Policies, Resources and Toolkits
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Here you’ll find downloadable resources to assist in the effective management of your organisation
| Explanation about adapting and adopting model policies and procedures
The policies and procedures on our website are flexible and are useful for all types of organisations regardless of size or whether an organisation has paid staff or volunteers. Naturally HR policies and procedures in most cases will directly be related to organisations that have paid staff. If your organisation is small or a volunteer led organisation without paid staff then please adapt and adopt any of the relevant policies and procedures to suit your organisational needs. The policies and procedures on our website are templates to be adapted and adopted depending on the type of organisation, thus they shouldn’t just be taken from the website and used in the template format, you will need to read through them and make the appropriate changes, so for example, if there are no staff in your organisation then the references will be about committee members and volunteers. It is important that you put in place policies and procedure that are appropriate for your organisation. If you require any help and advice with adapting or adopting any of the policies and procedures templates on our website, then please contact us on 020 7832 5826 or send an e-mail to Tsigereda.Tekletsadik@vai.org.uk |
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.
To download a document simply click on the relevant link (opens a new window).
General policies and useful information
Community buildings See our BuildingAssets social enterprise web site and the resources produced by our former project
Financial management and controls policy
Financial requirements for successful fundraising- slides from a workshop by Accountability
Guidance related to dealing with domestic violence
Recruitment- using the Disclosing and Barring Service
Safeguarding children and young people NSPCC Model policy and guidance
Safeguarding Adults – Guidance on developing a Policy
Safeguarding Adults – Vulnerable Adults Policy Template
Safeguarding Adults – Guidance for practitioners
Safeguarding Adults – Where to report abuse or neglect
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
Safeguarding Adults – “Help us to stop adult abuse” (LBI leaflet)
Setting up a charity: guidance and model governing documents
Small charity model constitution
Staff development and training
Terms and conditions of employment template (linked to NJC scales)
Trustees -Charity Commission Guide to what you need to know
Volunteer policy. Please also refer to the model documents on our Volunteering pages.
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.
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.
Model cash book and petty cash book
Fundraising guidance: Planning a funding proposal
Fundraising guidance: Application technique
Fundraising guidance: What all funders want to know
Fundraising guidance: Writing a fundraising strategy
Fundraising guidance: Steps to success and why applications fail
Fundraising guidance: Gift Aid
Fundraising guidance: Glossary of terms
Voluntary Organisation Committees – membership and roles
Brief introduction to voluntary organisation committees
Secretary model role description
Treasurer model role description
