Useful Sites

Useful Websites and Publications

Websites
Publications

Useful Websites

DEVELOP Enhancing Community Support: a registered charity set up to develop and enhance the community support groups within B&NES and Wiltshire. DEVELOP offers a range of services to voluntary organisations and community groups to support the development of their organisations, help them deliver their services more effectively and ensure their long term viability and sustainability.
www.developecs.org.uk

www.charity-commission.gov.uk Help, guidance and answers to your questions.

www.navca.org.uk/services/trustees. Chair and trustee support, including governance resources.

www.ncvo-vol.org.uk National Council for Voluntary Organisations. A range of resources for you, including a section for people in small voluntary organisations.

www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/governanceandleadership The Trustee and Governance Information Centre has been launched. It provides a wealth of information relating to governance and trusteeship.

www.trusteenet.org.uk Information and signposting for trustees. Click on 'Resources' on homepage to sign up for e-newsletters.

www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk Comprehensive funding information and resources.

www.fit4funding.org.uk Help and advice for community groups and voluntary organisations seeking funding.

www.ces-vol.org.uk Provides free information on evaluation and quality including information on PQASSO - a quality and evaluation system for the voluntary sector.

www.dsc.org.uk Very useful for publications, training and news.

www.sandy-a.co.uk Sign up for legal updates.

www.smallcharities.org.uk The Small Charities Coalition exists to help small charities access the skills, experience and resources they need to achieve their aims.

www.trusteeworks.org.uk Trusteeworks provides some useful resources for trustees (see under ‘For volunteers’)

Useful Publications

'Voluntary but not Amateur' a guide for voluntary organisations and community groups. You can buy it from www.dsc.org.uk or borrow a copy from the Voluntary Sector Collection at Bath Library

Managing in Tough Times - a booklet produced by the West of England Consortium, funded by Capacitybuilders. It will help you to identify and assess current risks and manage and adjust to change. Managing in Tough Times

Trustee Guide to Legal and Effective Campaigning - A guide for charity trustees from NCVO "outlines both what is required by the law and what is good practice in the development and implementation of effective campaigns". Download Trustee Guide to Campaigning and Influencing.

Leading Health and Safety - Trustees are responsible for ensuring adherence to a wide range of specific health and safety regulations. Trustees should therefore take steps to check their obligations and ensure compliance with requirements specific to their charity. A publication has been produced by the Institute of Directors. Download a copy of Leading health and safety at work.

Young Trustees

The Charity Commission are promoting the role of younger trustees and have produced some research and guidance to help your organisation engage with younger people: http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Publications/rs23.aspx
Analysis of the Charity Commission's information on charity trustees shows that young people, defined as 18-24 year-olds, represent 0.5% of the trustee population across England and Wales, a figure that has remained the same over the past five years1 . Most of these young trustees are at the upper end of this age group. Yet this same age group represents around 12% of the adult population across the two countries. Further, many of these young trustees are potentially quite isolated as 80% of them are the sole young trustee on their charity's board.
The majority of young trustees are trustees of charities that have education/training as a charitable purpose and children/young people as the charity's main beneficiary class. This would indicate that most of the charitable sector still has a need to recognise the benefits of involving young people in their governance arrangements.

Voluntary Sector Collection at B&NES Library. In partnership with B&NES Library, Develop has created the 'Voluntary Sector Collection' at Bath Central Library. The books available in this collection can be borrowed by anyone with a current library card and can be accessed through your local branch or the mobile library. A list of current titles is below:

Funding

• Complete Fundraising Handbook - Nina Botting & Michael Norton - Pub DSC
• Writing Better Funding Applications - Mike Eastwood & Michael Norton - Pub DSC

Governance

• The Board Answer Book- Tesse Akpeki
• The Board's Responsibility for Appraising the Chief Executive - Dorothy Dalton
• Boards That Work - David Fishel - Pub DSC
• Business and Strategic Planning for Voluntary Organisations - Alan Lawrie - Pub DSC 2007
• Charity Accounting: a practical guide - Editor Kate Sayer - Pub DSC 2003
• Charities Act 2006 What Trustees need to Know published by the Cabinet Office May 2007
• Charity Treasurers Handbook - Gareth G Morgan - Pub DSC
• Charity Trustees Handbook - Mike Eastwood - Pub DSC
• Code of Governance Toolkit
• Complete Guide to Creating and Managing New Projects for Voluntary Organisations by Alan Lawrie
• From Asking to Earning - Experiences of Trading - Henry Palmer & Adam Mornement.
• Good Trustee Guide (the) Ed. Peter Dyer 2008
• Good Financial Management Training Guide - Paul Palmer
• Just About Managing: Effective management for voluntary organisations and community groups - Sandy

Adirondack - Pub LVS
• Living Policy: A Complete Guide to Creating and Implementing Policy in Voluntary Organisations by Becky

Forrester et al.
• NOS for Trustees and Charities
• One in a Million a user friendly guide to trusteeship for trustees, management committee members and

those who work with them. - Gudrun Limbrick
• Practical Monitoring and Evaluation - CES 2005
• Reducing the Risks: A Guide to Trustee Liabilities by James Sinclair Taylor (2nd ed 2007)
• Tools for Tomorrow: a practical guide to strategic planning for voluntary organisations. NCVO
• Your Chair and Board: a survival guide and toolkit for CEO's - ACEVO 2008

Information Management/ICT

• How to Provide Information Well - Celia Hayfield - Pub. National Information Forum
• ICT Survival Guide for Trustees - Dr Simon Davey - Pub NCVO 2008

Legal

• Voluntary but not Amateur: A guide to the law for voluntary organisations and community groups - Ruth

Hayes & Jacki Reason - Pub DSC 8th Edition.

Personnel/HR

• Charity and Voluntary Workers A guide to health and safety at work - Pub HSE (2nd edition)
• Good Employment Guide- Lucy McLynn
• Core Coaching - Sheridan Maguire - Pub DSC 2008
• The Health & Safety Handbook For Voluntary and Community Organisations - Al Hinde, Charlie Kavanagh -

Pub Dir of Social Change
• Involving Young People - Tesse Akpeki
• Recruiting a New Chief Executive - Dorothy Dalton
• Recruiting and Supporting Black and Minority Ethnic Trustees - Tesse Akpeke
• Trustee Recruitment Toolkit

To reserve any of these books Tel: 01225 39 40 41 or visit http://www.librarieswest.org.uk/