Compact Voice Information

Compact Voice has contacted every prospective parliamentary candidate in England, seeking their responses to the following three questions: 1. How important is the charity and voluntary sector to your constituency? 2. What efforts will you make - if elected - to work with local charities and voluntary sector organisations in your constituency? 3. Will you champion the Compact in your constituency, to encourage better partnership working between the local public sector and the voluntary and community sector? Many PPCs have already sent through answers to these questions, which will serve not only as a way of gauging their views on the sector, but also provide the opportunity for candidates to be held to account on any pledges of support they may make. We have developed a new website, at http://election.compactvoice.org.uk. You can search for your constituency and see the views of the candidates seeking your vote. This website also contains information about how different groups and organisations in the sector are addressing the election, and you may be interested to see some of the work happening across the country during this important time. Given how busy the candidates will be during this time, we all need to work together to make them realise how important their answers are. And for that, we need your help. Compact Voice is calling on its members and networks to help us gather as much information as possible. You can help us in the following ways: 1) Visit http://election.compactvoice.org.uk, and search for the responses from candidates in your (or your organisation's) constituency. You can search by postcode to find your constituency. 2) If your candidate hasn't responded, please contact them and encourage them to do so. Your voice as a constituent is amazingly powerful. Without your votes, they will not be elected. Website addresses should be included for many of the candidates - if there is no contact information, email us at compact@compactvoice.org.uk and we will try and help you reach them. 3) If you ...