Activity

Local Compact Partners

Government Departments and Government Offices for the Regions

Hold an event

•  Compact Annual Review event - a great opportunity to identify successes and gaps, and celebrate wins
• Annual conference for your Compact Champions
• Training session for your Compact Champions to engage / recruit
• Network meeting to publicise the Compact to small, BME and faith groups

• Seminar
• Roundtable or summit with partner organisations
• Participate in a Local Compact or other local partnership event
• Include messages about the Compact and Compact Week in Ministerial speeches at other events

Communicate locally /
internally

• Generate coverage about the Compact through your own internal communication channels (intranet / website)
• Consider starting a ‘job swop / work shadowing’ scheme between voluntary and community sector and the public sector to raise awareness of each other’s roles
• Include a Compact-related question at a Council meeting to make Councillors more aware of the Compact
• Conduct a local relationship poll on your website
• Publish a local newsletter and circulate locally

• Generate coverage about the Compact by including an article on your intranet
• Include an article in a staff newsletter
• Place messages for plasma screens 
• Use a staff meeting or training session to raise awareness and share learning
  
  
  

Celebrate
your
successes

•  Hold your own Local Compact Awards
• If your area is successful in this year’s national Compact Awards, publicise the news locally

• If your department is successful in this year’s national Compact Awards, publicise the news using internal communications channels

Get involved
with Compact Voice and the Commission
for the
Compact

• Make sure your event / activity is featured on the Compact website. See Compact Week Events.
  Enter your Compact Week Activity
  Please contact Steph Vickers at the Commission on: 0121 237 5911
•  Invite the Commissioner for the Compact and representatives from Compact Voice and the Commission for the Compact along to your event during Compact Week
• Utilise the recent research identifying the key factors behind Local Compacts (to be published by the Commission for the Compact in early September 2008) and discuss how appropriate findings can be implemented locally

• Make sure your event / activity is featured on the Cabinet Office and Compact websites. Please contact Tracey Sisley at the Office of the Third Sector and Steph Vickers (please see contacts section)

Utilise the marketing
materials
in this pack

• Show case the Compact in a display showing the difference it makes to the community
• Identify and promote the impact the Compact has on relations between public bodies and groups by conducting a Local Relationship Poll either by post or at an event (see Appendix 9)
• Display the poster about Compact week and include details of your local Compact Champion(s)
• Borrow one of Compact Voice’s / Commission’s Compact pull-up display stands
• If you are holding an event, order Compact-branded merchandise from the communications team at the Commission. This includes Compact-branded pens and notepads plus enamel Compact badges for your Compact Champions

Please note, you can download pdfs and word documents from this guidance pack from the Compact website at:

www.thecompact.org.uk/

• Include display stands and information in reception areas
• Display the poster about Compact week and include details of your local Compact Champion(s)
• Borrow one of Compact Voice’s / Commission’s Compact pull-up display stands
• If you are holding an event, order Compact-branded merchandise from the communications team at the Commission. This includes Compact-brand pens and notepads plus enamel compact badges for your Compact Champions

Please note, you can download pdfs and word documents from this guidance pack from the Compact website at:

www.thecompact.org.uk/

Generate
media
coverage

Use or adapt the various press release and feature article templates included in the appendices of this guidance pack

• Launch or announce a new initiative
• Publish local research

If you require any additional assistance, please do not hesitate to contact Catherine Byerley at the Commission for the Compact on 0121 237 5905

• Use or adapt the various press release and feature article templates included in the appendices of this guidance pack
• Publish a strategy, action plan or report
• Refresh or review a strategy or action plan, or regional Compact
• Announce a new commitment to benefit the relationship
• Launch a website, guidance or a consultation
• Issue press releases / good news stories about work in the third sector