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Policies and Procedures
You can now download various model policies, procedures and contracts that are essential to most community and voluntary organisations from this page. All you need to do is adapt the document(s) to your own organisation. We also added useful links to websites which we recommend.
Governance
What is governance?
“The systems and processes concerned with ensuring the overall direction, effectiveness, supervision and accountability of an organisation.”Governance development is a key part of the effective running of voluntary and community organisations. The governments vision is for a future in which all voluntary and community organisations are better able to fulfil their missions and play a positive role in society through good governance practice. Governance development is a key part of the effective running of voluntary and community organisations.
The Governance Hub brings together people, information and ideas about governance in the voluntary and community sector,go to: http://www.governancehub.org.uk/Home/Resource%20Finder.shtml
Employment
Is your organisation considering employing a worker for the first time, to carry out some of the functions carried out so far voluntarily? If so there are a number of things you should consider. There are likely to be a wide range of implications you have not considered. Of course it will make your life easier having someone to carry out the tasks that need to be done, but employing someone gives you a whole new set of management and legal responsibilities.
More useful information including policies like induction, recruitment, training and development, expenses, harassment, disciplinary, complaints, appraisals etc can be found on
http://www.lvsc.org.uk/Templates/information.asp?NodeID=90165
http://www.navca.org.uk/about/navcapolicy/
Finance
A budget for a funding application explains how much it will cost to run your event or project. When you are planning a project you should try and write down everything that you might need to buy or pay for and find out how much it will cost.
Funding Applications
This section assists community groups to make funding applications.Writing a good application requires a lot of time. Becoming familiar with the thematic priorities and the funding agency guidelines is vital. Read through the current rules and regulations: these are the clauses designed to ensure that your application contains all of the necessary information. Talk through your proposal with peer groups and seniors, especially if this is your first application. Give your application a lot of thought. ·
- How to … write funding applications·
- How to … avoid common mistakes·
- How to … approach funders·
- How to … describe a project
See GOVERNANCE for constitutions, equal opportunities policy and child protection policies
See FINANCE for budgets
Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring is about systematically collecting information that will help you answer questions about your project. You can use this information to report on your project and to help you evaluate. Evaluation is about using monitoring and other information you collect to make judgements about your project. It is also about using the information to make changes and improvements.
http://www.ces-vol.org.uk/index.cfm?pg=40
Volunteers
The definition of volunteering used in the 1997 National Survey of Volunteering is " any activity which involves spending time, unpaid, doing something which aims to benefit someone (individuals or groups) other than or in addition to close relatives, or to benefit the environment".As sport is a large sector, with 106,000 voluntary or community clubs, 400 community sports networks, 49 county sports partnerships, 9 Sport England offices and many national partners - all with an interest in sport volunteering - the project is targeting specific organisations this year.
http://www.volunteering.org.uk/Resources/information/on-lineinformationsheets/
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