West Yorkshire - Support and Development Organisations
The following organisations provide specialist support across West Yorkshire.
fit4funding
fit4funding - has been providing information, advice and training to not-for-profit organisations throughout West Yorkshire since 1981.fit4funding services include:
- Training on all aspects of fundraising for organisations (staff, trustees and volunteers), funding advisers and funders
- National and local e-newsletter providing up to date funding information and deadlines
- Website-www.fit4funding.org.uk with advice sheets and information about all aspects of fundraising;
- Consultancy on strategic planning, bid preparation etc.
- We are an accredited OCN Centre and Investor in People.
Address: 93, Lawefield Lane, Wakefield, WF2 8SU
Tel:01924 239063
Email: info@fit4funding.org.uk
Website: www.fit4funding.org.uk
Pay and Employment Rights Service (PERS)
PERS offers support to voluntary and community sector organisations in Leeds by providing a telephone information and advice service on employment rights issues.
This includes:
- advice to organisations on day-to-day employment issues, and adherence to the legal frameworks that exist to prevent discrimination at work
- advice and information on models of good practice (via telephone advice, publications and from their website)
- one-to-one consultancy with organisations with support tailored to their human resources needs. This might include terms and conditions, equal pay, compliance with Disability Discrimination Act, Race Relations Amendment Act, European directives etc. In practice this can mean working through the range of policies and procedures new organisations should adopt, and amending existing policies and practices of more established organisations to meet current legal requirements
- model policies and toolkits, including Recruitment & Selection, Redundancy, Equal Opportunities and Sick Pay
For more information please contact PERS at:
Address: Pay and Employment Rights Service (Yorkshire) Ltd., Unit 14, Batley Enterprise Centre, 513 Bradford Road, Batley, WF17 8LL
Tel: 01924 428033
Fax: 01924 440906
Email: director@pers.org.uk
Website: www.pers.org.uk
WYCAS – West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service
WYCAS is a small charitable company operating mainly in West Yorkshire. Its overall aim is to develop the ability of voluntary and community sector organisations with charitable aims to manage their money more efficiently and effectively and to better attain the objectives that they were set up to achieve. Services that we offer include:
- One-to-one training and support for key finance staff
- Annual Accounts service
- Financial Management Training Courses
- Good Practice Guides
- Advice Line
- Financial Systems Health-checks and Remedial Work
- WYCAS Newsletter
Address: WYCAS office, Stringer House, 34 Lupton Street, Hunslet, Leeds, LS10 2QW
Tel Office: 0113 270 6291.
Tel Advice: 0113 270 6269.
Email: info@wycas.org.uk
Website: www.wycas.org.uk
In addition to the services of fit4funding - The Charities Information Bureau (CIB), your Local Infrastructure Organisation will be able to provide other help with setting up and running a community group or voluntary organisation.
