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Services to Local Groups
SNVB offers help and support
to voluntary organisations across the district.
We offer our services to any voluntary, public or private sector organisation or any community
group that operates in South Northamptonshire.
We can offer help including:
Volunteer recruitment
With over ten years’ experience of recruiting
volunteers for groups in the district, we use
- posters,
- newspapers,
- leaflets,
- village contacts,
- local opportunity catalogues,
- our Volunteer Centres,
- public libraries and
- the internet
to recruit volunteers for you.
We are the local agents for the National Volunteering
Database www.do-it.org.uk.
We can also offer advice on “good practice”
to help you to keep your volunteers longer
Practical Support
The Volunteer Centres in Brackley and Towcester
have small offices which can be rented on a sessional basis for advice
providers. In addition the centre in Towcester has a meeting/training
room available for up to 20 people. Both facilities are offered at reasonable
rents and both buildings are fully accessible. We can also provide opportunity
and event catalogues and advertise your activities and events at both
our centres.
Advice and Guidance
SNVB can help with setting up a new organisation
or developing an existing one. Advice is available on roles and responsibilities
of committee members, how to run a meeting, keeping accounts, registering
as a charity, etc.
Fundraising
We can help you to build a sensible budget and
find your way around the maze of funding options. We can help you to understand
public sector funding and find your way around the plethora of trusts
and companies who might help. We don’t give grants ourselves and
we can’t actually do your fundraising for you, but we may be able
to help you to target your efforts.
IT
We can help you with advice from starting out
on the IT road, to developing your IT skills, to building a website.
Networking
Link-up is a regular meeting of local agencies
in the district, where there is sometimes a speaker, but always an opportunity
to share ideas and problems and find solutions. In addition SNVB is part
of a number of local partnerships and can link you in to their thinking.
You can promote your activities through our regular newsletter with a
circulation of about 500.
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