Sarah Burns
Director of Communities, Croydon Voluntary Action
Sarah is the strategic lead for the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector in the transformation of health and social care.
Her core responsibilities include co-designing and implementing One Croydon’s Locality Operating Model, part of The King’s Fund Healthy Communities Together, moving power to local people and communities.
Sarah engages local communities in co-producing services and activities that deliver transformational health outcomes by co-producing Local Action Plans, to achieve a borough-wide strategy for change.
Sarah is enabling the VCSE sector across South West London to be an integral part of the ICS governance and decision making, managing the VCSE Director post to build the alliance and governance structures, maximizing opportunities for the sector to work as an equal partner in the ICS.