Premier Australian community website

26/05/2008 by admin.

Here is a premier Australian community website with help sheets on every aspect of running a community organisation.

As in any type of activity, leadership at the community level is about ensuring good management.

Community Leadership Resource Centre - Help Sheets

• Building Business Community Partnerships
• Revitalising your Board
• Transferring Board Knowledge for Succession
• Leadership and Human Resources
• Fiduciary Responsibilities
• Financial Management and your group
• Establishing a Fundraising Strategy
• Compliance and not-for-profit groups
• Establishing a Business Plan for your community Group
• Involving Young People in Community
• Clarifying the roles of the Board and staff
• Entrepreneurial Audits for community groups
• Legal Structuring of Community Groups
• Marketing and Communications and your community group
• Modern Governance
• Performance Indicators for your community group
• Instituting Business methods and organisational procedures
• Creating Board sub-committees
• Preparing to establish a Community Development business
• Planning, Recruiting, Managing and Retaining Volunteers
o Recruiting new volunteers to your group
o Managing Volunteers
o Retaining your volunteers
• Mobilising the Community
• Succession Planning for community groups.
• Strategic and Operational Planning
• Tax and Community Groups
• Running a Community Consultative Process

Community Leadership Resource Centre - Site Map

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Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) : : REPORT

23/12/2007 by admin.

The Value and Independence of the Voluntary Sector
Highlights of this report
This study describes the distinctive values of the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) andassesses whether the government’s service delivery agenda has impacted on the sector’sindependence.

Independence

• The research suggests that the voluntary and community sector does not see itself indanger of government takeover, even though many of the groups in our sample acceptgovernment money.• A group’s sense of its own independence derives from its income, activities andattitudes. The following five factors enhance groups’ feelings of independence:1. If they receive funding from foundations and charitable trusts, particularlylong-term core funding2. If they raise a portion of their own income3. If they have a positive attitude toward commerce4. If they engage in advocacy5. If they are creative in the way they meet the demands of funders
Values
• Voluntary and community sector groups have distinctive values and qualities thatmake them excellent providers of services and effective advocates of change:1. Passionate, risk taking and persistent – they are willing to speak out andchallenge the system2. Knowledge and ‘cultural competence’ allow them to help the hardest toreach people3. Holistic, person-centred approach allows them to deliver more effectiveservices4. They turn ‘service users’ into agents of social change5. They are uniquely placed to work between different government agencies
Recommendations:
• Government needs to focus on the long term outcomes of VCS organisations’ work,rather than on hitting short term numerical targets, in order to achieve its aims andobjectives for the sector• Foundations can play a unique role by supporting a cadre of bold organizations thatchallenge the system and operate outside of state funding• VCS groups need to better measure their own effectiveness• This limited study has acted as a barometer to test the state of the sector. Moreresearch is required to develop a deeper understanding of the issues facing the VCS. Check out the report:The Value and Independence of the Voluntary Sector

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Grant Schemes : : Health Care : : Social Enterprises

09/12/2007 by admin.

James Tudor Foundation
The Foundation was established to support the relief of sickness and makes grants in pursuit of this. Grants are made in six programme areas to smaller (registered) charities that have been established for at least two years: Palliative care • Medical research • Health education, awards and scholarship • The direct relief of sickness • The UK private healthcare sector • The fulfilment of the Foundation’s charitable objects by other means.
Applications can be submitted at anytime. Further Information WestPoint, 78 Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1QX; Tel: 0117 985 8715; Email: admin@jamestudor.org.uk; Internet: www.jamestudor.org.uk
Funding to Develop the Sustainability of Young Social Enterprises
The Adventure Capital Fund (ACF) has announced that it is accepting applications under itsBusiness Development Grant scheme. The ACF offers a range of investments and support to develop stable and sustainable community based enterprises. Under the Business Development Grant scheme, funding of up to £15,000 is available to support community enterprises in their early stages of development by developing their skills and capacity. The aim is to improve their investment readiness and sustainability. The Adventure Capital Fund expects to make around 30 Business Development Grants a year to be distributed on a rolling basis. Approximately 3 or 4 grants will be made in each English region. Eligible costs could include: technical assistance and advice, legal or other fees relating to building purchase or development, business planning, training, feasibility studies, market research or product development. To be eligible for funding, organisations need to serve one or more clear communities - of place, interest or identity; be established within the community that they seek to serve and have members of that community involved in and represented in the management and decision-making processes; and be looking to use entrepreneurial methods to achieve social goals. Applications to the Business Development Grant scheme can
be made at any time. http://www.adventurecapitalfund.org.uk/content/view/36/50/
2007 Lottery Awards
Now in their fourth year, the Awards aim to recognise the difference that Lottery-funded projects of all sizes make to local communities and celebrate the achievements of the people behind them. This year, winning projects will receive a £2,000 prize to spend on their project, and will also have their achievements highlighted on a special BBC Lottery programme in September. The Awards are in seven categories: Sport; Heritage; Arts; Environment; Voluntary/Charity; Health and Education.
The deadline for nominations is 27 April. Further information: Tel: 0845 130 4133; Internet: www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards/

