Sustainable Funding 'Partners'
Since 2007 the Sustainable Funding Project has been working with a selection of infrastructure agencies or 'partners' to enable VCOs to become more sustainable. The 'partners' hosted a package of workshops and cascaded SFP's messages and tools across their regions. This phase of our project is now coming to an end, however we continue to work closely with our partners to pursue opportunities to cascade support in their areas.
- Basildon, Billericay and Wickford Council for Voluntary Service
- Birmingham Voluntary Service Council
- The Working Together Project
- Central London CVS Network
- Community Council of Devon
- Doncaster CVS
- East London CVS Network
- Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation
- High Peak CVS
- Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services
- Newark & Sherwood Community and Voluntary Service
Basildon, Billericay and Wickford Council for Voluntary Service
Website: www.bbwcvs.org.uk
Contact: Anthony King
Birmingham Voluntary Service Council (BVSC)
BVSC is a registered charity that works to support voluntary action in the city of Birmingham. BVSC provides information, advice and guidance to voluntary and community organisations. They also promote volunteering by finding individuals appropriate voluntary work and helping organisations to find volunteers.
Website: www.bvsc.org
Contact: Maggie Hawker
The Working Together Project
Working Together Project (WTP) is the leading provider of training and learning to charities, community groups, social enterprises and the public sector in Sussex. WTP works in partnership to deliver practical, relevant, professional and friendly training that is in high demand. The broad areas of training that WTP cover are: leadership and management, governance, working with people, finance and law, administrative skills, fundraising and income generation, marketing and IT skills. WTP provides open courses, accredited training, fully funded bespoke training with community groups, and mentoring. WTP can also be commissioned to provide bespoke in-house training or facilitation, training needs analysis for team development, action learning and consultancy.
Website: www.workingtogetherproject.org.uk
Contact: Paul Bramwell - paul@workingtogetherproject.org.uk
Central London CVS Network
Website: www.clcvs.net
Contact: Lisa Charalambous
Community Council of Devon (CCD)
The Community Council of Devon is the Rural Community Council for Devon. CCD is an independent charitable company founded in 1961 and incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee in 1999. Their vision is of active rural communities shaping their own futures with improved opportunity and quality of life for all. Their mission is to strive to make this happen through direct work with communities, local knowledge, networks, professional services, and an influencing role.
The CCD's main areas of work at present are covered by community structure, community planning and community regeneration with two cross-cutting themes of social inclusion and influencing. The CCD runs a series of projects and activities focusing on the needs of rural communities and rural dwellers.
The CCD's partnership work with the Sustainable Funding Project centres around demonstrating the advantage of the sustainable funding approach to community groups and organisations and enabling with them to implement a sustainable funding strategy. Their wider social enterprise work centres around working with rural community shops and village halls.
Website: www.devonrcc.org.uk
Website page on sutainable funding
Contact: Dawn Eckhart
Doncaster CVS
Working within the Social Enterprise Development Team based at Doncaster CVS, two Platform to Enterprise Development Workers provide advice and guidance to groups and organisations that are looking to enhance their sustainability by diversifying their income streams. The team provides a mixture of one-to-one, outreach and workshop based support.
Website: www.doncastercvs.org.uk
Contact: Caroline Temperton
East London CVS Network
Website: www.elcvsnetwork.org.uk
Contact: Kristine Wellington
Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation (GMCVO)
GMCVO is the support (infrastructure) organisation for the voluntary sector in the sub-region of Greater Manchester. GMCVO's aim is to strengthen the voluntary sector, build bridges with other sectors, and influence local and national policy. Their work is representing, promoting and developing voluntary organisations, working in partnership with other organisations doing similar work.
Website: www.gmcvo.org.uk
Contact: Karen Rigg
High Peak CVS
Website: www.highpeakcvs.org
Contact: Esther Jones
Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS)
Website: www.lcvs.org.uk
Contact: Ged Simpson
Newark & Sherwood Community and Voluntary Service
Newark & Sherwood CVS Work with small to large community groups, charities and Social Enterprises. They aim to enable groups to access different funding streams through supporting with business planning, funding strategies, searches and help with application forms.
Their Moneyspinner Newsletter is sent out twice a year and the Moneyspinner website is also available for information and searches with a Nottinghamshire focus.
Newark & Sherwood CVS also deliver training around funding issues and sustainability across North Nottinghamshire.
Website: www.cvsmoneyspinner.org
Contact: Jo Butler
If you are interested in becoming a partner, please contact us at sfp@ncvo-vol.org.uk or on 020 7520 2519.
Advice and support
- Funding and finance
- Coping with cuts
- Addressing needs
- Strategy
- Impact
- Managing change
- Planning for the future
- Involving people
- Public Service Delivery
- Governance and leadership
- Compact Advocacy programme
- Campaigning and influencing policy
- Collaborative working
- ICT (information and communication technology)
- Climate change
- Infrastructure
- Innovation
- People, HR and employment
