About Community Support North Yorkshire
Helping your organisation to flourish.
Community Support North Yorkshire helps voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) groups to grow and thrive by providing specialist advice, guidance and training.
We are a local infrastructure support organisation for North Yorkshire. Our experienced team is here to help established and aspiring trustees, employees and management committees with a wide range of organisational support including:
- Finding potential grants and funds, support with applications and fundraising ideas.
- Understanding governance structure, registration and compliance.
- Helping you engage with your community and delivering effective services.
- Business planning and financial management.
- Developing policies and good safeguarding practices.
- Strengthening social media and marketing activities.
- Recruiting and managing new volunteers, including attracting new trustees.
- Carrying out an organisational health check.
We can connect you with quality resources, peer support and personal development opportunities, as well as offer one-to-one advice.
Take a look at the support we offer in our leaflet.
Community Support North Yorkshire is a service provided by Community First Yorkshire and funded by North Yorkshire Council and NHS North Yorkshire.
To get in touch simply complete our online registration form and one of our Community Support North Yorkshire team will get in touch.
Andy Ryland
Development Officer
Contact Andy for: Men’s Sheds, funding, training and governance.
Andy Shield
Development Officer (2 days) / Community Anchor Support Programme Manager (2 days)
Andy’s Development Officer role (Tues/Weds): Contact Andy for Governance, funding, Community Led Housing, training and skills audits.
Andy’s Community Anchor Support Programme Manager role (Mon/Thurs): If you are a community anchor organisation with a question, please get in touch.
Carole Roberts
Community Support Delivery Manager
Contact Carole for: information about the Community Support North Yorkshire service.
Claire Smith
Community Support Assistant
Contact Claire for: information on how to access support from the Community Support North Yorkshire team.
Hilary Ashton
Development Officer
Contact Hilary for: advice on choosing a charitable structure, constitutions, trustee issues, community buildings, funding, strategic and/or financial planning, volunteering.
Mike Hickman
Leadership Development and Training Manager
Contact Mike for: Leadership Development and Training programmes.
Nicky Ruddick
Development Officer
Contact Nicky for: advice on governance including registering as a charity, community buildings, children and young people’s projects and tap into her vast experience of grant funding.
Simona Gorin
Leadership Development and Operational Assistant
Contact Simona for: information about our training, and joining our Leadership Mentoring programme.
Su Morgan
Development Officer
Contact Su for: support for your voluntary, community or social enterprise organisations.
Vicki Sharp
Development Officer
Contact Vicki for: support with developing your community group or voluntary sector organisation from funding to finance, volunteering to charity governance.