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Community Funding Agencies

22/11/2007 by admin.

Abbey National Charitable Trust Ltd

Grants of up to £2,500 are available for local regeneration projects which encourage cross community partnerships. To meet this priority different parts of the community need to work together to help regenerate their local area. The aim is to encourage community networks, partnerships and shared resources. This would include intergenerational work, inclusion of disadvantaged people, cross community projects, encouraging diversity or networks of people from different ethnic groups to work together. Grants are available for one year only and cannot be for salaries or core costs. Charitable Trust Secretary, Abbey Charitable Trust Ltd.,

PO Box 911, Central Milton Keynes MK9 1AD
Tel: 0870 608 0104
Email: communitypartnership@abbey.com
Website: www.abbeynational.com/home/comm_inv/comm_inv-trust.htm

Adventure Capital Fund

The Adventure Capital Fund was launched in December 2002 in order to create new forms of investment in community organisations. The fund aims to strengthen local communities by investing in organisations that work in and for their communities. By helping organisations to become stronger and more self-sufficient through enterprise, the fund aims to help each group become sustainable in the long term and better able to control their own destinies by becoming less reliant upon short-term grants. Adventure Capital Fund, c/o Local Investment Fund, 7th Floor, Ibex House, 42-47 Minories, London EC3N 1DY
Tel: 0207 680 1028
Email: info@adventurecapitalfund.org.uk
Website: www.adventurecapitalfund.org.uk

Awards for All

Provides grants between £500 and £5,000 to help small groups. Awards for All South East, 3 rd Floor, Dominion House, Woodbridge Road, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4BN
Tel: 01483 462943 Fax:01483 569893
Email: south.east@awardsforall.org.uk
Website: www.awardsforall.org.uk

B&Q You Can Do It Awards

£5,000 worth of B&Q prodcts are available for local community projects. The scheme is launched in January. Tel: 0845 300 1001
Website: www.diy.com/awards

Barclays Local Hero Award

This scheme awards volunteers who have demonstrated great commitment and support to their club or organisation. Each winner is presented with a special medal and a cheque for £1000 for the club or charity of their choice. Website: www.barclays.co.uk/spacesforsports

Biffaward

Biffaward is a landfill tax credit funded scheme and so projects must be within 10 miles of a Biffa operation (a postcode search is available on the website). Varying levels of funding are available for flagship projects (up to £500,000), small grants projects (up to £5,000) and biodiveristy projects (discretionary). The aim of the scheme is to: Provide and improve public amenities; Create, Restore and Manage areas specifically to increase biodiversity; Enable smaller groups to access funding more easily; and Support community led regeneration schemes of regional or national significance. Tel: 0870 036 1000
Email: grants@rswt.org
Website: www.biffaward.org/welcome.php

The Big Lottery Fund

Big Lottery Fund is responsible for giving out half the money for good causes raised by the National Lottery, giving a budget of about £630 million a year. Funding covers health, education, environment and charitable purposes. They are committed to bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.3rd Floor Dominion House,

Woodbridge Road,

Guildford, Surrey GU1 4BN
Tel: 01468 462900
Email: enquiries.se@biglotteryfund.org.uk
Website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk

CAF Grantmaking

This programme aims to build the capacity of small to medium-sized charities. Grants are available from 1 May 2005 until 31 January 2006. The total grant budget for this period is £1.2 million. Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4TA
Tel: 01732 520 334 Fax: 01732 520 159
Email: grants@cafonline.org
Website: www.cafonline.org/grants

