| | Islington Strategic Partnership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The government chose IVAC in Islington to be the body that has the responsibility of setting up and running the Community Network. |
 | | In Islington there is one umbrella group who has the responsibility of providing overall support for all these groups, and that is Islington Voluntary Action Council (IVAC), an organisation set up over 30 years ago, and managed by the groups themselves to provide support and representation. |
 | | Nearly all of Islington’s 1,000 groups have used IVAC’s services at one time or another, whether it was training, or help with managing finances, or getting advice on raising funds or help with a problem or any one of the large number of services to groups that IVAC offers. |
| www.ivac.org.uk /ispartnership.htm (1234 words) |