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Mantell Gwynedd has a good library of information to aid the work of the Third Sector.

If you can't find the information you require, please fill in our Enquiry Form.

For a list of Publications & Guidance that are useful for voluntary organisations are available on The Charity Commission for England and Wales’ website.

Welsh Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA

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
1.6 Charitable status
1.7 Where to go for help
1.8 Model Constitution for setting up a small charity

2.Running your organisation

2.1 Developing a strategic plan
2.2 The Business Plan
2.3 Effective meetings
2.4 Effective Annual General Meetings
2.5 Quality
2.6 Monitoring and evaluation
2.7 Risk management
2.8 Health & safety
2.9 Equal opportunities
2.10 Welsh language - legal context
2.11 Insurance
2.12 Data protection
2.13 Community Action to tackle Climate Change
2.13.1 Where to go for help on action on climate change
2.14 Using freelance trainers and consultants
2.15 Green policy
2.16 Environmental Sustainability management systems
2.17 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
3.5 Customer care
3.6 Networks
3.7 Commissioning
3.8 Contracts
3.9 Wales’ International Development Network
3.10 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
4.8.1 Risk assessment - volunteers based at home
4.9 Volunteering to work with vulnerable adults and children
4.10 Criminal records checks
4.11 Volunteers and the law
4.12 Volunteers and welfare benefits
4.13 Volunteer expenses
4.14 Investing in Volunteers
4.15 How to work with hard to place volunteers
4.16 Involving young people as volunteers
4.18 Volunteer Drivers
4.19 The economic value of volunteers
4.20 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
5.6 Working with the chief officer
5.7 Liability of trustees and governing body members
5.8 Trustee indemnity insurance
5.9 Winding up - the steps involved and alternative options

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
6.14.1 Maternity policy
6.14.2 Paternity policy
6.14.3 Adoption policy
6.14.4 Right to request flexible working
6.15 Equal opportunities policy
6.16 Whistleblowing policy
6.17 Retirement policy
6.18 Disciplinary policy

7.Finding and getting money

7.1 Developing a fundraising strategy
7.2 Grants - fit for funding
7.3 Applying to funders
7.3.1 Accounting for volunteers' time in funding applications
7.4 Sources of funding
7.4.1 Small grants
7.4.2 Lottery funding
7.4.3 Trusts and foundations
7.4.4 Welsh Assembly Government grant funding
7.4.5 Non-devolved UK Government grant funding
7.4.6 Europe
7.4.7 Funding sources for health and social care projects
7.4.8 Funding sources for sports projects
7.4.9 Funding sources for arts projects
7.4.10 Funding sources for environmental projects
7.4.11 Funding for community buildings
7.4.12 Funding for youth oriented projects
7.4.13 Local funding - Cardiff
7.4.13 Local funding - Carmarthenshire
7.4.13 Local funding - Ceredigion
7.4.13 Local funding - Conwy
7.4.13 Local funding - Flintshire
7.4.13 Local funding - Merthyr Tydfil
7.4.13 Local funding - Neath Port Talbot
7.4.13 Local funding - Powys
7.4.13 Local funding - RCT
7.4.13 Local funding - Vale of Glamorgan
7.4.13 Local funding - Wrexham
7.4.14 Funding for places of worship
7.4.15 Funding for International Projects
7.4.16 Funding sources for climate change projects
7.5 Loans
7.6.1 Fundraising events
7.6.2 Fundraising legacies
7.6.3 Fundraising donations
7.7 Introduction to procurement
7.7.1 Introduction to tendering
7.7.2 Developing a successful tender
7.7.3 Costing your tender
7.8 Trading
7.9 Giving (sources of funding)
7.10 Tax effective giving
7.10.1 Introduction to payroll giving
7.10.2 Payroll fundraising
7.10.3 Payroll giving consortia
7.10.4 Introduction to Gift Aid
7.10.5 Gift Aid Promotion
7.10.6 Gift Aid Record Keeping
7.10.7 Gift Aid FAQ
7.11 Corporate funding
7.12 Spatial European Teams
7.13 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
8.8 Payroll
8.9 Reserves
8.10 Pensions
8.11 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

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 - impacts on vulnerable groups
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

For a list of Publications & Guidance that are useful for voluntary organisations are available on The Charity Commission for England and Wales’ website.

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