be selected to represent the sector on another body.

• Northamptonshire Third Sector Partnership Agreement (335 kb)
• Representational Procedures (26 kb)
• Diagram of the Third Sector Partnership (171 kb)