Support for your group relating to Governance is available. This could include defining the values and missions for your group, support with writing a governing document (often referred to as a constitution) or help deciding on the best legal form for your organisation to take.
Support with Governance could guide you through effective policy and procedure development (including employment law policies) and implementation, often providing you with model documents to build your policies from, ensuring the Governance structure of your organisation is strong enough to give you effective strategic direction addressing equality and diversity.
When setting up groups can opt to take different legal forms depending on their activities and the purpose of their work. Different options include: Charitiy, Community Interest Company (CIC) or Industrial and Provident Society (IPS).
For any group with a Trustee Board help is available if you have any issues regarding your Trustee Board from recruitment and retention to roles and responsibilities.
Free Resource: LIC Governance Factsheet (.pdf)
Useful Links
VAL Training
Check the latest course listings for relevant training. Regular courses include ‘ How to register as a Charity’ ‘The role of the treasurer’ and ‘How to register Community Interest Company’
VAL Factsheets
A range of topics relating to governance are covered in free factsheets available from the VAL website.
PERS publications
The Pay and Employment Rights Service (PERS) provide a wide range of free publications covering all aspects of employment law. The information is free to download from the PERS website but they do ask for your postcode and other basic information before you can access the publications.
