University of Worcester seeks mentor volunteers
The Centre for Inclusive Learning Support at the University of Worcester is recruiting mentors to an exciting and prestigious European project, Validating Mentoring (VM2). The pr...

Risk Assessment guide for charities
One of a series of "Made Simple" guides, "Risk assessment made simple" can be downloaded free from Sayer Vincent's website at www.sayervincent.co.uk

Worcestershire County Council announces grants to voluntary and community sector organisations
Worcestershire County Council has released details of the successful applicants to Round 1 of its community grants and strategic grants programmes for the voluntary and community s...

How does your charity measure up?
The Charity Commission has today published an updated version of The Hallmarks of an Effective Charity.  The six hallmarks are: 1. Clear about purposes and direction; using...

New from the Charity Commission
The Charity Commission has recently published new guidance for people wishing to make complaints about charities.  CC47, Complaints about charities, is available to download f...

PQASSO gets award!
Martin Punaks is celebrating a fantastic achievement by Charities Evaluation Services. He writes: "Charities Evaluation Services have received the Effectiveness Award a...

New PQASSO 3rd Edition
On 25th June 2008 Charities Evaluation Services launched their 3rd Edition of PQASSO (Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations).  PQASSO is the most used qua...

Top class employment training
ACAS are running a range of courses on human resource issues.  Many organisations in both the third sector and independent sector are having to handle increasingly complex sit...

Don't miss out on essential training on collaborative and partnership working on 20th May
For further information on another opportunity to learn all about Collaborative and Partnership Working from legal structures expert Charlie Cattell, see the Worcestershire Infrast...

Survey
Herefordshire Infrastructure Consortia are very keen to understand what difference the advice and support has meant for you as a voluntary or community group and the kinds of servi...

Positive Activities Grants in Worcestershire
Worcestershire County Councillors will be able to continue to help voluntary groups, community groups and charities on their own patch. Following the success of last year’...

Revised Charity Commission publications
A number of key Charity Commission publications have been revised recently.  These include CC3 The Essential Trustee:  what you need to know; CC9 Speaking Out - Campaigni...

Classes Lost in Adult Learning
1,400,000 adults in England have lost their classes in the last two years according to NIACE, the national voice for adult learners. Are you one of them? NIACE wants to hear your s...

Briefings on successful procurement and negotiation published
Acevo has published four online briefings covering all aspects of ‘Successful Procurement and Negotiation’ after a six month research project in partnership with the De...