We have model policies for everything from charity constitutions to staffing, safeguarding, business planning, financial management, fundraising, voluntary organisation committees, and much more. We also have fact sheets on a variety of topics.
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General policies and useful information
Community buildings See our BuildingAssets social enterprise web site and the resources produced by our former project
Safeguarding children and young people NSPCC Model policy and guidance
Safeguarding Adults – LBI offers training to organisations that have a contract or received grant-funding for further information contact the Safeguarding Team on SafeguardingAdultsTraining@islington.gov.uk
Business Planning
Voluntary Action Islington’s Strategic Business Plan may be useful to you as you develop your organisation’s future plans. This template for a voluntary sector business plan and business plan framework may also be helpful.
Financial Management
Our Financial management and controls policy and Financial requirements for successful fundraising- slides from a workshop by Accountability have been produced to help your organisation manage its finances effectively We have also produced the following documents and templates to help you manage finances:
Independent examinations – including a list of local independent examination service providers
Audit or independent examination– a paper produced by our auditors, Goldwins, to help you make a decision about whether to use audit or independent examination. From March 2015 if your income is greater than £500,000 but less than £1m you have the option to consider and independent examination instead of a full audit.
Fundraising information
Voluntary Organisation Committees – membership and roles
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