Infrastructure Support
CaVSA provides a range of free information and development services to help your group.
READY - 2 - GO
Invitation to an introductory workshop
Who should attend?
- Trustees/directors /committee members (whether actual or prospective)
- people thinking of starting up a not for profit organisation, together with their prospective Trustees/directors /committee members
- constituted organisations with little or no funding
- Organisations struggling to secure funding
When?
- Workshop 2: needs analysis, planning, partnership working and look at basic policies
When: Thursday 19th May 9.30 -13.00 - Workshop 3: Finance
When: Thursday 16th June 9.30 -13.00 - Workshop 4: Structure, objects, constitution.
When: Thursday 14th July 9.30 -13.00
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance for individual workshops and those attending the whole programme will receive a certificate of completion.
Venue will be advised with booking confirmation
To book, go to: CaVSA Events Calendar. Click in the date and follow the instructions that appear in the window on the right of the calendar.
Types of development support include
Help with setting up a new voluntary or community group.
Got a great idea but not sure what to do next? Advice on getting things going, legal structures, and funding.
Advice, information and support on organisational issues for new and existing groups
including charity/company registration, project planning, funding advice, financial management, policies and good practice - by phone, email or face-to-face.
Regular information updates to help you keep up with what’s going on for the voluntary and community sector locally and nationally:
Third Sector News H&F newsletter published 4 times a year (free to VCS organisations); our website and e-mail networks and bulletins for special interest groups such as children’s organisations; mental health; learning disability.
Training for staff, volunteers and management committee members to help build your knowledge and skills.
Details of our training can be found in our training programme.
An organisational ‘Health Check’ service,
which can help you to identify if there are any areas of your organisation’s activities which need improvement in order to be ‘safe and legal’.
Support and training for management committees
tailored training sessions to help your committee tackle a specific issue; and consultancy to help develop larger projects.
