Flintshire Local Voluntary Council

Here you’ll find a  series of useful information sheets written especially for voluntary organisations. These sheets are regularly updated.

1. Getting Started

• 1.1 First Steps – from idea to action
• 1.2 Involving the community
• 1.3 Involving service users
• 1.4 Planning your work
• 1.5 Choosing legal structures
• Charitable status
• 1.6 Where to go for help Model Constitution for setting up a small charity

2. Running your organisation

• 2.1 Developing a strategic plan
• 2.2 The Business Plan Effective meetings
• 2.3 Effective Annual General Meetings
• 2.4 Quality Monitoring and evaluation
•  2.5 Risk Management
• 2.6Health and Safety
• 2.7 Equal opportunities
•  2.8 Welsh Language – legal context
•  2.9 Insurance 2.10 Data Protection
• 2.11 Community Action to Tackle Climate Change
•  2.12 Where to go for help on action on climate change 
• 2.13 Using Freelance Trainers and Consultants
• 2.14 Green Policy
• 2.15 Environmental Sustainability Management Systems
• 2.16 Impact and impact measurement

3. Working with others

• 3.1 Consensus building
• 3.2 Community participation and engagement methods
• 3.3 Partnership
• 3.4 Compacts Customer Care Networks
• 3.5 Commissioning Contracts
• 3.6 Wales’ International Development Work
• 3.7 Public law remedies – challenging decisions made by public bodies

4. Volunteers

• 4.1 Thinking about volunteering
• 4.2 Developing a Volunteer Strategy
• 4.3 Model volunteering policy
• 4.4 Recruiting, selecting and inducting volunteers
• 4.5 Recruiting Welsh Speaking volunteers
• 4.6 Diversity in volunteering
• 4.7 How to retain volunteers
• 4.8 Keeping volunteers safe
• 4.9 Risk assessment – volunteers based at home
• 4.10 Volunteering to work with vulnerable adults and children
• 4.11Criminal records checks
• 4.12 Volunteers and the law
• 4.13 Volunteers and Welfare Benefits
• 4.14 Volunteer Expenses
• 4.15 Investing in Volunteers
• 4.16 How to work with hard to place volunteers
• 4.17 Involving young people as volunteers
• 4.18 The Independent Safeguarding Authority
• 4.19 Volunteer Drivers
• 4.20 The economic value of volunteers
• 4.21 Employer Supported Volunteering

5. Trustees and governance

• 5.1 Principles of governance
• 5.2 Trustee duties and responsibilities
• 5.3 Governing Body Structures and Honorary Officers
• 5.4 Recruitment, selection and induction
• 5.5 Training and Development for Trustees
• .6 Working with the Chief Officer
• 5.7 Liability of Trustees and Governing Body
• 5.8 Members Trustee Indemnity Insurance
• 5.9 Winding up – the steps involved and alternative option

6. Employing and managing people

• 6.1 Working in the Voluntary Sector
• 6.2 Employing staff for the first time
• 6.3 Drawing up a Job Specification
• 6.4 Advertising your vacancy
• 6.5 Selecting your candidate
• 6.6 Producing a written statement
• 6.7 Induction, Training and Development
• 6.8 Supervision and Appraisal
• 6.9 Grievance 6.10 Harassment
• 6.11 Redundancy Policy
• 6.12 Health and Safety Policy
• 6.13 Sickness Policy
• 6.14 Family Friendly Policies
• 6.15 Maternity Policy
• 6.16 Paternity Policy
• 6.17 Adoption Policy
• 6.18 Right to request flexible working
• 6.19 Equal Opportunities Policy
• 6.20 Whistleblowing Policy
• 6.21 Retirement Policy
• 6.22 Disciplinary Policy

7. Finding and Getting Money

• 7.1 Developing a fundraising strategy
• 7.2 Grants- fit for funding
• 7.3 Applying to funders
• 7.4 Accounting for volunteers’ time in funding
• 7.5 Sources of Funding
• 7.6 Small Grants
• 7.7 Lottery funding
• 7.8 Trusts and Foundations
• 7.9 Welsh Assembly Government Grant Funding
• 7.10 Non-devolved UK Government Grant Funding
• 7.11 Europe Funding Sources for Health and Social Care projects
• 7.12 Funding Sources for Sports Projects
• 7.13 Funding Sources for Arts Projects
• 7.14 Funding Sources for Environmental Projects
• 7.15 Funding for Community Buildings
• 7.16 Funding for Youth Orientated Projects
• 7.17 Local Funding – Flintshire Funding for places of worship
• 7.18 Funding for International Projects
• 7.19 Funding Sources for climate change projects
• 7.20Loans
• 7.21 Fundraising Events
• 7.22 Fundraising Legacies
• 7.23 Fundraising Donations
• 7.24 Introduction to Procurement
• 7.25 Introduction to Tendering 
• 7.25 Developing a Successful Tender
• 7.26 Costing your Tender
• 7.27 Giving (Sources of Funding)
• 7.28 Tax effective giving
• 7.29 Introduction to Payroll Giving
• 7.30 Payroll fundraising
• 7.31 Payroll Giving Consortia
• 7.32 Introduction to Gift Aid
• 7.33 Gift Aid Promotion
• 7.34 Gift-Aid Record Keeping
• 7.35 Gift Aid FAQ
• 7.36 Corporate funding
• 7.37 Spatial European Teams
• 7.38 Working Together to Raise Income

8. Managing Money

• 8.1 Setting up a financial system
• 8.2 Setting a budget
• 8.3 Full cost recovery
• 8.4 Monitoring expenditure and budget
• 8.5 Financial controls
• 8.6 Annual Accounts and audit
• 8.7 VAT Payroll Reserves policy
• 8.8 Pensions Avoiding fraud

9. Assets

• 9.1 Buildings
• 9.2 Running Buildings
• 9.3 Land
• 9.4 Information Technology
• 9.5 Vehicles
• 9.6 Intellectual Property

10. Promotion and Marketing

• 10.1 Communications and marketing plan
• 10.2 Creating effective marketing and publicity materials
• 10.3 Preparing newsletters
• 10.4 Working with the media
• 10.5 Effective press releases
• 10.6 The annual report
• 10.7 Website development and maintenance
• 10.8 Accessible formats and languages
• 10.9 New and Social Media in the Voluntary Sector

11. Campaigning and influencing

• 11.1 Who represents me?
• 11.2 Introduction to Welsh devolution and and the Government of Wales Act 2006
• 11.3 National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government
• 11.4 Assembly business and committees
• 11.5 Introduction to Assembly Measures
• 11.6 The National Assembly for Wales Commission
• 11.7 Petitioning the National Assembly for Wales
• 11.8 The National Assembly for Wales – basic facts and glossary
• 11.9 Local Government Information
• 11.10 Planning a Campaign
• 11.11 Campaigning and lobbying techniques
• 11.12Local Authority Plans and Strategies
• 11.13 Local Government Scrutiny
• 11.14 Town and Community Councils

12. Climate Change

• 12.1 Introducing Climate Change
• 12.2 Why Climate Change Issues are Important for the Third Sector
• 12.3 Climate change as part of sustainable development
• 12.4 Climate Change Social Justice
• 12.5 Climate change and environmental justice
• 12.6 Climate change and energy
• 12.7 Climate change and housing
• 12.8 Climate change and livelihoods
• 12.9 Climate change and health
• 12.10 Climate change and transport
• 12.11 Reduce your organisation or group’s carbon footprint
• 12.12 Take local community level action on climate change