There are many legal and practical aspects to running an organisation. You may need to write policies on Health and Safety, GDPR or Safeguarding, or someone in your organisation may need some practical training.
Here you can find policies, processes and training to keep your organisation running smoothly.
Have a question or can’t find what you are looking for? Contact us on communitysupport@communityfirstyorkshire.org.uk or 01904 704177.
Your Organisation Training & Events
Watch this space for future training and events from us. You can find out about training being provided by other organisations below.
March 17, 2021
Event aims Successful collaborations can achieve more than working alone, and help voluntary and community groups deal with the unique challenges the sector is facing today. Collaborative working can range from informal networks to formal agreements, or partnerships. This training...
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Your Organisation Resources
Click on the links below to find resources
Community First Yorkshire Resource Sheets
- GDPR – many organisations keep personal data and need to know the legal requirements for storage and use.
- Employment Advice Service podcast: Episode 1 – Redundancy
- Employment Advice Service podcast transcript on Redundancy
Digital Development
- Charity Digital – How to make Zoom training sessions more interesting
- Reboot platform a step-by-step interactive guide for charities, local voluntary networks and schools to combat digital exclusion in their neighbourhood.
- The Charity Learning Consortium – online little books
- Trillium – Digital Culture for Charities e-book
- Make It Click – Working from home resources including video tools for online meetings, apps for managing projects, and tips on how to adapt to remote working
- Lincs Digital – How To Guides useful for voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations who are supporting people to get online.
- Charity Digital – podcasts for charities adapting to going digital
- Local Trust – A guide to staying connected
- Charity Digital – People first, how to manage a successful charity digital transformation
- NAVCA – 13 Free Digital Tools for Charities
- Lloyds Bank Foundation – Designing and Delivering Online Sessions toolkit
- The Curve – Digital skills training for the third sector
Health and Safety
- North Yorkshire Education Services – HS09: Risk Assessment for Managers (RoSPA Approved)
- North Yorkshire Education Services – HS01: An Introduction to Health and Safety at Work
- North Yorkshire Education Services – HS07: An Introduction to Managing Health and Safety
- North Yorkshire Education Services – HSWG15: Introduction to Risk Assessment (RoSPA Approved)
- Tyro Training – courses on food safety, Fire Marshals, Health and Safety, Risk Assessment, First Aid
- ALSS – courses on adult social care, equality and diversity, safeguarding, health and safety
- Livius Training Centre – courses on Health and Safety, First Aid, Fire Safety, Food Safety
Safeguarding your organisation
- Fraud Advisory Pane Keeping your charity safe in the pandemic and beyond – this is a new help sheet on ‘Keeping your charity safe in the pandemic and beyond’.
- Community First Yorkshire – ACRE Village Hall Safeguarding Week (16 – 22 November): we’re working with ACRE to promote good safeguarding practice to village and community halls. Find resources, tips and examples of best practice.
- Community First Yorkshire – Ten actions trustee boards need to take to ensure good safeguarding governance
- Charity Digital – 10 Point Checklist to Help Secure Your Data
- SCVO Digital – Digital safeguarding podcast
- Catalyst – DigiSafe: step-by-step guide to digital safeguarding
- Charity Fraud Awareness Hub – Covid-19 and charity fraud: what to watch out for and how to stay safe
- Charity Digital – 5 steps every charity should take to improve their cyber security
- Charity Digital & National Cyber Security Center – Cyber Security: setting up your charity’s risk management regime
- Charity Digital & National Cyber Security Center – Prevention is better than the cure: is your charity doing enough to protect from cyber attacks?
- Charity Digital & National Cyber Security Centre – keeping your charity cyber secure
- NCVO – Risk Webinar Series
GDPR
- Community First Yorkshire: guide to GDPR – many organisations keep personal data and need to know the legal requirements for storage and use.
- Charity Digital – HR: the GDPR risks that could catch your charity out
- ICO – Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce – The Essentials of GDPR
- University College London – Introduction to GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation
Other
- NCVO How charities work – NCVO has created this site to answer some of the common questions people have about how charities work.
- CharityJob Diversity in Charity Sector Recruitment: A Hiring Guide – Are the recruitment practices at your charity inclusive enough? Read this diversity guide and find everything you need to audit your organisation, build better hiring practices and inspire collaboration and inclusivity in everything you do.
- The King’s Fund – Maintaining motivation in uncertain times
- NCVO – How to be a resilient organisation
- CIPD – online modules and resources to support employers responding to the coronavirus
- Directory of Social Change – online training on Health and Safety at Work, HR Skills, Making People Welcome, Protecting Data (GDPR), Protecting your Charity
- Acas experts run free regular webinars on employment law topics and employment relations
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