Welcome to Community Matters

Community Matters supports ...

Charities

Community Groups

Social Enterprises

Childcare Organisations

Childminders

Individuals and Families

Our Vision

The Community Matters vision is to provide a sustainable and effective "hub" of learning, support, advice and guidance, enabling local communities and organisations to grow and achieve through the provision of a high quality service.

We do this in a number of ways through our various projects which at the moment concentrate on working with children, young people and families. But not exclusively. We are able to provide training, learning opportunities and business related advice, guidance and information to individuals and organisations.

Latest News

  • Spring Training 2022

    Posted in News on Dec 08, 2021

    We have arranged the following training courses taking place over the next couple of months: - 

    25-January Managing in a Crisis

    This Workshop looks at Managing in a Crisis. We will consider Risk Registers, and specifically organisational risk assessments. We will also look at continuity plans. The question to ask ourselves will be - who had pandemic in their risk register?

    08-February Operational plans

    The uncertainty of the past few months has required many of us to think on our feet, and quickly adapt our services and projects to deal with the pandemic crisis. There has never been a time whe...

  • ENSURING CHARITIES ‘DO IT PROPERLY’. Maintaining Standards in the Charity Sector.

    Posted in News on Oct 05, 2021

    ENSURING CHARITIES ‘DO IT PROPERLY’.  Maintaining Standards in the Charity Sector. Is the new research report from Community matters

    Launched today on 5th October 2021. The report has a forward by Rachael Maskell MP, Shadow Civil Society Minister and an introduction by Michael O’Toole CEO of Cambridgeshire Community Foundation and previously the Crown Representative for the Voluntary & Community Sector.

    The report looks at some of the implications of the withdrawal of the Charity Commission endorsement scheme some years ago and considers that in the last 5 years serious incident reports report...

  • Community Building Report

    Posted in News on Jul 08, 2021

    Community Building Report


    Community Matters has produced a follow up report to our published report "How many of us had "Pandemic" in our risk register"

    We have interviewed over 20 organisations running community buildings, and also gathered data from another 120.

    The result is the report "A Significant Place in the Local Landscape" which follows the themes of the original, 6 months on as organisations start to look at what the post COVID future will hold.

    "A Significant Place in the Local Landscape    " will be published on Monday the 5th of July. You can get copies by going to https://mailch...