Tips for community groups about running a letter-writing campaign. What is a letter-writing campaign? A letter-writing campaign is an organised effort to coordinate as many people as possible to write to a decision maker (e.g. a Councillor, MP or Minister), asking them to take a particular action. Is letter-writing a useful tool for your campaign? Planning your letter-writing campaign What to put in your letters Is letter-writing a useful tool fo…
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Resource Centre policies and procedures
These are the Resource Centre’s own policies and procedures. You might find them useful when writing your own sample policies, but bear in mind that your policies should be relevant to your own organisation. This links open PDFs created from Word documents, to improve reader accessibility. Signed, scanned copies are available. Don’t forget to always review your policies at a meeting of your governing body, and ask a committee member, trustee or d…
Hall and Woodhouse Community Chest
Grants available for: Community groups in the South of England Size of grants given: £300-£3,000 Next deadline: 14th July 2024 Aims of Fund The ethos of the Community Chest is: Working together towards improving both facilities and the lives of residents in the community. Promoting, encouraging and supporting community involvement. Offering access funds to local voluntary groups with clearly identified needs. Who can apply Applications are welcom…
Monitoring and evaluation
… Monitoring and evaluation is simply the process of collecting information about how your activities or services are used, and using that information to help you understand what is going well and what could be improved. Monitoring and evaluation is useful for helping you to run your group effectively. It is also helpful for providing information to funders. …
Planning and running a campaign
A guide for community groups on how to think through and run a good campaign A campaign is simply an organised set of actions aiming to achieve a specific goal. To run a good campaign, you will need to do some careful thinking and talking in your group. There are a lot of choices to make before you launch your campaign. This page covers: Deciding on your goal(s) Identifying the decision-makers Crafting your campaign story Choosing your actions Ev…
Rampion Community Benefit Fund
Grants available for: community projects with links to environment and ecology, climate change and energy Size of grants given: up to £10,000 for community projects; up to £20,000 for capital projects for community buildings Next deadline: 26th April 2024 Aims of Fund The Fund seeks to support projects that benefit local communities and those with links to environment and ecology, climate change and energy. Priority will be given to projects that…
Facebook for community groups
Simple information and tips for small, volunteer-run community organisations What’s what on Facebook: Profiles, Pages and Groups How to get people to engage with your Facebook Page How to encourage dialogue and community in your Facebook Group How to publicise events on Facebook More information and useful resources What’s what on Facebook: Profiles, Pages and Groups Profiles Every person who uses Facebook needs a Facebook Profile. This is an ind…
Getting your message across
This section has practical advice and information about how to get your message across in the most effective way, including tips on producing neighbourhood newsletters, consulting your community, and using the media and social media. Thanks to Big Lottery for grant funding to develop this information for community groups. Communicating with your community Publicising your group Campaigning Producing a neighbourhood newsletter Information sheets i…
Producing a neighbourhood newsletter
… Producing a newsletter for your neighbourhood can be a great way to share news and to build a sense of community. This information will help neighbourhood community groups to produce and print successful newsletters. It is useful for other types of community newsletters too, including electronic newsletters. …