RESOURCES AND GUIDES

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Community Delivery of Local Place Plans

This guide is designed to support your community through the process of developing a Local Place Plan.

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Cost of living crisis and volunteering

Managing your Volunteering Programme in a Cost of Living Crisis.

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Governance Handbook Example

All information within the trustee handbook should reflect the information in the organisation’s governing document.

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Seven ways to speed up your application for charitable status

Top tips to help you fill out your application correctly.

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How to choose the right charitable purposes for your organisation

Choosing the right charitable purposes for your organisation is vital to make sure you achieve charitable status.

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YouthVIP Toolkit: Including Young Volunteers

The toolkit provides practical support and guidance for groups and organisations to include young volunteers.

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Community Shares

Interactive tool to guide you through every step of the process of issuing community shares.

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Community-led action on vacant and derelict land

A handy guide to help communities bring unloved places back into use

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Board member skills audit

A guide to audit the skills of board members/trustees.

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Example treasurer role description

A guide to create a role description for a new board treasurer.

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Example secretary to the board role description

A guide to create a role description for a new board secretary.

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Example chair of board role description

A guide to create a role description for a new board chair.

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Example board member role description

A guide to create a role description for a new board member.

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Our Place

Website supporting and promoting the benefits of place and place-based working.

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Human Rights and Associated Words and Phrases guide

Information and glossary on organisations with connected duties and purposes.

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Applying ethical research principles

A resource to support research active third sector organisations navigate ethical considerations.

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Volunteering and claiming benefits

What to do if you claim benefits and do voluntary work

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Men’s Sheds toolkit

A toolkit for the development and sustainability of Sheds in the UK and Ireland.

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Business Plan Template

A comprehensive and detailed template to allow you to develop a business plan for your social enterprise.

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Impact Evaluation

How to develop and evaluation approach to make sure you are achieving your social aims.

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Undertaking Market Research

Some tools, techniques, and types of market research that a social enterprise might use.

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Understanding Your Market

How to define, test, and research your market in a meaningful way.

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Trading Subsidiary

What is a trading subsidiary and the things to consider about setting one up.

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The Social Enterprise Code

A simple example of a code that can be used within your social enterprise.

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SWOT Analysis Template

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats analysis tool and how to create one.

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Simple Cost Benefit Analysis

How to generate a simple cost benefit analysis when considering spending money in your social enterprise.

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Questionnaires And Surveys

Questionnaires and surveys: the differences and how to design them for meaningful results.

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Profit and Loss

An introduction to profit and loss, what they mean, how to calculate them, and why they are important.

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Problem Solving

An introductory problem-solving technique you can use within your social enterprise.

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Legal Structures For Social Enterprise

An overview of common legal structures for social enterprises, at a glance.

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Pricing Your Product Or Service

What to consider and how to develop the pricing for your product or service.

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Presenting Your Ideas To Others

An introduction to presenting your ideas to others and points to consider.

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PESTLE Analysis

What is PESTLE and how to use it to survey the external world in which your social enterprise operates.

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Meetings Visioning And Project Planning

A tool to help meetings, visioning, and project planning for your social enterprise.

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Managing Conflict

Common causes of conflict and resolution through compromise and problem solving.

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Leadership Styles

Example leadership styles that may be appropriate for you and your social enterprise.

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Growth Plans

What is a growth plan and what should your social enterprises growth plan contain.

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Good Governance

The core principles of Good Governance in any social enterprise or charity.

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Gift Aid

What is Gift Aid, who can claim it, what can be claimed, and how to go about registering for it.

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Focus Groups

What are Focus Groups and how you can create them for the benefit of your social enterprise.

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Fitting With Regional Economic Plans

Why it is important your social enterprises plans and projection fit in with regional economic plans.

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Health, Safety, and Environment Risk Assessment

What do I need for Health, Safety and Environment when I first start my social enterprise.

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Developing Your Workforce

How to produce a comprehensive plan for the development of a social enterprise’s employees and volunteers.

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Developing New Products Innovation

What factors you need to consider when developing new products for your social enterprise.

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Developing Digital Capabilities

What digital capabilities does my social enterprise need, and what do I need to consider?

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Developing A Marketing Strategy

How to develop a Marketing Strategy that is appropriate for your social enterprise.

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Decide On A Bank Account

What to think about when setting up a bank account for your social enterprise.

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Creating A Positive Culture

Understanding your social enterprise’s culture, how to shape it and the factors that influence it.

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Collaboration

What is collaboration and the behaviours and skills to achieve it in your organisation.

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Cash Flow

How to work out your cash flow, and why it’s important to understand it.

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