PCDT Group Support Page
I’m a community group and I need help!

I need advice!

If you need help with your constitution, support for your trustees, setting up a charity or other legal structure, contact Inter-Link or ECCVS
If you want to get your message out to other community groups contact Inter-Link or SignPost ECCVS
If you’re a residents association, or live on an estate, contact CN4C
If you’re from a BME community, or would like an understanding of diversity contact Unity Cornwall or CREC
If you’re disabled, or would like a better understanding of disability, the Disability Act and access, contact Disability Cornwall
If you want to know what’s going on at a local or strategic level, contact Inter-Link or Cornwall VSF
If you’re involved with Pre-Schools or would like to become involved and need advice, contact
Pre-School
If you want advice about how to recruit, manage and train volunteers, contact PVB or CCFV
If you need some checks or audits to assess your organisation, try ILCM or PQASSO
If you’d like advice about social enterprise: Cornwall RCC

I need money!

This is a section of documents and web sites for you to look at if you require funding.

South West Regional Bulletin – click here to access the most recent regional funding bulletin, full of funders giving grants for various causes.

CIB south and west (a free searchable database – you need to sign up though and make sure you check the deadlines of the grants to make sure they have not passed).
Funding Central (a free searchable database – you need to sign up though and make sure you check the deadlines of the grants to make sure they have not passed)
Cornwall Community Foundation Grants - a list of lots of lovely local grants!
Big Lottery Fund – look at all the funding available from the Big Lottery
Convergence Cornwall – find out what Convergence is up to and how you could access some of the benefits and funding from one of its projects.
Grant Finder – ‘biggest funding database in UK’ you need to subscribe and it costs. ECCVS is hoping to subscribe to this shortly and offer you this service for free.
Government Funding (costs £172.50 to be a member of this searchable database of government funding)

Have you ever thought about….

Tenders In Cornwall – register online to this service and find out what the public sector and others would like to buy – perhaps you can offer them the perfect service or product!
For additional funding advice and guidance, contact Funder Finder

Rather than just grant funding, have you considered fund raising?

Institute of Fundraising or Farnhill

… or perhaps trading as a Social Enterprise?

Rise SW, Cornwall RCC

… and then, you might be able to consider a charity loan:

Charity Bank
Triodos
Future Builders England