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Resources
Protecting Charities From Harm - Compliance Toolkit
How to safeguard your charity from terrorism, fraud and other abuse. The government has a toolkit of guidance, advice and other resources to help charity trustees put in place good standards of governance and accountability in place to safeguard their charities from terrorism, fraud and other forms of abuse.
Going Green Together tool
Going Green Together is a movement to supports VCSE organisations and communities in the North East to take action on the climate emergency. It has a web tool to help organisations to take their first climate action steps and share their action with others in the following areas:
Templates for developing successful funding applications
Keda Consulting has developed the Lego Approach to trust fundraising, which helps you to think about your application methodically. It provides helpful cues and a structured format that will suit many applications.
https://www.kedaconsulting.co.uk/2019/09/26/the-lego-approach-to-trust-fundraising/
There is a simple toolkit to help you to being to inject the Lego Approach into your own trust fundraising which you can download for free here
NCVO has written a simple model to help Voluntary and Community Organisations to create eye-catching funding applications. Receiving the funding and support you need can often be a difficult task. In light of that, writing a proposal letter for a not for profit organisation is all about adapting to your audience. It doesn’t matter who you are writing to and in what capacity as long as you abide by the general principles and address your target reader properly
https://knowhow.ncvo.org.uk/how-to/how-to-write-a-catchy-proposal-for-a-non-profit-organization
Snowball has provided a very good template to help you write funding applications that will improve your success rate by getting the right information across to the funding officers and grants panels who will have to read your work and others and then decide how to share out their allocation of money.
https://snowballfundraising.com/grant-proposal-template/
Please use these templates to help you write funding applications that get you the grants you need to make things happen. Use the Who’s who page to find a staff member to provide you with any further information or support you want.
How to encrypt a UBS stick
How safe is your USB stick? Many people often need to store important information such as client’s personal details, and transfer it between devices, but what would happen if you lost it?
Ruth Barnes at MVDA has created some simple instructions on how to encrypt a USB stick for Windows users.
Easyread coronavirus information
Navca has shared this useful easyread information about the coronavirus situation. Please download or share it where appropriate.
GDPR Toolkit
This toolkit is a very helpful guide for Voluntary and Community Organisations to help them get everything they need in place to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Voluntary Organisations Development Agency (VODA) is our sister organisation in North Tyneside; they have granted us permission to share this toolkit in Middlesbrough. The toolkit is for smaller organisations, so if you have employees or hold contracts for services you will need to seek additional support and guidance.
Counter fraud checklist for charities
Charity Finance Group has produced this counter fraud checklist for charities. This checklist is designed to help you to establish (or strengthen) a counter-fraud policy and to cultivate the right culture in your charity to help deter the dishonest minority.
Asylum and refugee provision in Middlesbrough
MVDA Commissioning Framework
This framework explores how appropriate VCS involvement can support intelligent and effective commissioning.
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