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Trusted suppliers

Our trusted suppliers are experts who can save your organisation time and money

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Finance

These suppliers can help with financial planning, insurance, employee benefits and more

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Brooks Financial

Brooks Financial provides tailored financial advice and employee benefits solutions to charities and voluntary organisations.

  • Financial management

Zurich

Zurich provide insurance for charities, social enterprises and community groups of all shapes and sizes

  • Financial management

HR and recruitment

These suppliers can help recruit and support your staff and volunteers

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Law and regulation

Atkinson HR Consulting

Atkinson HR Consulting offers a range of strategic HR services to help you recruit, retain and develop your people

  • Employing and managing staff

CharityJob

CharityJob is the UK’s largest online job board for charity and voluntary sector roles

  • Employing and managing staff

Roots HR CIC

Roots HR CIC specialise in providing human resources services for charities and the voluntary sector

  • Employing and managing staff

Supporting small charities: an update on our helpdesk

Get practical support from our helpdesk when you need it most.

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Why be part of a consortium?

Reasons for forming a consortium and examples of voluntary sector consortia

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Consortium operating models

The different ways that voluntary organisations can work together collectively to bid for and deliver public service contracts

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The stages of consortium development

Step-by-step guidance to help voluntary organisations develop a consortium

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Pre-start-up scoping and planning

Guidance on scoping and planning before you set up a voluntary-sector consortium

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Formation of working group

How to form the initial working group that will help partners set up a consortium

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Development funding

An outline of how much funding is required to establish a voluntary sector consortium, and some of the potential funding sources

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Stakeholder engagement

Why you need to engage stakeholders such as commissioners and local organisations in your consortium development, and how to involve them

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Operational development and consortium documents

An overview of the key policies and procedures that will support the operational running of a consortium

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Incorporation and establishment of interim board

A guide to becoming an incorporated company

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Membership recruitment and due diligence

How to formally launch your consortium and invite organisations to join

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Charity finance skills (1 day)

This course will help people with little or no financial background to feel confident in managing day-to-day charity finance

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

This practical course is specifically tailored to the voluntary sector. It’s designed to give you all the principles and practical tools you need to plan, deliver and evaluate your project successfully.

Data protection essentials (2 x 0.5 days)

This course will take you through the essentials of lawful data processing for charities and help improve your compliance with the law

Mentoring and coaching (0.5 day)

This course provides an introduction to the key differences between mentoring and coaching. You’ll learn how to use both skills effectively to develop and support staff, volunteers and clients

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

This course will give trustees an overview and understanding of charity governance, regulation and best practice

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

This course will revisit the core financial duties of a charity trustee and explore what it means to practice good financial governance

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

This course will introduce processes and tools to help ensure that decision-making is responsive to your environment and focused on the most important issues affecting your organisation

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

This course provides an introduction to the key principles of good volunteer management and how to apply them in your organisation

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in charity governance (2 x 0.5 days)

This course has been created by The Social Justice Collective to help you understand, address and embed equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into your governance practice

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

This course will develop your skills and help you use a marketing approach to recruit volunteers