VAC Consultancy Support: Practical Help for Camden Groups

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One of VAC’s key roles in Camden is helping local residents and communities’ setup & manage groups, projects and activities that help address local needs and opportunities.

 


We can help you with:

 

Setting Up

·         Clarify what you want your project or group to achieve and what you need to do to get there

         Choosing a legal structure

         Writing a constitution

         Registering as a charity or other community group e.g. CIC Social Enterprise etc.

         Find premises or hot-desking to work from

         Opening a bank account

         IT (systems, websites, database, social media).

 


Managing your organisation

        Business planning

         Recruiting & supporting trustees

         Employment & HR advice

Safeguarding training and child protection legislation

Service and project development

        Financial advice

         Manage Insurance & Risk

         Developing policies & strategies

         Evaluation & impact measurement

         Connect with other groups

Influencing policy and strategic decision-making 

 


Fundraising

         Developing strategies to raise funds

         Search for funding using grantfinder software

         Writing funding applications

        Preparing project budgets

         Reviewing applications before submitting.

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Who Do We Help?
Our services are either free or low-cost to:

  • All Camden-based residents and community groups
  • Groups located outside of the borough so long as they mainly serve Camden residents.

If you are a community organisation that mainly works outside of Camden, or you work in the private or public sector, you can still get support from us through one-to-one, intensive support charged at a very competitive rate.


How do we help?
Once you have submitted this form you can expect a response from us within 5 business days. In the meantime we will email you some information which you can read through in advance of our first follow up call. During that call we will discuss your needs in more detail and come up with plan to support you going forward. If you are looking for help setting up a new group, we highly recommend reading our New Starter guide which contains lots of helpful information on choosing a legal structure, governance and finance. You will receive a copy of this after submitting the form.
Your Support Needs








Organisation Contact Details
If you haven't set your organisation up yet and don't have any specific organisation contact details, please leave this section blank and just fill in your personal contact details instead.

Please write the name in full, not abbreviated. If you don't have a name for the group yet you can just use your own name for now.

This could be another name you are known by, such as your abbreviated name e.g. VAC rather than Voluntary Action Camden.





This is usually a generic email e.g. enquiries@, info@, support@ etc. not your own work or personal email e.g. john@, alex@ etc







Personal Contact Details







Please make sure you have filled in the relevant contact field above to ensure we can contact you by your preferred method!

Terms & Conditions
You must be a member to access VAC services and support.  VAC membership is free.  If you no longer wish to access VAC services and support then you can opt out of membership at any time.

Use of your data
General Privacy Information

Voluntary Action Camden promises to respect any personal data you share with us, or that we get from other organisations, and keep it safe. We aim to be clear when we collect your data and not do anything with it you wouldn’t reasonably expect. VAC follows the following principles in order to protect your privacy:
  • we do not collect more information than is necessary;
  • we do not use your data for purposes other than those specified;
  • we do not keep your data if it is no longer needed;
  • we do not share your data with third parties, unless where we have a statutory or contractual requirement to do so.We will always let you know if this is the case.
The data you provide on this form will be used to determine your eligibility to access this service and to ensure we have the information we need to provide you with the service you have requested.

Information from these electronic forms is automatically added to our internal database as a digital record. We will update these records with the progress of your request so that we have a log of the work we have done and the service we provided to you. You can find out more about VAC processes data in our GDPR Privacy Policy.

Sharing Data

We are part-funded by Camden Council to provide organisation development support to Camden groups.    As a requirement of this funding we will share with Camden Council:

  • Organisation name
  • Category of support requested e.g. business planning, fundraising
  • Turnover
  • Outcome of the work.


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