Why do we need your personal information? Member groups We need at least one named contact person and their contact details (telephone number and/or email and a postal address) in order to keep your group informed about the Annual General Meeting and other occasional news about the Resource Centre. When members of your group approach the Centre for support, we will also take their contact details, so that we can communicate with them about that s…
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Community Works 1-1 Advice Surgeries
Community Works are starting new, monthly one-to-one advice surgeries at their offices in Community Base, for groups working in Brighton & Hove. If you want to talk over an issue, or just ask for general advice, they can support you with a wide range of topics. These include, but aren’t limited to Funding, Monitoring and Evaluation, Governance, Volunteering, Policies and Procedures, Strategy and Planning. The sessions are free but you do need to …
Introduction to Social Enterprise – Free 5 week course
Kennedy Street have now opened up their wait list for their free community connections programme – An introduction to social enterprise. Starting 17th April, 10-2 Do you know anyone who is interested in developing: Scoping out their community project idea? Building a business for good idea? Setting up a not for profit community project? Connecting with other amazing people in the community who want to make a difference? This 5 week programme is a…
Grantfinder sessions at Community Works
The council’s free funding search service to community and voluntary organisations will be hosted at Community Base on the following dates: Friday 17 May Thursday 20 June Tuesday 23 July August TBC Tuesday 10 September Appointments take approximately one hour and are available on the above dates between 10am and 2pm Grantfinder is a comprehensive internet-hosted database that contains UK and EU funding initiatives including Government funding str…
Choosing the right structure for your group
Do you want to take your group to the next level? Maybe you want to access more funding or you are thinking of taking on paid staff. Community Works are holding a workshop where you can learn the difference between various legal structures and find which one suits you best. You will have the time and space to think about important issues such as whether to have voting members, how you will be funded and whether or not to incorporate. By the end o…
Community Grants Drop-In
Thursday 27th June, 1-4pm The Bevy, Hillside, Brighton, BN2 4TF Want to make a difference in your community? Got an idea but not sure where to start? Already running a community group and need a helping hand? Come along to the East Brighton Trust’s Community Grants Drop-In for free advice and support. You can: Apply for one of the East Brighton Trust’s £500 small grants and get help filling in the form Find out about other local funding sources G…
Developing and managing a budget that works for you and your funders
Free workshop by Community Works Open to all community and voluntary organisations across Brighton and Hove, Worthing and Adur. Would you like to know more about budgeting issues for voluntary and community organisations? Perhaps you don’t always have confidence in your budgets and find decision-making on budgeting challenging? This session will cover making sense of your budgets, both in terms of: creating budgets for funding bids identifying wh…
Inkjet printer out of service
Sadly, as of May 2019, our inkjet printer is officially dead. We are looking to replace this machine, as we still hear a need for the cheaper colour printing it offers, but it may take us a little while to find one. Please bear with us while we do! We can still do full colour printing on our laser printer, splash colour on our copyprinters, and black and white printing at a range of prices. If you have any queries, don’t hesitate to give us a cal…
Community Grants Drop-in at the Bevy, 27th June
East Brighton Trust have organised a free Drop-in day for local groups wanting to find out about fundraising for their projects. Want to make a difference in your community? Got an idea but not sure where to start? Already running a community group and need a helping hand? Drop in for free advice and support from East Brighton Trust, Sussex Community Foundation, Brighton & Hove Council, UnLtd, Trust for Developing Communities and the Resource Cen…
Led from the margins: our membership and management structure
The Resource Centre prioritises work with groups from the most marginalised communities in our city: those in areas of social housing, those of black and minority ethnic people and of disabled people. All of our work is led by the groups we prioritise. The Centre’s membership is made up entirely of groups in marginalised communities and representatives of these groups elect our Management Committee from among themselves. Each person on our Manage…