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Skye & Lochalsh CVO Information Leaflets

We offer a range of information leaflets which are produced in house and are regularly updated. They pull together a wide range of topics and are presented in a simple, user-friendly format - aimed at all sizes of community groups and projects.  You can download these leaflets here.  If you prefer to receive them in PDF please contact us.

  1. Annual General Meetings
  2. Producing an Annual Report
  3. Charitable Status
  4. The Role of the Chair & Vice-Chair
  5. The Role of the Committee Member
  6. Writing your Constitution
  7. What is a Council for Voluntary Service (CVS)?
  8. Data Protection
  9. Disclosures and your community group
  10. Financial Matters
  11. Help with Fundraising (how Skye & Lochalsh CVO can help)
  12. Legal Structures
  13. Good Meetings
  14. Taking Minutes
  15. The Role of the Minute Secretary
  16. Setting up a Play Park
  17. Raffles & Lotteries
  18. The Role of the Secretary
  19. The Role of the Treasurer
  20. Support your Volunteers with a Volunteer Policy
  21. The Role of Charity Trustees
  22. Setting up a Group

 

Community Toolkit

Further information on these topics and more can be found on our Community Toolkit online resource.  For all matters relating to the structure and governance of a community group go to the Organisational section.  Your group can build your own 'manual' of information direct from the Community Toolkit - Look for the Print Page facility on the pages you need.

File Library

The Community Toolkit also includes a library with sample constitutions and policies for you to download as templates.  These can then be tailored to your group's own requirements.  Click here to go to the File Library.

Help organising Courses

Skye & Lochalsh CVO can help organise training and workshops for your group. Please contact us for assistance with any training needs.

Building Community Capacity: guidance for staff working with communities

This guidance gives practical advice about how to build community capacity; brings together existing materials and toolks and provides examples of what others have done.  You can dip in and out to find information which is most relevant to you and is useful whether you want to know more about the process of building community capacity from planning to evaluating or find resources to support existing work.  Click here to visit Capacity for Change Resource

IT Training 

Microsoft have an excellent range of free online courses in:

  • Word
  • Access
  • Communicator
  • Excel
  • Live Meeting
  • OneNote
  • Outlook
  • PerformancePoint Server
  • PowerPoint
  • Project
  • Publisher
  • SharePoint Server
  • Visio

They also have a large range of Clip Art and Templates which you can download and use with compatible Microsoft programmes. 

Visit their website for more information or to take a course.

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