Blackpool CAN

Blackpool CAN is also called Blackpool Community Action Network.

Through the pandemic Blackpool Council and the Blackpool VCFSE sector have seen the critical value of thriving communities. People helped and supported others around them. Local government and health services developed stronger relationships with their local community, often facilitated by the VCFSE sector. Towns and cities with a thriving VCFSE sector supported by infrastructure organisations were able to put forward a better coordinated, stronger response.

In the current economic climate, small locally based VCFSE organisations need support more than ever and it has been determined that there is a need to increase the capacity of the local VCFSE sector in Blackpool to deliver support to the wider community. With this in mind, Blackpool Council, through the Shared Prosperity Fund, has provided financial resources to help build capacity & resilience to the Blackpool VCFSE sector to: attract funding, operate good governance, recruit, train and manage volunteers, influence public service commissioning, network across the VCFSE and with relevant statutory bodies and other potential collaborators, and simply know what’s going on and disseminate knowledge at a local level.