Business Planning for Community Organisations – 14th July, Calderbridge. The session will teach you how to craft a business plan for your charity or social enterprise. Attendees will learn how to structure their business plan with all of the essential components, tailoring it to their organisation.
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Data protection basics for community organisations – Tuesday 15th July, online. This training session will teach community organisations in Cumbria the basics of data protection, including key legislation, both nationally and internationally. The session will also explain what impact leaving the EU has had on the UK’s data protections laws.
Join us for a session packed with tips, tools and resources to support the smooth running of your volunteer recruitment processes and the steps you can take as a Volunteer Lead to ensure your organisation is effective in attracting more volunteers to your organisation.
If you work with volunteers, sign up for our online Best Practice in Volunteer Management sessions. Join us for a session packed with tips, tools and resources to support with planning for volunteers as well as the steps you can take to ensure a more inclusive approach to volunteering within your organisation.
We’re delighted to hear easyfundraising has sent over £3.5m in funding to community organisations so far this year! Is your organisation getting a share? Find out how to get your hands on this free unrestricted funding ahead of the next payout in August.
We want to ensure that we are providing you with the support and services that you need. Our last sector survey revealed that funding/money is the biggest challenge the VCFSE sector in Cumbria faces. Our follow-up aims to dig deeper into this area, with questions seeking information we can use to provide additional support.
Tuesday 1st July, Whitehaven. This event provides a fantastic opportunity for local groups to directly engage with local and national funders and support groups regarding projects/funding requirements. Find out which organisations are attending on our website, and book yourself a morning or afternoon slot for a chat!
We’re working with easyfundraising to help the organisations in our network receive extra funding. Through easyfundraising everyday items bought from over 8,000 online retailers raises money. Over a year, just one person could raise £362 for their chosen good cause! Find out how to get your organisation involved.
We have a range of email newsletters – receive the latest news, events & updates on: Funding; General sector info for your area; Volunteering; Our Action for Health & Mental Health Provider Forum networks; Trustee network; + more, Sign up for individual newsletters and manage your subscriptions to our mailings, all in one place!
We can help you share your latest news & events! If you’ve got something you want us to share, send it in and we’ll add it to our weekly Useful Information post, getting what you’re up to in front of the VCFSE sector across Cumbria.
