Community Planning Partnership (CPP)
CVS Aberdeenshire - Central & South is a local community planning partner in South Aberdeenshire within Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership. We attend the local community planning groups in Marr and Kincardine & Mearns areas (LCPG's). Our role within community planning is to represent the interest of the voluntary sector.

This does not mean that we try to represent all the views of each and every community and voluntary group that we know about. Rather we endeavour to feed in information and a point of view which reflects the interests of the voluntary sector generally from our local knowledge and information.

CVS Aberdeenshire - Central & South works with other community planning partners in MARR to hold Community Forums. You are welcome to attend these forums in order to make your views known, meet other people from your area who are involved in community activity, be involved in discussions and hear about issues that are current.

In Kincardine & Mearns, CVSA is forming a Community Forum in order to complement the Community Council Forum which already exists.

If you are interested in attending any of the forums, or simply wish to make is aware of your views or issues then please contact us.

In addition CVSA works with our Aberdeenshire CVS Network colleagues to attend both the Community Planning Executive at Chief Officer level, and the Community Planning Board at Board level.

Local Social Enterprise Partnership
We are currently awaiting further news about the re establishment of this partnership.

Community Health Partnership (CHP)
CVSA attends the South Aberdeenshire Local Community Health Partnership (SALCHP) meetings to represent the interests of the local community and voluntary sector groups which deliver health services or are involved with health improvement generally.

We also hold two Community Health Partnership seminars each year across the area I order to keep community and voluntary groups informed about CHP issues and activity. If you are interested in attending these seminars and wish to receive CHP information that we circulate, then please contact us.

In addition, CVSA works with our CVS Network colleagues to attend the Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership and the Aberdeenshire Health Improvement Group.

Other Shire wide partnerships we feed into are: Integrated Aberdeenshire, Carers Strategy & Implementation Group, Young Carers Strategy Group and Volunteer Centre Aberdeenshire; and we have links to the Cairngorms National park Authority and the Community Safety Executive.

Local representation: we are members of Marr Area Partnership, Kincardine & Mearns Area Partnership, South Aberdeenshire Drug, alcohol & blood born diseases Forum, South Health Improvement Group and Older People’s Management Team (South).

If you have views about any of the topics covered by one or more of the above groups and partnerships, or would like more information or to become involved in representational work yourself, please contact CVSA.