This short briefing aims to provide voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) colleagues and the wider sector with the background information and evidence to support the GM VCFSE Leadership Group's open letter to GM Commissioners which has been written in response to years of systemic underfunding, recent disinvestment, delayed commissioning decisions, and new financial pressures.
The briefing aims to support VCFSE colleagues and the wider sector to advocate on behalf of the sector when they have the opportunity to do so.