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Training Workshops Spring 2025

We now offer all our training online. As we are not having to pay for venues we are passing that saving on to you, so all of these…

Training Workshops Autumn 2024

We now offer all our training online. As we are not having to pay for venues we are passing that saving on to you, so all of these…

Funding Fair 2024 Yorkshire & Humber Day

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair when we had over 2000 bookings across the 3 days. We are doing it all…

Funding Fair 2024 National days

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair when we had over 2000 bookings across the 3 days. We are doing it all…

Training Workshops Spring 2024

We now offer all our training online. As we are not having to pay for venues we are passing that saving on to you, so all of these…

Training Workshops Autumn 2023

19th September – Having Difficult Conversations Talking to each other effectively is something that at times needs careful p…

Funding Fair 2023 Day 3

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair when we had over 2000 bookings across the 3 days. We are doing it all…

Funding Fair 2023 Day 2

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair when we had over 2000 bookings across the 3 days. We are doing it all…

Funding Fair 2023 Day 1

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair when we had over 2000 bookings across the 3 days. We are doing it all…

Training Workshops Spring 2023

17th January – Effective Bid Writing Do you struggle writing successful funding bids? This session will take you through the…

Training Workshops Autumn 2022

13th September  – Management Accounts for small organisations What do management accounts look like and why should you …

Community Matters Research

Community Matters are undertaking some research to look at the costs of hiring community spaces accross the country. It would be v…

Funding Fair 2022 day 3

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair  when we had over 2000 bookings across the 3 days. We are doing …

Funding Fair 2022 Day 2

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair  when we had over 2000 bookings across the 3 days. We are doing …

Funding Fair 2022 day 1

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair  when we had over 2000 bookings across the 3 days. We are doing …

Training Workshops 2022

We have arranged the following training courses taking place over the coming months: 25-Jan   Managing in a Crisis This …

Ensuring charities ‘Do it properly’

"Maintaining Standards in the Charity Sector" is the new research report from Community Matters.…

Community Building Report

Community Matters has produced a follow up report to our published report “How many of us had “Pandemic” in our …

Autumn 21 Training

We have arranged the following training courses taking place over the next couple of months: 13th September Cyber Security Wh…

VCS Funding Support & Covid 19

The government has announced a raft of support for businesses and organisations. This information is correct at 18/3/20 but things…

Funding Fair 2021 – Day 3

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair we are doing something a little bigger this year over 3 days.…

Funding Fair 2021- Day 2

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair we are doing something a little bigger this year over 3 days.…

Funding Fair 2021 – Day 1

Building on the success of last year’s online funding fair we are doing something a little bigger this year over 3 days.…

Training Courses 2021

Below is the training that Community Matters is offering until June 2021.…

New Helpsheets

For Community Buildings considering re opening.…

Autumn Training Courses

29th Sep          Finding Funding Over the past couple of years there has been a proliferation of funding…

Health & Safety

This is the first in what we hope will be a series of videos making suggestions about things organisations can be doing in the cur…

Online Funding Fair

Funding Fair 28th April With the current situation, we were forced to postpone our very popular funding fair. One of the peop…

Covid 19 and Childcare

This information is current at 23/3/20, although it is changing rapidly. Funding Support Free Entitlement Funding (FEE) Yesterday …

Charity CEO’s are overpaid or are they

New Year, new announcement from the Charity Commission about how they will be doing research into Charity pay.  “We underst…

Sue Knowles – Trustees’ Week

In this Trustees week, it is important to recognise those people who give of their time and knowledge. One such person was Sue Kno…

Advising Communities Resources

Community Matters Yorkshire to manage jeopardised voluntary sector resources…

Making Your Community Building A Success

Learn from the experiences of others. Find out what support is available for community buildings.…

Some thoughts on Collaboration

Collaboration is something I have been working with for a number of years, ever since I was involved in the Capacity Builders’ (…

Is competition bad?

I have just been reading the new strategy document for NAVCA.  Firstly I must say that it’s good to see this document clear…

Is your governing document still fit purpose

We have recently been contacted by a charity that has been in existence for over 10 years.  They have over time changed direc…

Charity Digital Skills Report

So once again the Charity Digital Skills Report has the potential to be an important document to shape the needs of the not for pr…

Using Policy Templates

Although this post is written specifically for Childcare organisations, it is equally applicable to any other Not For Profit organ…

New legislation in force from April 2019

From April 2019 you will be required to: Provide payslips to all workers and not just employees. Show additional information on a …

GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation

GDPR is the new EU regulation covering data protection and stands for General Data Protection Regulation. It will come into force …