USEFUL RESOURCES FOR VCSFE
In addition to our pages that introduce you to becoming an established third sector organisation and navigating funding opportunities, here you will find some useful resources and contacts. These include governing bodies and regulators of the VCSFE sector that can provide advice and guidance on a range of topics. Below that you will find some resources to help in your research, this could be for identifying a population or the needs of a particular community which can help inform funding applications and the development of projects and new initiatives.
If you have a question you want answering or something you think would be useful for us to include here, please get in touch [email protected] and we can include the answers here.
Information & Guidance
- Government guidance on setting up a charity step-by-step.
- Free practical guidance for recruiting trustee’s.
Building long-term endowment, grant making, social investment, advice and practical support: we listen, convene, collaborate, co-create, and fund.
Sets out the responsibilities that apply to fundraising carried out by charitable institutions and third-party fundraisers in the UK.
- The latest available funding and grant schemes
- Funding ready workshops and support
- Advertise your voluntary roles
- Search for a funder
- Join the Lincolnshire Funding Advice Network (LFAN) for networking
Find a clear, appropriate and coherent set of policies and procedures help ensure that your organisation is well run.
- Step-by-step information on establishing a charity.
- Links to information on financing, fundraising, politics and policies.
- Provide leadership training.
Further information and guidance on establishing a social enterprise and the frameworks required.
An HR service specifically for social sector employers.
Provides free, impartial advice on workplace rights, rules and best practice.
- Guidance on employment for charities and trustees.
- Find links to free solicitor services and law firms.
Guidance, tools and tips to help recruit trustees and diversify boards.
- UK membership body for social enterprises.
- Social enterprise events and awards.
- Social enterprise start-up guide.
Advice and information on determining the legal structure of your social enterprise.
Research & Information
- Access to a range of economic, social and population statistics and reports and the census.
A shared evidence base resource for health and social care professionals in Lincolnshire.
- Access to the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme (HiQiP) information.
- Helpful guidance and resources to assist people working to tackle health/healthcare inequalities across the health system and beyond.
- Core20PLUS5: NHS England approach to inform action to reduce healthcare inequalities at both national and system level with a defined target population. For adults and now children and young people, too.
Statistics on relative deprivation in small areas in England.
A freely accessible tool that highlights and identifies where there are any potential pockets of deprivation within the Greater Lincolnshire area by theme.
