What Compact Champions do

Champions have a range of roles, both large and small, to play in their organisations, which benefit both their organisations and others.

Building Compact use within organisations
Compact champions focus on their own organisation, and primarily for the benefit of their organisation. They work to ensure everyone (whether trustees, staff or volunteers) knows and uses their Compact. Champions in public bodies ensure that people know about the Compact at an operational level. Champions in local groups are vital to upholding the sector’s independence.

All Champions:

• Provide a contact point in their organisation for Compact information and advice
• Encourage and facilitate the organisation’s Compact compliance
• Develop understanding of the Compact in practice and share learning.

Champions contribute to Compact implementation – indirectly
While they are not a substitute for fully resourced, co-ordinated Local Compact implementation (for example paid Compact workers), champions nevertheless contribute to more and better Compact implementation. The more champions there are, the greater and more visible your Compact’s impact will be, because they –

• Boost your Compact’s capacity by investing their time and enthusiasm
• Keep the Compact alive, making it human, real and relevant to people
• Inform the implementation group on Compact wins and problem areas.

Range of roles champions can play

Role	Outcome
Advocate - sells the Compact, explains "what’s in it for us?"	Broader awareness - more know what Compact is and see it positively
Promoter of Compact principles	Compact principles embedded, underpin getting better outcomes
Campaigner for good practice	Partners expand their expectations as the Compact achieves more impact
Problem solver and dispute settler	Help more to work better in the future
Diplomat and exemplar of a "Compact way of working" together	Improved culture of engagement and  transformation of relationships
Ambassador – gets Compact on the agenda and discussed externally	Wider ownership of Compact principles and way of working

Champions in public bodies

Here's how champions in public bodies get their department to use the Compact: