There are a number of ways that AVOW can support the running of your organisation and can offer you a face to face meeting, however these Information Sheets, produced in conjunction with WCVA, are a good place to find all manner of information from starting out, recruiting volunteers and Trustees, finding money, and employing people.
2.1 Developing a strategic plan
2.4 Effective Annual General Meetings
2.10 Welsh language – legal context
2.13 Community Action to tackle Climate Change
2.13.1 Where to go for help on action on Climate Change
2.14 Using freelance trainers and consultants
2.16 Environmental Sustainability Management Systems
3.2 Community participation and engagement methods
3.9 Wales International Development Network
3.10 Public law remedies – challenging decisions made by public bodies
4.1 Thinking about volunteering
4.2 Developing a volunteer strategy
4.3 Creating a volunteering policy
4.4 Recruiting, selecting and inducting volunteers
4.5 Recruiting Welsh speaking volunteers
4.6 Equality and Diversity in volunteering
4.6.1 Equality and Diversity monitoring for volunteers
4.7 How to ensure volunteer satisfaction
4.8.1 Risk assessment – volunteers based at home
4.9 Safeguarding and good management practices
4.10 Disclosure and Barring Services
4.12 Volunteers and welfare benefits
4.15 Supporting harder to place volunteers
4.16 Involving young people as volunteers
4.17 Understanding mental health and volunteering
4.19 The economic value of volunteers
4.20 Employer Supported Volunteering
4.21 What do Volunteer Centres do in Wales?
4.24 Involving volunteers from overseas
4.25 The language of volunteering – terms explained
4.26 managing concerns relating to volunteers
4.27 Promoting Welsh Language through volunteering
4.28 Welcoming volunteers who are asylum seekers or refugees
5.2 Trustee duties and responsibilities
5.3 Governing body structures and honorary officers
5.4 Recruitment, selection and induction
5.5 Training and development for trustees
5.6 Working with the chief officer
5.7 Liability of trustees and governing body members
5.8 Trustee indemnity insurance
5.9 Winding up – the steps involved and alternative options
6.1 Working in the voluntary sector
6.2 Employing staff for the first time
6.3 Drawing up a Job Specification
6.6 Producing a written statement
6.7 Induction, training and development
6.14.4 Right to request flexible working
7.1 Developing a fundraising strategy
7.3.1 Accounting for volunteers’ time in funding applications
7.7 Introduction to procurement
7.7.1 Introduction to tendering
7.7.2 Developing a successful tender
7.9 Giving (sources of funding)
7.10.1 Introduction to payroll giving
7.10.3 Payroll giving consortia
7.10.4 Introduction to Gift Aid
7.10.6 Gift Aid Record Keeping
8.1 Setting up a financial system
8.4 Monitoring expenditure and budget
8.12 Ensuring you have a good reserve policy
10.1 Communications and marketing plan
10.2 Creating effective marketing and publicity materials
10.7 Website development and maintenance
11.2 Introduction to Welsh devolution and the Government of Wales Act 2006
11.3 National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government
11.4 Assembly business and committees
11.7 The National Assembly for Wales Commission
11.8 Petitioning the National Assembly for Wales
11.9 The National Assembly for Wales – Basic facts and Glossary
11.10 Local government information
11.12 Campaigning and lobbying techniques
11.13 Local Authority Plans and Strategies
12.1 Introducing climate change
12.2 Why climate change issues are important for the third sector
12.3 Climate change as part of sustainable development
12.4 Climate change social justice – impacts on vulnerable groups
12.5 Climate change and environmental justice
12.6 Climate change and energy
12.7 Climate change and housing
12.8 Climate change and livelihoods
12.9 Climate change and health
12.10 Climate change and transport
