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Funding Communities, Adding Value: Community development approaches to grant giving

Oct 8

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A community development  approach to funding means an open, transparent and fair approach that meets the needs of the community, as identified by the community that the grant fund is targeted at.

Funding Communities, Adding Value will help local funders be more effective at in the current challenging climate.

Drawing on Community Development Foundation’s (CDF’s) wealth of experience in the field, this new funding guide talks you through every aspect of CD-based funding:

  • Promotion, application and assessment
  • Delivery
  • Monitoring
  • Project and programme evaluation and learning
  • Project and organization sustainability

Click here for the Report

Social Return on Investment

Sep 16

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As part of a package of support from Government to help maximise the social value the third sector creates, the Office of the Third Sector (OTS) has published three tailored guides to Social Return on Investment (SROI), which supplement A guide to Social Return on Investment, published in May 2009.

The guides are part of the OTS Measuring Social Value project, which aims to encourage wider use of SROI, through making it more accessible and more cost effective for organisations and more attractive to investors, funders and commissioners.

‘Social Return on Investment – an introduction’ gives an overview of SROI, what it can do for organisations, commissioners and investors and signposts where more information and support can be found.

‘Social Return on Investment and commissioning’ explains how SROI can be used by commissioners and helps commissioners to use SROI to achieve more social value when commissioning services.

‘Social Return on Investment – for social investing’ explains how SROI can be used by investors if they want to integrate SROI approaches into investment decisions to help them decide which investment will achieve the most social impact.

http://www.sroi-uk.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

Centre for Independent Living Survey

Jul 28

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Disability Cornwall’s online Centre for Independent Living Survey is now ‘live’ and available via there website www.disabilitycornwall.org.uk This is your opportunity as an organisation or individual to have your say and shape the vision to reality, so please give ten minutes of your time to this important initiative.

Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) representation to the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB)

Jul 21

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Derek Moore will be leaving his representative role at the LSCB, if you are interested in being LSCB rep and require further information or would like to register your interest please respond to info@cywp.org.uk and mark your mail “LSCB Election”. It must be understood that any VCS representative elected to the LSCB will be representing the sector and not themselves or their organisations.

LINk in Cornwall Annual Report for 2008-2009

Jul 21

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LINk in Cornwall has published their Annual Report for their first year of development. The Annual Report reflects the hard work that has gone into creating the Local Involvement Network in Cornwall during the last year and gives readers an overview of its activities and successes in helping to improve health and social care services in Cornwall. Please clink on the following link for the annual report.

http://www.cornwallrcc.co.uk/downloads/link_in_cornwall_annual_report.pdf

Cornwall’s Voluntary and Community Sector Survey – have your say!

Jun 22

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Calling all Community Groups, Charities and Voluntary Sector Organisation in Cornwall!

Please click on the link below and fill in our survey*.

This will change the way that services are offered to you in the county!

Support Providers are eager to hear your views!

Please Click Here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kUKOJ6k2lAvrSXfTaiibRg_3d_3d

And lastly, please pass this on to any other groups that you know to encourage them to fill it in too!

*If you recently filled in the Caradon survey, you do not need to fill in this survey.