Networking – Forums, Conference & Workshops
Every day, Third Sector organisations make an important contribution to tackling some of the deep-rooted issues our communities face. Working together, we build stronger links and achieve more.
Collaborations and partnership working can unlock the full potential of our sector and help us make an even greater impact on the lives of those who need us most.
Third Sector Leadership Forum
The Forum is the key local space for sector representatives to come together.
Membership is open to any locally-based third sector organisation and to regional and national organisations funded to or proactively providing services in West Dunbartonshire.
Forum meetings take place quarterly – March, June, September and December and offer protected time for discussion, collaboration and joint training opportunities, around the key issues and challenges we all face.
Meeting agendas are varied and you can request an item be added by emailing us at info@wdcvs.com or through Contact Us
Joint Working Within The Forum
A key part of the forum is the sector working together to make West Dunbartonshire’s communities safer and stronger.
Key outputs include.
Safeguarding
At the September 2025 meeting colleagues considered how best to improve safeguarding within the sector and created the following tools.
Adult Concern Referral Flowchart, Child Concern Referral Flowchart, Risk Assessment Form Template, Risk Management Template – Individuals, Safeguarding & Risk Management, Safeguarding Policy Template – TSO, Specimen Code of Conduct, Specimen Policy – Community Groups, Specimen Policy Statement TSO, Video on Safeguarding, Police Scotland – Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse Scotland.
Notes, action logs and presentations from previous forum meetings are available in our Documents and Resources section.
Workshops
Throughout the year, we also offer a range of themed workshop sessions, covering:
- Start Well: Children, families and youth-work focussed issues
- Live Well: Adult health, wellbeing and inequalities issues
- Age Well: Supporting living well in older age
- InVOLve: Volunteer coordination, management and support issues
- WFWD: Walking, keeping active and physical activity issues
These sessions provide the opportunity for on-line and/or in-person discussions on key policy or practice issues.
See our e-bulletin and social media for details. Or Contact Us to find out more
2025 Conference Attendees
Excellent day, thank you for arranging it and all you do - Great informative event - Well done WDCVS - I'm so pleased I was able to change my diary in order to attend - Really informative talks, leadership speaker was fabulous.
Annual Sector Conference
In June each year, the sector conference offers a variety of plenary and workshops sessions. Feedback from the 2025 conference is available here.
The next conference will take place on 4th June 2026.
Details will be provided here early in the New Year and in future e-bulletins and social media posts.
Forum Dates can be found below.
