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This Resource Library provides an array of published materials from a range of third parties within the Third Sector. IMMPACT are signposting Voluntary and Community Organisations (VCOs) to these materials to add value to our own contextualised resources for the Northern Ireland sector. All materials are coyright of their respective owners and the Social Economy Agency are not subject to the content therin or updating of. |
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The following resources are from NCVO's Sustainable Funding Project. They contain a variety of funding and finance information for Voluntary and Community organisations to focus their efforts towards long-term financial sustainability. The guides and tools remain the copyright of NCVO. Introductory Pack on for Voluntary and Community Organisations (Six-Part Pack) Introducing Funding & Finance for Voluntary & Community Organisations Searching for other Income Streams The 'Income Spectrum' outlines all the available income options for voluntary and community organisations. This resource has been developed by NCVO's Sustainable Funding Project. Sustainable Sun Needs-Analysis Tool Hard copies of these guides will be made available to participants on IMMPACT. |
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These strategic planning resources are the recommended texts which IMMPACT are advocating to VCOs. In particular, we are making available the 'Tools for Tomorrow' toolkit as our core text for those participating on the Strategic Planning workshop offered through the IMMPACT Learning Programme. Tools for tomorrow – A practical guide to strategic planning for voluntary organisations The Centre for Charity Effectiveness at Cass Business School, City University London and NCVO’s Third Sector Foresight project have collaboratively developed a comprehensive and easy-to-use toolkit - for use by VCOs embarking on their strategic planning journeys. Inventing The Future: The Strategic Management of Voluntary Organisations NICVA’s publication is a useful tool for future planning and decision-making. Copies can be ordered directly from NICVA. Solid Foundations The Wheel’s publication is also a useful resource guide in terms of structures, governance and strategic planning processes for Community & Voluntary sector organisations. Copies can be ordered directly from The Wheel. |
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Full Cost Recovery (FCR) is the process of analysing an organisation's full costs base and understanding how these costs related to the development of projects or programs of work. FCR is gaining in acceptance by the major funding bodies. Below are a set of resources to offer some insights into the key concepts and tools available in the sector to VCOs. Funding the Future: Core Costs Revisited ACEVO's excellent introduction to the need for full cost recovery enables readers to develop a sophisticated understanding of the issue from all sides of the debate. Full Cost Recovery: A Guide and Toolkit on Cost Allocation New Philanthropy Capital's practical guide to understanding and analysing full costs. At the heart of the guide is a cost allocation template to help organisations calculate the full costs of their projects and services in an easy step-by-step process. It is available in hard-copy or as an interactive CD-ROM. Both these publications are available from ACEVO. NCVO's Sustainable Funding Project (SFP) has more information on full cost analysis and recovery on its website. New Philanthropy Capital has more information on the full cost recovery cost allocation template, concepts and principles explained. NICVA run a 1-day course to explain the principles behind full cost recovery and so help organisations to understand their costs better and present them in a consistent way to funders. The programme will refer to ACEVO and New Philanthrophy Capital's CD-ROM template as a potential tool for costing projects. Participants will receive the CD-ROM of the Full Cost Recovery Template. The one day course covers topics such as: types of costs, methods of allocating costs to projects/activities and systems for data collection. |
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The resources below are from a variety of organisations with experience of exploring trading activities for VCOs using social enterprise and other business models to develop and diversify their income revenue streams. Making Good Money in Belfast - The Story of Ten Social Economy Businesses Written by leading social economy practitioners, Maurice Kinkead, Sammy Douglas and Geoffrey Ready, ‘Making Good Money’ is an inspirational resource for budding social entrepreneurs, with features on successful social enterprise ventures, lessons learned, information on grant availability and advice on sustainability. The publication will be made available in print form for participants on the 'Understanding Social Enterprise' course as part of the IMMPACT Learning Programme. Alternatively, it is also freely available online. From Asking to Earning NCVO’s Sustainable Funding Project and its partners in the South West of England ran a pilot programme providing direct support to a selection of organisations wishing to develop an idea for generating income from trading goods and services. This publication tells the story of that journey. It details the organisations’ earning by examining the critical success factors along the route. Essential reading for anyone interested in generating earned income. Cultivating Enterprise This toolkit for starting up successful development trusts and enterprising community organisations iis available from the Development Trusts Association via email
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Contracting out and commissioning of public services is fast becoming the norm. This represents significant opportunities for the NI Community and Voluntary sector to bid for works through quotations, tenders and competitive bidding processes. Whilst there are potential gains to be made there are also many issues for VCOs to be aware of as they traverse the changing procurement landscape. Public Procurement: A Guide for Social Economy Enterprises This guide has been produced by the Public Procurement Joint Working Group. Through the Social Economy Forum, established by the Social Economy Agency, the social economy sector identified an opportunity to help create a more supportive and enabling environment for social economy enterprises by increasing their knowledge, understanding and capability to compete successfully for government and other public and/or private sector contracts. Copies of this publication will be made available to participants on the 'Understanding Social Enterprise' workshop as part of the broader offering from the IMMPACT Learning Programme. Before Signing on the Dotted Line: A Guide to Public Procurement for SMEs This NCVO guide enables small and medium sized organisations to navigate the complex rules, procedures and practices that constitute the public sector procurement process. These NCVO publications are available for download from their website or by clicking on the links Procurement and Contracting Guide (PDF 715KB) and Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance for Voluntary and Community Organisations. |
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Social loan finance is a relatively new means of raising funds for VCOs to grow their organisations. Set-up in part to foster the potential for more rapid growth and scale of operational activities, this form of finance has become increasingly popular in the Third Sector as an alternative means of securing more favourable finance viz-a-vis more traditional finance providers. The links below provides an overview of the key players across the UK and Ireland operating in the social loan finance field. Brief Guide to Loan finance for Trustees (NCVO)
Loan Finance for Voluntary and Community Organisations (Charity Bank) Good Governance: A Resource Guide (NICVA) Providers of Social Loan Finance include: Charity Bank Clann Credo Ulster Community Investment Trust
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Outcomes are the changes, benefits or other effects that happen as a result of a set of inputs, activities and outputs. More simply, outcomes are the near term changes which occur in a service user or target group or community – these changes can be both positive and negative. For IMMPACT we define actual impacts as longer term, or broader significant and lasting changes brought about in a target group or community. Impacts differ from outcomes in that the level of attribution in relation to project activities and outputs is less certain than for outcomes. National Council for Voluntary Organisations: Distance Travelled - the experience of outcome monitoring
Charities Evaluations Service: Your Project and Its Outcomes New Economics Foundation: Proving & Improving Toolkit
Big Lottery Fund: Outcomes Management
Community Evaluation Northern Ireland: Introducing Outcomes
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