Sobus is the Community Development Agency for Hammersmith & Fulham. It has been created through the merger of the Community and Voluntary Sector Association Hammersmith & Fulham (CaVSA) and the Fulham Community Partnership Trust (FCPT).
Sobus operates across the Borough and works with community and voluntary organisations, social enterprises and business startups, residents and statutory agencies.
Sobus provides a range of services which support voluntary and community sector organisations with the expected impact for those organisations:
- Capacity of VCS to support beneficiaries increasing
- Organisations reporting improved financial stability
- Organisations more able to demonstrate impact.
- Increase in partnership working
- Improved governance of organisations
- Greater success rate for commissioning contracts and grant funding