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April 21, 2009
The Value of Outcomes
This article has been edited from two articles that appeared in NAVCA’s Circulation, 407 – February/March 2009, under the title: Infrastructure bodies and outcomes policy. The articles were written by Natalie Thompson, Voluntary Action Sheffield, and Anastasia Mihailidou and Tim Wilson, from Charities Evaluation Services.
If you would like more information about the support available from CES, you can get in touch with Anastasia Mihailidou, performance Consultant: anastasia@ces-vol.org.uk or 020 7078 9380
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The Property Law Club
Are you responsible for your charity’s property?
Specially designed to provide up-to-date information for those responsible for managing their property and all the legal requirements relating to acquiring, owning, occupying and disposing of property The Directory of Social Change has launched a new service called the Property Law Club.
For an annual subscription members meet five times a year for half day workshops, networking and lunch to share, obtain knowledge and discuss concerns around property management for their charity.
Property Law experts:
Interactive workshops led by a senior lawyer from Russell-Cooke’s Charity Team, will give members time to bring their individual queries and concerns to the group.
Your annual subscription includes:
Five topical workshops and networking lunch
A chance to keep up to date with property law matters
A monthly Legal Update email from the Charity Team at Russell-Cooke
Direct access to a specialist who can help you with your immediate queries
The opportunity to bring ideas and topics to workshops
In strict confidence, a chance to discuss property issues that impact upon you or
your charity
Networking opportunities and support from fellow members of the group. The option to substitute another member from your organisation if you cannot
To find out more visit the DSC website at: www.dsc.org.uk/Training/Law/@32293
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April 20, 2009
Plan for Success
The £6k Resilience Grant offered to Changeup Consortia by CapacityBuilders spurred a wave of activity at a time when many of us were already busy preparing reports and monitoring forms for the financial year end. However, despite this, across the East London sub region a number of innovative activities and mini projects were delivered that included; recession focused workshops and seminars, surveys to establish the effects of the recession on frontline organisations and capacity building volunteer centre staff to enable them to deal with the influx of professional volunteers who have been made redundant as a result of the recession.
Sub Regional Activities
The East London CVS Network used its £6k to develop a toolkit entitled ‘Tools for Success’ and with 7 out of our 10 boroughs contributing £1,000 from their Resilience Grants, we were able to produce 8,000 CD-Roms and give them free of charge to the majority of voluntary and community organisations based in the 7 contributing boroughs.
ELN Toolkit
An interactive CD Rom, Tools for Success allows users to drill down to the essence of what really matters the most in an economic downturn. Posing challenging questions like, ‘Do you manage your money or does it manage you?’ and ‘If your newsletter, website and staff look shabby, will funders think your organisation is too?’ the CD Rom offers over 150 pages of information, exercises and resources.
Gratitude
Pulling the toolkit together in such a short space of time was largely enabled by the specialist VCO’s such as the Charities Evaluation Service, the Tool Factory, the Media Trust and many others, who gave ELN permission to tweak and re-produce their existing resources. So we would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who provided not only resources, but their time, money and commitment that enabled the production of the CD-Rom.
To find out more information about the CD-Rom contact Andrea Chott on: 020 8519 – 9500 or email: andrea.chott@elcvsnetwork.org.uk for more information.
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