The latest information on Voluntary Sector budget cuts.....
Liverpool cuts its sector grants budget by 17.5 per cent
The local authority will also reduce its arts and youth services budgets. Liverpool City Council will cut its main voluntary sector grants budget by 17.5 per cent in the financial year 2012/13, a council statement said last week. click here
Voluntary sector cuts mapped across England. Where has been hit worst? Get the data on each area here.
The trade union backed anti-cuts campaign website False Economy says more than 2,000 charities are being forced to close services and sack staff as local authorities slash their funding – or in some cases completely withdraw it. click here
London Councils plans to cut voluntary sector grants by three quarters from 2013
London Councils has proposed reducing its voluntary sector grants programme to £8m a year from 2013 onwards. This is a decline of nearly 75 per cent compared with the budget of £26m in 2010/1 click here
Cuts to Voluntary Sector Grants
Derby City Council is reviewing its Voluntary Sector Grant Aid Strategy. The grant aid pot from controllable council budgets will be £1,971 million for 2011/2012 - reduced from £2.816 million in grant aid the previous year. click here
Voluntary sector cuts mapped across England. Where has been hit worst? Get the data on each area here.
The trade union backed anti-cuts campaign website False Economy says more than 2,000 charities are being forced to close services and sack staff as local authorities slash their funding – or in some cases completely withdraw it. click here
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Community Sustainability Programme
A one day in-house programme for Voluntary
sector and Community based organisations
The Work It Out! Community Sustainability programme features
the 10 point Work It Out! blueprint which enables voluntary and community
sector bodies to become fully self sustainable within twelve months.
Overview
Traditional voluntary sector funding models are no longer sustainable and are not adequate. Many voluntary sector bodies are recognising this and creating a new approach which is not just based on grants. The Work It Out! Community Sustainability programme helps organisations to achieve their aims by moving from dependency and grants to building a secure range of income streams and becoming fully sustainable.
The start of this process is a one day workshop.
Objectives
- To detail a ten point plan to show voluntary sector and community based organisations how they can re-focus their current operations to achieve sustainability
- To design and develop a range of revenue generating ideas and options suitable for implementing in each organisation
- To ensure that each organisation has a clear 12 month plan for maximising income possibilities and becoming sustainable.
Questions
- What do we really want to do?
- How do we currently measure our success?
- How do we generate money & resources for our organisation?
- How dependent are we upon funders?
- Are we stumbling from initiative to initiative or are we building pieces for a secure future?
- How much income are we planning to generate ourselves in 2012?
- Have we a plan for sustainability and growth?
Programme outline
- Recognising the new financial landscape for community groups
- How individual sustainability creates community wealth
- The new types of partnerships that are needed
- Why grants are temporary and products are permanent
- Key steps for building a multi faceted / multi workpiece / multi income organisation
- How every grant can create ongoing permanent income streams
- Key process for building self generated income
- The top 5 most popular community businesses that every voluntary organisation should be earning from
- How to identify and leverage your assets
- How to design and build community workpieces
- Top passive income opportunities for community based organisations
- How to link initiatives and build critical mass
- Driving the 'Work It Out! process and making it happen
- How to ensure that individuals are responsible for key activities and that there is shared ownership of the process and tasks
- Sustainability skills and longer term strategy
- Action Plan
Community Feedback
'A real eye opening session! I learned so much - not just about income but how we should be building our organisation.'
'We needed to find a way forward for our organisation - and now we have a proper plan for 2012.'
'No one has ever detailed the income opportunities for the Voluntary sector like this before. The session was brilliant! A totally different approach to the way we had been thinking.'
'The training was a real breath of fresh air - direct, realistic and practical. We worked out exactly what we need to do.'
'I feel inspired and motivated! I believe we can make a much stronger contribution to our community now'.
'We have the excellent 10 point framework - and have started to work enthusiastically on this. Every voluntary organisation needing income should be working to this.'
Delivery
The Programme is usually delivered on your premises and runs from 10am to 5pm (allowing an hour for lunch). Alternatively, the Programme can be delivered over two evenings from 6 - 9 pm. However, if you have a particular regular meeting or meeting times we can usually work with these. Please contact us to discuss any particular requirements.
Cost
The total cost of the one day Programme is normally £600 per organisation (for up to 20 participants). However, we have a special web offer of just £500 per organisation. Please use the Buy Now button below to secure this price. We will then contact you to discuss your preferred dates and times. Thank you.
If you prefer to pay by invoice please email mail@diversiton.com or call 02841 754777 and quote
Community Sustainability programme web offer to secure the discounted rate of £500.
Further Details
To discuss the Programme further please contact Des McCabe on 028 417 54777 or mail@diversiton.com Thank you.
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