| Working with and
amongst the community is never easy but it is potentially very
rewarding and fulfilling. This series of toolkits are designed
to be a mixture of good practice guides and signposts to help
anyone, whether they are new to such work or an established
professional who might seek to incorporate them into their daily
work ethos. Not all of them will be relevant for everyone, but
feel free to browse at your leisure and use what is relevant
to your personal needs and circumstance. |
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| With backing from
the Community Fund until 2006 we will be regularly adding to
this series of developmental aids as we progress and develop
the website. To be regularly updated as to additions to this
section you might therefore like to use our Contact
Us page for your contact details to be added to our SCIPS
site update service. |
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| Online Help to Finding Funding |
for August 2008! |
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| There are many online resources that are freely available to keep you updated on what is happening in the world of funding - this simple toolkit will help guide you to those resources. |
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| Advice for Conversion from paper to electronic based archives. |
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| Advice for groups considering converting from paper based archive material using scanning techniques. |
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| Short Guide To FREE Open Source Alternative Software Available to Groups. |
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| A guide to some of the more popular and easily accessible Open Source software that is freely available. Includes reviews of Office, Desktop Publishing and Image Manipulation software packages - all available to groups for FREE |
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| Guide to Free Online Resources for Learning Desktop Publishing |
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| A guide to some of the online resources that can help groups to master desktop publishing software such as Microsoft Publisher and enable them to design and produce quality newsletters, flyers, posters etc for themselves. |
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| Developing a Business Plan: Planning for the Future! |
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| A guide to help groups in planning both for their short and long term development. |
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| A practical guide for some of the do's and don'ts when applying for funding grants. |
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| Examines some of the funding pots that are available to Tenants & Residents Associations (and Community Groups). This toolkit has been specifically drawn up to be of direct benefit to groups who are based in Sandwell, but much of the information will be relevant to groups from outside the area as well. |
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| Guide to Planning & Holding Successful Meetings |
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| Getting right how you plan and conduct your public and private meetings is an essential element of having and maintaining a successful group - use our toolkit to help ensure you get the maximum out of such meetings whilst ensuring you keep everyone in the group on board! |
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| Language
Is From The Heart Report |
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| A good practice
guide to overcoming language and cultural barriers when engaging
Black, Minority & Ethnic (B.M.E.) communities. |
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| Setting
Up A Community Group - Getting people to work together |
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| A guide into how
to get the most out of people when setting up a new Community
Group. This guide also looks at how people interact in group
situations and how to turn potential conflicts into strengths. |
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If
you have any comments, or suggestions for subjects for future
Community Development Toolkits please e-mail
us your ideas. |
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| Researching
For Information |
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| Any organization
whatever its size or purpose has a need for information. This
toolkit contains links to a variety of useful resources both
at a national and a local level to Sandwell. All the sources
provided are authorative in their field and can be relied upon
as to the quality of information they provide. |
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| Developing
a Community Cohesion Project |
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Community Cohesion
is high on the Government's current agenda as it rightly should
be. However, community groups can promote community cohesion
within their own neighbourhoods without having access to large
pots of funding. Let us help you by providing a few pointers
and suggestions as to how you might begin to develop your
own local plan. |
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| Developing
a Community Group Website |
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| Having developed
our own website from scratch with no previous experience in
web development we considered that we are now in a position
where we could help others by recounting our own experiences
and how we overcame the difficulties we encountered along the
way - please note however this is not a 'software guide' as
there are plenty of those available from any good bookshop! |
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| Developing
a Community Group Promotional Strategy |
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| Designed to help
local groups such as Tenants & Residents Associations etc
develop an affordable and effective promotional strategy for
their group in order to attract volunteers, funders etc to their
organisation. |
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| Organizational
Health Checks |
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| Whatever size of
your organization you will need to be able to demonstrate 'good
practice' in a number of areas if you intend to to compete for
funding or even just attract local volunteers to 'your cause.'
Let us help you develop a professional approach to running your
organization - it will pay great dividends in the long run! |
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