Capacity Builders (from April 2006)

This scheme offered by the Home Office aims to support those groups in the voluntary and community sector that should be in the driving seat in delivering high quality, collaborative and sustainable sector support services and representation. Website: Capacity Builders

Charles Hayward Foundation

This foundation offers grants of between £1,000 and £20,000 to support projects providing community facilities, including funding the capital costs of community centres and village halls and community facilities provided by churches and faith groups. Hayward House, 45 Harrington Gardens,

London,

SW7 4JU.
Tel: 020 7370 7063 or 020 7370 7067
Website: www.charleshaywardfoundation.org.uk

Church Urban Fund

Grants are awarded to projects tackling poverty and marginalisation in the urban areas of England. The fund aims to benefit people who are socially, culturally, spiritually, environmentally and financially disadvantaged. Grants of up to £30,000 are awarded and can be either capital or revenue funding. Church Urban Fund, 1 Millbank, London SW1P 3JZ
Email: enquiries@cuf.org.uk
Website: www.cuf.org.uk/home.htm

Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust

Makes grants to charities and churches in Kent aiming to improve quality of life, tackle poverty, social isolation or exclusion and protect the natural resources and heritage of the local areas for their inhabitants. Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust
2 Friars Lane Ricmond Surrey TW9 1NL
Tel 0208 288 9101
Email admin@cfct.org.uk
Website:www.cfct.org.uk

David Knightly - Pride of Place Awards

Provides grants to local communities for schemes that will help make the local area a better place to live and work. To determine whether applications are currently being received, please contact the trust. Gillian Binks, David Knightly Charitable Trust, Pride of Place Awards, 22 Ferndene Road, Withington, Manchester, M20 4TT, Tel: 0161 445 6452

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Gives grants for charitable purposes in four Programme areas: Arts and Heritage; Education; Environment; and Social Development. There is no maximum grant size.
11 Park Place , London

SW1A 1LPTel: 020 7297 4700 Fax: 020 7297 4701
Email: info@esmeefairbairn.org.uk
Website: www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk

Futurebuilders

Investment fund for the voluntary and community sector. Investments will be made in the form of loans, grants and capacity building. The reasoning behind the fund is that not enough capital investment is made in the voluntary and community sector and this is an innovative way of introducing this money. Voluntary and community groups must be prepared to take a loan and it is intended that it should be repaid through the secural of an agreement with a public sector agency for the delivery of services. There are five areas of service delivery that are applicable for funding: community cohesion; crime; education and learning; health and social care; and support for children and young people. The minimum level of investment is £30,000 and the maximum limit ois £10million. Development grants are available. Tel: 0191 261 5200
Email: info@futurebuilders-england.org.uk
Website: www.futurebuilders-england.org.uk

The Gerald Micklem Trust

This is a general charitable trust. The Trustees have no restrictions on them as to the kinds of project or the areas they can support, and are generally prepared to consider any field. Mrs. S.J. Shone, Bolinge Hill Farm, Buriton, Petersfield, Hampshire GU31 4NN
Email: ghmicklem.charitabletrust@btinternet.com
Website: www.peter.shone.btinternet.co.uk/GHMCT1.htm

Help Yourselves

A new fund created by Save the Children and British Gas, Help Yourselves funds projects up to £1000 that give young people the chance to improve their communities. Save the Children, 5th Floor, Hawthorns House, Halfords Lane, Smethwick,

B66 1BB

Email: helpyourselves@savethechildren.org.uk Website: www.helpyourselves.org.uk

Henry Smith Charity

Large grants of up to £60,000 over three years and a small grant scheme of up to £10,000 is available for projects that support communities in areas of deprivation. The Director, Henry Smith’s Charity, 5 Chancery Lane, Clifford’s

Inn, London EC4A 1BU
Tel: 020 7320 6884
Website: www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk

Heritage Lottery Fund

Aims to support work designed to care for the heritage and to help people to experience it. They also support activities that will increase people’s understanding and enjoyment of our heritage. There are two main funding strands, grants for between £5,000 and £50,000 and grants of over £50,000. There is also a grant programme for the repair of places of worship and for townscape heritage. Heritage Lottery Fund, South East Team, 7 Holbein Place , London

