Resources

Accessible Venues | Asset Transfer | Business Support | Community Centres | Equalities | Finance & Funding | Governance| Human Resources| ICT | Jargon Buster | Legislation | Local & National Reports | Performance Improvement | Policies | Press & Media | Social Enterprise | Strategic | Volunteering

Listed below are a range of downloadable resources - we hope you find them useful.
If you have any suggestions for other information you would like to see on the website please email Sean Kenny - seank@voscur.org

Also visit our Frequently Asked Questions page, which includes a wide range of handy info and downloads.

Accessible Venues

• Download a list of accessible Bristol venues
• Accessible venues checklist - what does a venue need in place to be accessible?

Asset Transfer

• Resources and information from the Community Assets Conference, Bristol, May 2008

Business Support

• Submitting a Competitive Tender (NAVCA Circulation Feb 07)
• Procurement (NAVCA Circulation Feb 07)

Community Centres

• Information on Council and non-Council owned Community Centres in Bristol

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Equalities

• Support for BME workers in the voluntary and community sector (NAVCA Circulation Aug 06)
• Equalities Toolkit
• Equalities Resources (NAVCA Circulation Aug 07)
• There is a range of good practice documents and information on the Equalities Page of this website
• Also see the Volunteering section below

Finance & Funding

• Mistakes and How to Make Them - Guidance for Finance Workers (BDA Information Sheet June 06)
• Opening a Bank/Building Society Account (Voscur Information Sheet May 06 )
• Role of a Treasurer (Voscur Information Sheet May 06)
• Financial Procedures (Voscur Information Sheet May 06)
• VAT Issues in Delivering Services (NAVCA Circulation Aug/Sept 05)
• Full Cost Recovery – 'Quantifying your deliverables' (NAVCA Circulation Oct/Nov 06)
• Small fundraising events – managing legal risks on a shoestring (NAVCA Circulation Oct/Nov 06)
• European Funding in 2007-13 (NAVCA Circulation August 06)
• Winning New Funders & Satisfying Existing Ones (NAVCA Circulation August 06)
• Funding Resources (NAVCA Circulation Aug 07)
• Introduction to Full Cost Recovery presentation (Voscur July 2007)

Governance

• What is a Constitution? (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• A Model Constituiton (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• The Role of a Chairperson (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• The Role of a Treasurer (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• The Role of a Secretary (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• What is a Trustee? (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• The Role of the Board (Voscur Information Sheet Sept 06)
• Finding & Keeping Trustees (NAVCA Circulation August 06)
• Where to get a New Trustees Pack (NAVCA Circulation May 06)
• Governance & Organisational Structures - includes information on the new Community Interest Company and Charitable Incorporated Organisations structures (Governance Hub Sept 07)

Human Resources

• Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development Redundancy Factsheet (Jan 2008)
• NCVO have a resource called HRBANK which has an extensive list of sample and template policies including checklists and case studies. Their extensive bank of model Job Descriptions is also listed, specific ones are available on request.
• NJC Payscales 2008/09 (NAVCA Information sheet, word doc)
  
• Local Authority Mileage Rates (NAVCA Circulation Aug 07)

Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

• Plan your ICT (NAVCA Circulation Dec 07, word doc)
• Voscur's ICT Webpage

Voscur Jargon Buster

Download this Jargon Buster (updated Jan 2008) containing pages of acronyms and phrases. A handy guide to help you unravel all the jargon that puzzles and perplexes!

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Legislation

• Changes to the Minimum Wage; VAT Invoicing; Business Mark Legislation; Statutory Holiday Entitlement; Companies Act (October 2007)
• Legislation - websites with further information (Voscur Dec 06)
• Age Discrimination Act and Your Organisation (NAVCA Circulation August 06)
• Charities Act 2006 (NAVCA Circulation 07)
• Charities Act 2006 - What Trustees Need to Know summarises the key provisions of the Act and points the reader in the direction of other sources providing further guidance. An interactive version of the guide - which is particularly aimed at the trustees of smaller charities - is available on the Office of the Third Sector www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
• The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has written a small 7 page briefing document on the Charities Act 2006.
• The Work & Families Act 2006 (NAVCA Circulation Feb 07)

Performance Improvement

• Getting Customer/Client feedback (Voscur March 07)
• Performance Improvement Policy (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• Model Performance Improvement Policy (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• Benchmarking (Voscur Information Sheet March 07)
• Business Planning - A Rough Guide (Voscur Information Sheet March 07)

Policies

• How to Write an Environmental Policy (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• An Example of an Environmental Policy (Voscur Information Sheet July 07)
• What Policies should you have in place? (Voscur March 07)
• Accessible Information Policy (NAVCA Circulation Aug 06)
• View a range of Voscur's policies
• NAVCA (National Association of Voluntary & Community Action) Policies
• The C3 Website has some model policies and information.
• NCVO HRBANK has a range of model policies and checklists
• Greener Events Guide Checklist (Sustainability South West, May 2008)

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Press & Media

• How to write a Press Release - a Webinar from the Knight Foundation

Social Enterprise

• List of Social Enterprise Resources (NAVCA Circulation Dec 07, Word doc)

Strategic

• NACVS response to Government consultation on Local Area Agreements (NAVCA Circulation April 06)

Volunteering

• Improving and Supporting Diversity in your Volunteer Workforce (Voscur, Volunteering Bristol & CEMVO, June 2008) - pdf, 594kb

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