The VCFSE Sector in Liverpool City Region

Liverpool City Region is home to a dedicated and diverse range of VCFSE organisations committed to making our communities a better place for everyone that lives here. We have a deep-rooted sense of social justice, with the VCFSE sector and our long-standing community activism an integral part of our region’s economic, wellbeing and social fabric.

Over 11,500 VCFSE groups supporting communities across the City Region including 5,500 community groups

21,000 plus FTE employees working in the sector

£795.9m GVA contribution to the City Region

216,000 volunteers contributing over 289,000 hours per week

Source: Cheshire & Merseyside State of the Sector Report 2023, Voluntary Sector North West

  • The VS6 Partnership works together with the VCFSE sector to champion the vital role our sector plays in the future of the City Region. We seek to shape local policy and decision making for the benefit of our communities and advocate for our sector to ensure our collective voice is heard.

  • VCFSE support organisations have collectively engaged with public and private sector partners on a City Region level since 2004. In 2015, we formally launched the VS6 partnership in order to provide a voice, platform and action model for VCFSE participation. 

    We’re focused on driving positive change by connecting the VCFSE sector with our developing city region. Together, we have links to 11,500 organisations across the six boroughs, and aim to support these groups – many integral to our communities - to collectively influence decision making: 

    • Offering solutions to some of the most challenging economic issues facing our City Region

    • Driving community-centered approaches to transforming health and well-being

    • Providing a single point of contact for the city’s VCFSE sector

“Bringing together a diverse group of interests into a single grouping…is extremely significant for the betterment of the lives and wellbeing of our communities. The work that VS6 does has never been more valuable for those communities, sectors and bodies that it represents.”
— Robert Hough CBE, former LEP chair
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Rev Canon Dr Ellen Loudon, Independent VS6 Chair

“Together we’re developing a new culture of partnership and collaboration across the City Region, ensuring a future that has communities at the heart of our City Region.”