SW1W 8NR Tel: 020 7591 6184
Email: enquire@hlf.org.uk
Website: www.hlf.org.uk

Ladbrokes in the Community Charitable Trust

The trust aims to work with a wide range of charities and good causes, helping raise funds and tailoring initiatives to meet the demands of local communities. Projects supported include those helping children, hospices and sports. Address: Ms Ros Barker, Ladbroke Racing Ltd, Imperial House, Imperial Drive, Harrow,

Middlesex,

HA2 7JW Tel: 0208 515 586

LankellyChase Foundation

The Lankelly Foundation and Chase Charity have merged to form the Lankelly Chase Foundation. Its main priorities include: arts, breaking the cycle of abuse and deprivation, developing communities, mental health issues, heritage, offenders; society; and children’s playschemes. There is also a short term programmme for asylum seekers/refugees. The LankellyChase Foundation, 2 The Court, High Street, Harwell, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0EY
Tel: 01235 820044
Website: http://www.lankelly-foundation.org.uk

Lloyds TSB Foundation

The Trustees’ policy is to support underfunded charities so people, especially disadvantaged or disabled people, can play a fuller role in the community. They support a wide range of activities which fall within the broad areas of Social and Community Needs, and Education and Training. The scheme operates on a national basis but there are also regional priorities:
To target funds at those areas in the region with the greatest need, including areas where there is deprivation and no government initiatives
To support BME voluntary groups
To support people returning to the community.
Address: South East Regional Office, Lloyds TSB Bank, 4 West Street, Havant PO9 1PE
Email: john.paton@lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk
Tel: 023 9248 0774 Fax: 023 9248 0796
Website: www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk/guidelines.html
www.lloydstsbfoundations.org.uk/regions/s_east.html

The Tudor Trust

Grants under Community Priority to renew the Social Fabric. The majority of Tudor’s grant-giving lies between £10,000 and £100,000. 7 Ladbroke Grove, London W11 3BD
Tel: 020 7727 8522 Fax: 020 7221 8522
Website: www.tudortrust.org.uk/index.htm

Unltd Millennium Award

Unltd Millennium Awards are cash awards plus support to help make ideas a reality. They provide advice, training, mentoring and other support services. Level 1 awards, from £500 to £5,000 to help make ideas become real projects. They are aimed at individuals or informal groups of people who want to set up new projects in their spare time. Level 2 awards, from £5,000 to £15,000, support projects that are already developed.
123 Whitecross Street, Islington, London EC1Y 8JJ
Tel: 0845 850 1122 Fax: 020 7566 1101
Email: info@unltd.org.uk
Website: www.unltd.org.uk

The Wates Foundation

Community Support & Development - To support activities facilitating access to and delivery of community services to those in need and to help develop the capacity of community organisations to deliver their services better. Grants of up to £25,000 a year for a maximum of three years. Brian Wheelwright, Director, The Wates Foundation, Wates House, Station Approach, LEATHERHEAD, Surrey KT22 7SW
Tel: 01372 861000 Fax: 01372 861252
E-mail: director@watesfoundation.org.uk
Website: www.watesfoundation.org.uk

The Young People’s Fund

The YPF will concentrate on the outcomes from the green paper ‘Every Child Matters ‘and on providing facilities and activities for young people out of school hours and in the holidays. There is £200 million available through the YPF across the UK over the next three years. In England , the sum is £157.5 million. For now, the YPF is still under consultation and sits under the New Opportunities Fund and so applicants should contact the New Opportunities Fund for more information. Young People’s Fund, New Opportunities Fund, 1 Plough Place, London

EC4A 1DE Tel: 020 7211 1957
Email: helen.coath@nof.org.uk
Website: www.nof.org.uk/default.aspx?tc=659&tct=1

UK Villages Community Kitty

The UKVillages Community Kitty awards grants of £50-£500 to community projects. To date they have supported a range of projects across the UK - from a knitting circle, to a playgroup needing toys, sports equipment for cubs, and support for several village halls and playing field committees - as well as a number of Heritage projects. UKVillages Ltd, 37 Church Street, Harston, Cambs,

CB2 5NP, UK Tel: 01223 874 500
Email: info@ukvillages.co.uk
Website: www.ukvillages.co.uk/articles.nsf/content/ukvkittyThese site are updated daily with hundreds of funding links:UK Funding Agencies
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