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Aug 8, 2025
Safeguarding Medway’s Voluntary Future | 111
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0:42We'll take what needs to be done and then from that, we'll merge the conversations.
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0:46Mark WickerGUEST
Well, I come from the perspective of my role within MDA, which is my job is to take joy, the directory of joy into MDA.
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0:56Mark WickerGUEST
into the community and to encourage the voluntary community sector to be part of it.
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1:01Mark WickerGUEST
And the reason for that is because not just for them to advertise what they do, all the wonderful work they do, but as an engine to take funding into the voluntary community sector.
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1:13Mark WickerGUEST
It's a really useful way and an innovative way, I think, of getting funding into the voluntary sector through referral payments and seed funding, a pot of money that we're working with, sending small £5,000 grants into organisations to help them to get things off the ground and to maybe or to potentially invest deal with a massive waiting list that they have.
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1:43Mark WickerGUEST
They're proving there's a gap in provision because they just do not have the resources to deal with the demand that's coming.
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29:05They do fantastic work and it's all been narrative, splitting down labor, but no data.