Our Services
- Group development
- Training
- Information
- Community accountancy
- Representation
- Community Leadership Training and Advice
1. Group Development services. Contact Clare 020 8572 5929 ext 225. clare@cvshounslow.org.uk
help with all issues relating to the sustainable development of new and long-standing organisations including:
- Start up
- Funding
- Group development
- Legal matters
- Recruitment and HR
- Constitution
- Charitable status
- Trustees’ responsibilities
- Premises
- Business planning
- Monitoring and evaluation
- PQASSO
- Finance.
2. Training services. Contact Nina 020 8572 5929 ext 223. nina@cvshounslow.org.uk
CVS Hounslow provides free training courses for member organisations. Upcoming courses are advertised by post, email and here on the website where they are listed with booking forms and course outlines under ‘Training’ in the Site Contents.
3. Information services. Contact Nina 020 8572 5929 ext 223. nina@cvshounslow.org.uk
- Email information service (provides daily news about upcoming training and funding opportunities as well as local events and other items of interest)
- Quarterly newsletter
- Monthly funding newsletter
- Website
4. Community Accountancy. Contact Mafaz 07879 335390. communityaccountant@richmondcvs.org.uk
offers weekly finance surgeries for members, helping with:
- Bank reconciliation,
- Bookkeeping systems
- Cashflow
- Financial training
- Identifying financial needs
- End of year returns
- One-to-one financial health checks
- Producing finance reports for funders,
- Producing finance reports for management committee
- Providing list of auditors
- Providing list of independent examiners
- Rules for handling money
- Writing budgets
5. Representation services. Contact Sagal 020 8572 5929 ext 224. sagal@cvshounslow.org.uk
- The Health and Social Care Forum
- Support to voluntary and community sector representatives on the Local Strategic Partnership’s sub-groups
- Network development
- Voluntary and community sector representation at local government level
For representation services in relation to Children’s and Young People’s services, please contact Patrick using the details below.
6. Community Leadership Training and Advice. Contact Patrick on 07538238946 or patrick@cvshounslow.org.uk
If you are a community organisation based in Hounslow and are interetsed in the following Community Leadership training, please get in touch:
- How to be a Committee member
- How to Chair a meeting
- How to take minutes for meetings
- How to run a community project
- How to recruit volunteers for your project
- How to collaborate with other organisations
- How to devise a strategy for your community organisation
- How to consult and involve members of the community
