This first edition of our Group Information Pack has been designed to help you with the setting-up and running of your group, club, society or registered charity. You might be newly formed, wanting help with the first steps to get your group ‘up and running’, or very established, and wishing to expand or become a registered charity.

Written and compiled by Sarah Fletcher and Beth Collins this comprehensive, 215 page guide covers the following areas:

:: Starting a group or organisation – the initial process
:: Volunteers, recruiting and retaining
:: Advertising and promoting your group
:: Financial procedures
:: SORP’s Statement of Recommended Practice
:: SORP – Charity Trustee requirements
:: Funding and fundraising
:: Full Cost Recovery
:: Committees
:: Events and Open Days
:: Quality Standards
:: Legal Requirements
:: Child protection policy
:: Example Policies
:: Organisation types

Included in the pack are:

:: Affiliation pack and membership form

:: Local Contacts & support

:: Frequently used acronyms and jargon

 

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Training Needs in the Peterborough Voluntary Sector

 

In January of 2007 PCVS undertook a local survey of training needs in the Peterborough Voluntary Sector. This report was commissioned by Capacity Builders as part of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough County Infrastructure Work.

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