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Organisational Development

Have questions or need support with business planning, monitoring and evaluation, research, employment law, governance, training needs and/or setting up?

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By governance we mean ‘the systems and processes concerned with ensuring the overall direction, effectiveness, supervision and accountability of an organisation’.

Taken from Governance Hub website

Organisation Development News and Assistance

Charity registration online
Organisations wishing to register with the Charity Commission can now complete and submit their application form online. Initially this service will only be available to organisations using approved governing documents. The process should be more flexible and easier to use than the manual form, and time taken to register should be reduced.
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The Governance Hub
Meeting the standards:Are your trustees working as well as they should be? There’s new free online help for trustees which focuses on the competencies set out in the Trustee and Management Committee National Occupational Standards.

Governance Hub Freephone Helpdesk: 0800 652 4886.
Email: governance.hub@ncvo-vol.org.uk.
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Leaders Together is a mentoring scheme which aims to increase the capacity of grassroots Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs) by tapping into the knowledge of mainstream voluntary sector organisations.

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ARVAC is pleased to announce the launch of Governance Pages - a new website that aims to present concise and accessible information on governance.
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Downloadable Resources

Click on links below for full details:

• Publication of the Charity Commission’s General Guidance on Public Benefit
• Charitable Incorporated Organisation
• Renumeration of trustees
• Criminal Record Checks

General Health & Safety Guidance
The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has put a large section of its bestselling Hazards of Work onto its website, with free access. Ranging from asbestos to young workers, the 31 chapters include extensive checklists, case studies and web resources.
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The Health and Safety Executive's Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare: A short guide for managers was revised in December 2007.
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HSE has a new mini-website specifically for governing body members (management committee/trustees/directors) in organisations of all sizes, to help them understand their health and safety duties and promote h&s at work.
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Updated guidance on health and safety at work for disabled people and their employers is available from HSE
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Taken from Sandy Adirondack and Charles Russell websites.

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1. Starting a New Group
2. Constitutions
3. Management Committees
4. Planning and Holding Meetings
5. Holding an Event
6. Marketing
7. Publicity Materials
8. Managing Volunteers
9. Recruiting Staff
10. Being a Good Employer
11. Insurance
12. Quality Assurance
13. Information Management
14. Business Planning
15. Cashflow and Budgeting
16. Book Keeping and Accounts
17. Charities and VAT

About Social Enterprises

a social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that...

Volunteers and the law

A readable guide to legal issues for volunteer managers.

Information on Criminal Records Bureau

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What is the Criminal Records Bureau?

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