Services: Group Development

VAC supports community groups in a number of ways. Below we have listed many of the areas we can help you with – whether you are just starting out or are already setup and need some advice on organisational development. If you can’t see what you need listed here, don’t worry, we can probably still help – and if we can’t we are well-placed to connect you with other sources of help and advice. Just get in touch using the details at the bottom of the page.

Income Generation

Find sources of funding and discover new ways to generate income, including Crowdfunding and Social Finance.
Improve fundraising skills and knowledge: we have a range of useful publications among st our toolkits and resources, including downloadable advice sheets.
Develop fundraising strategies business planning, or writing funding applications or tender writing.
Think more strategically about funding over the longer-term to create a more sustainable funding base for your activities. This includes: training and one-to-one advice on ‘Developing Fundraising Strategies’ and preparing fundraising plan and looking at sustainable funding approaches – advice and training on issues such as how to diversify your funding base.

Business & Strategic Planning

Start-up support and business planning
Income strategy and new business models
Strategic development and delivery
Cost efficiency and savings
Understanding financial implications e.g. income and expenditure projections, assumptions, financial management, fundraising strategy, risk assessment etc
Developing new products, services and ways of working
Managing your assets
Marketing and communications
Strengthening infrastructure e.g. policies and procedures.

Employment & HR

Contracts of Employment
Discipline
Employment status
Grievance
Health and Safety
Holidays
Job evaluation
Maternity
Part-time workers
Recruitment
Redundancy
Sickness

Governance

Finding and recruiting trustees
Induction
Support for chairs
Dealing with conflict
Understanding legal obligations

ICT & Digital

General advice and guidance on

Setting up a website
Database development
Setting up Office IT systems

Partnership & Consortia Building

One to one support to you to develop the partnership or consortia model
Support you in the key stages in setting up a partnership or consortia
Developing partnership, consortia or collaborative working agreement
Finding partners and linking up with Camden civil society networks

Quality Assurance

Advice and training on implementing quality assurance systems
Advice and training on monitoring and evaluation processes
Developing outcome and impact measurement tools and supporting organisations to engage with outcome-based funding and commissioning opportunities
Demonstrating added value from volunteering
Calculating the organisation’s economic contribution to the community

Staff & Volunteer Development

Training for staff and volunteers – including in-house, tailor-made training
Team building – including negotiation and communication skills
Accredited management training – including project management, organisational and strategic management courses
Developing skills and adapting to change
Organisational culture, innovating culture and leading change

How do we get help from VAC?

The fastest way to get support is to submit an enquiry via our Clearing House Web Enquiry Form. Alternatively you can contact us by phone, email or in person.