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	Heather Farley, Chief Executive. Heather represents the voice of the West Norfolk sector at a number of forums locally, across the county and regionally. She is also Vice Chair of the West Norfolk Partnership Board and is heavily involved in strategic planning for the area. She directs WNVCA to best suit the interests of the voluntary and community sector in West Norfolk.
	Judith Berry, Volunteering Assistant /Secretariat Judith assists Karen Lee with Volunteer Centre administration, conducts CRB checks and liaisons with organisations and volunteers with regards to volunteering and organising volunteer events. She also provides Secretariat support.
	Maxine Fiander, Development Manager Maxine works closely with the voluntary and community sectors to help organisations expand their roles and goals. She helps them find funders, gives advice on applications, helps with problem solving, constitutions, putting trustee boards together and becoming registered charities, thus enabling organisations to reach their full potential.
	Judith Flack, Finance Officer Judith maintains the financial information for VCA & other voluntary & community organisations and provide other information of a finance nature as required.
	Ian Francis, Development Officer Ian’s role is to provide support through the Seamless Support Project to existing and potential social enterprises alongside voluntary and community groups aiding them to develop and prioritise their ideas and devise realistic action plans. He works in partnership with other infrastructure organisations to promote not only best practice but also to focus on delivering quality. He advises groups on a wide range of issues from adopting a suitable legal structure, through to writing constitutions the importance of roles and responsibilities and seeking out appropriate funding streams.
	Michelle Johnson, Finance and Administration Manager Michelle’s role as Finance Manager includes the upkeep of our own financial systems, giving help on financial matters and providing services to the Voluntary and Community Sector. She advises on data protection, personnel and health and safety. She is also responsible for the staff files, office administration and equipment.
	Jackie Lawrence, Administrative Assistant Jackie is often the first voice you’ll hear on the telephone and the first face you’ll see as you walk through our door. She supports all members of staff and keeps the data base current.
	Karen Lee, Volunteering Officer Karen offers a brokerage service between volunteers and voluntary and community organsations. Karen is on hand to offer advice about recruitment and retention of volunteers. Karen regulary attends events to promote volunteering and holds a volunteers surgery once a month at Swaffham Community Centre.
	Marie Connell, Partnership Cohesion Officer Marie is funded by West Norfolk Partnership Board to develop the actions required from the Community Cohesion Strategy and deliver on those actions. She also provides training on diversity, inclusion and cohesion for both the voluntary and statutory colleagues.
	Valeria Makara, Multi Lingual Parent Advocacy Officer Valeria is funded through the Migration Impacts Fund in partnership with Norfolk Children Services and West Norfolk Voluntary and Community Action (WNVCA). The purpose of Valeria's post is to improve the communication between parents of EAL students and schools in West Norfolk. In the future Valeria will be helping to set up family ESOL sessions along with drop in clinics at schools across this part of the county. Valeria can share information about events, support and networks to encourage parents, children and school staff to get to know her.
	Peter Morris, Partnership Delivery Officer Peter’s principle aim is to promote, enable and support partnership working between the statutory agencies and the voluntary and community sector (VCS). Therefore, Peter’s role is to represent the VCS and to ensure that the VCS plays an integral part of the local decision making process by influencing the local strategic partnerships (West Norfolk Partnership) and the local area agreements (Norfolk Ambition). However, he is also involved through liaison with the local VCS in gauging the needs and requirements of the sector.
	Nikki Sewell, North Lynn Activities Coordinator Works on a project to reinvigorate and reconnect those communities that are feeling the pressure from recession most acutely. Nikki will be supporting local people in North Lynn to plan, fund and initiate small projects, reconnect them with jobs and tackle the real and perceived sense of unfairness some people are feeling.

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