The range and quantity of legislation affecting the voluntary sector makes it difficult to keep up to date with the obligations placed on voluntary organisations. Whether taking on staff, leasing premises, tendering for service contracts, taking out insurance, operating as a charity or changing the organisation's legal structure, staff and committee members need to understand the law.

find your council by peet, postcode, street, town.

Meet the Funder Lessons from The City Bridge Trust programme Delegate fee: FREE SEL warmly invites you to a FREE learning conference on achieving financial sustainability within community groups. Supported by The City Bridge Trust, over the last year SEL has run an innovative programme of support with 36 organisations to enable them to develop financially sustainable practices. The aim of this conference is to disseminate the learning from that programme. There will also be an opportunity to meet the Deputy Head of Grants at The City Bridge Trust, so if your organisation could benefit from a greater focus on financial sustainability then make sure you come along.

For your diaries people: free event by london voluntary services council on ICT. Prog includes: e-learning tools, tech suporting collaboration see page.

"fund raising standards board" FRSB tick credibility logo competitor, but free with no fee ;o). A service to put the minds at ease of potential donors. How good? Dunno, got here from Thirdsector Mag.

This is a tick for fundraisers, but you have to become a member to get it. Paid membership! If you are fundraising, it may give people that bit of comfort that you are in a database.

The giving machine featured in old council newsletter. see bottom of google indexed pdf. Thre are some i nteresting bits in newsletter (even though old) regarding disabled children and programmes that may still be active

DWP volunteer brokerage scheme pays charities to provide volunteering opportunities for jobseekers., opened last week, a DWP spokeswoman said it would provide £8m. Final dates have been delayed and there is no current info on the DWP website as of 14/04/09 - may change later on.

I've got this book will pass on when I get to it! - goes well with the other book I have from same authors! - check out indexed pdf summary

found this, may be useful in the context of children's emotional school readiness. US research by foundation