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: www.eccvs.org.uk
If you want to get your message out to other community groups contact: www.cornwallinterlink.org.uk or SignPost: www.eccvs.org.uk
If you’re a residents association, or live on an estate, contact: www.cn4c.org.uk
If you’re from a BME community, or would like a understanding of diversity contact: www.unitycornwall.org.uk or www.crec.org.uk
If you’re disabled, or would like a better understanding of disability, the Disability Act and access contact: www.disabilitycornwall.org.uk
If you want to know what’s going on at a local or strategic level, contact: www.cornwallinterlink.org.uk or http://cornwallvsf.org/
If you’re involved, or would like to be involved with Pre-Schools and need advice, contact:
www.pre-school.org.uk
If you want advice about how to recruit, manage and train volunteers, contact: www.ccfv.co.uk
If you need some checks or audits to assess your organisation, try ILCM: www.ilcm.org.uk
PQASSO: www.pcdt.org.uk
If you’d like advice about social enterprise: www.cornwallrcc.co.uk/community_enterprise.html

I need £!

This is a section of documents and web sites for you to look at if you require funding.
This page is regularly updated, so make sure you come and pay this page a visit at least once a month!

News!!

PCDT recruited a Funding Advisor in the summer! Contact Suzy on: suzym@pcdt.org.uk

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

www.cibsouthandwest.org.uk (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).
www.fundingcentral.org.uk (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) www.cornwallfoundation.com/applying_for_a_grant/current_grants.htm - a list of lots of lovely local grants! www.biglotteryfund.org.uk – look at all the funding available from the Big Lottery www.convergencecornwall.com – find out what Convergence is up to and how you could access some of this funding/benefits from one of its funded projects.
www.grantfinder.co.uk – ‘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.
www.governmentfunding.org.uk (costs £172.50 to be a member of this searchable database of government funding)

Have you ever thought about….

www.tendersincornwall.co.uk – 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!
Additional funding advice and guidance: www.funderfinder.org.uk/funding.php

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

www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk or www.farnhill.org.uk/presentation.php

… or perhaps trading as a Social Enterprise?

www.rise-sw.co.uk, www.co-active.org.uk,

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

www.charitybank.org
www.triodos.co.uk
www.futurebuilders-england.org.uk