The core business of T3SC is to act as the Council for Voluntary Service (CVS) for Tameside, and as lead VCS infrastructure agency for Tameside.

T3SC’s mission is to build a strong, clear and independent voice for the voluntary and community sectors in Tameside, through developing the capacity and accountability of individuals and groups, and of the sector as a whole. This is embodied in our mission statement ‘Making a difference to Tameside’s communities’.

T3SC works in a number of different areas including supporting voluntary and community groups with running their group and applying for funding and giving Tameside's communities a voice through the networks, amongst other things.

We can demonstrate how we make a difference, our positive impact, in a number of ways.

In 2008, T3SC achieved the NAVCA Quality Award, which demonstrates the quality of the delivery of infrastructure services to local voluntary and community groups. Read more about the quality award here.

www.navca.org.uk/services/quality/

In 2009, a visit to NHS Tameside and Glossop by the Department of Health, Health Inequalities National Support Team reported that ‘Tameside 3rd Sector Coalition provides strong leadership to the third sector’.

To see some examples of T3SC work and how it has affected groups and members of Tameside's communities we have produced a series of short case examples.

Find our annual report, which illustrates our impact in more detail, can be found here.