Information Sheets
A comprehensive guide to book-keeping that is simple and easy to understand
Getting Started
Running Your Organisation
- Developing a strategic plan
- The Business Plan
- Effective meetings
- Effective Annual General Meetings
- Quality
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Risk management
- Health & safety
- Equal opportunities
- Welsh language – legal context
- Insurance
- Data protection
- Community Action to tackle Climate Change
- Using freelance trainers and consultants
- Green Policy
- Environmental Sustainability Management Systems
- Impact and impact measurment
Working with Others
Volunteers
- Thinking about volunteering
- Developing a volunteer strategy
- Model volunteering policy
- Recruiting, selecting and inducting volunteers
- Recruiting Welsh speaking volunteers
- Diversity in volunteering
- How to retain volunteers
- Keeping volunteers safe
- Risk assessment – volunteers based at home
- Volunteering to work with vulnerable adults and children
- Criminal records checks
- Volunteers and the law
- Volunteers and welfare benefits
- Volunteer expenses
- Investing in Volunteers
- How to work with hard to place volunteers
- Involving young people as volunteers
- The Independant Safeguarding Authority
- Volunteer Drivers
Trustees and governance
Employing and Managing People
- Working in the voluntary sector
- Employing staff for the first time
- Drawing up a Job Specification
- Advertising your vacancy
- Selecting your candidate
- Producing a written statement
- Induction, training and development
- Supervision and appraisal
- Grievance
- Harassment
- Redundancy
- Health and safety policy
- Sickness policy
- Family friendly policies
- Maternity policy
- Paternity policy
- Adoption policy
- Right to request flexible working
- Equal opportunities policy
- Whislteblowing policy
- Retirement policy
- Disciplinary policy
Finding and Getting Money
- Developing a fundraising strategy
- Grants – fit for funding
- Applying to funders
- Accounting for volunteers' time in funding applications
- Sources of funding
- Small grants
- Lottery funding
- Trusts and foundations
- Welsh Assembly Government grant funding
- Non-devolved UK Government grant funding
- Europe
- Funding sources for health and social care projects
- Funding sources for sports projects
- Funding sources for arts projects
- Funding sources for environmental projects
- Funding for community buildings
- Funding for youth oriented projects
- Local Funding – Merthyr Tydfil
- Funding for places of worship
- Funding for International Projects
- Funding sources for climate change projects
- Loans
- Fundraising events
- Fundraising legacies
- Fundraising donations
- Procurement and Public Service Delivery
- Trading
- Giving (sources of funding)
- Tax effective giving
- Introduction to payroll giving
- Payroll fundraising
- Payroll giving consortia
- Introduction to Gift Aid
- Gift Aid Promotion
- Gift Aid Record Keeping
- Gift Aid FAQ
- Corporate funding
- Spatial European Teams
Managing Money
Assets
Promotion and Marketing
Campaining and Influencing
- Who represents me?
- Introduction to Welsh devolution and the Government of Wales Act 2006
- National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government
- Assembly business and committees
- Legislative Competence Orders
- Introduction to Assembly Measures
- The National Assembly for Wales Commission
- Petitioning the National Assembly for Wales
- The National Assembly for Wales – Basic facts and Glossary
- Local government information
- Planning a Campaign
- Campaigning and lobbying techniques
- Local Authority Plans and Strategies
- Local Government Scrutiny
- Town and Community Councils
