Thu, 29 July 2010
Worcestershire Infrastucture Consortium
Business Support Services
Management and Governance
- Leadership and trustee development
- Constitutions
- Business planning
- Financial management
- Managing staff and volunteers
- Health and Safety
Organisational Development
- Organisational needs analysis
- Advice to individuals on identifying development needs
- Training and developing your workforce
- Staff and volunteer recruitment
- Marketing your organisation and services
Start up assistance
- Social enterprise start up
- Reinvigorating your group
- Winding up your group
Adopting a Legal Structure
- Unincorporated Association
- Limited Company
- Charity
- Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- Community Interest Company
- Partnerships
- Cooperative
- ndustrial and Provident Society
- Trust
Funding and Sustainability
- Access to funding searches
- Bid advice and appraisal
- Sustainable funding and social enterprise – selling goods or services
- Advice and support on public sector procurement/ grant processes
- Collaborative bidding - partnership/consortium type working arrangements
- Promotion of local, regional and national funding opportunities
- Promotion of funding and sustainability toolkits and self-help resources
- Promotion of public sector procurement opportunites
Quality improvement
- Choosing and implementing a Quality standard, including PQASSO, Investors in People, etc.
- Defining, implementing, monitoring and evaluating outcomes and impact
- Promotion of impact measurement techniques
- Web based self-help resources and toolkits
- Full cost recovery,
- Quality
- Check the health of your organisation
ICT
- Health Checks
- Funding advice for ICT projects
- Strategy and Planning advice
- Technical support
Community Cohesion
- Information provision about community cohesion activity
- Parish planning advice and support
- Facilitate integration
- Village e-groups
Accommodation
- Finding premises
- Managing premises -safety, insurance etc
- Environmental issues
Contact:
Mark HerriottBusiness Support Hub Chair
T: 01684 312752
E: markh@comfirst.org.uk
