Our Community Development Team works with community groups and local and national charities. We provide information, advice and guidance around the complexities of running a group or charity.

What we do:

• New Groups – Advice on how to set up committees, constitutions (including the new charitable incorporated organisation) , policies, meetings and action plans.
• Group Maintenance – Help with AGMs, EGMs, amendments to constitutions, policies and general advice, guidance & mentoring.
• Funding – Assistance with sourcing funding opportunities, advice on funding guidelines and help with funding applications (including acting as a reference or even red penning a bid).
• Trustees and Committees – Support to volunteers on trustee and committee issues.
• Events – Organise various events for the benefit of the diverse communities in the areas we serve, such as our Older People’s Network meeting at least 4 times a year to discuss key issues for older people’s group leaders, or the twice yearly welfare meetings with Citizens Advice Bureaux about benefit charges, worklessness & economic pressures.
• Publication – Provide regular publications containing information of both local and national importance to the Voluntary Sector.
• Training– Providing both groups, individual & bespoke training. Click here for further details.