Welcome to the Enterprise Department
Contracting Staff and Secondment Opportunities
Often Voluntary and Community Organisations need extra capacity and don’t want to have to go through the rigmarole of recruiting a new member of staff.
It’s long winded, time consuming, costly and risky.
Sometimes you may need skills which your organisation currently doesn’t have – but you only need those skills for a short time – and quickly.
Sometimes you just want the job done by someone who is reliable with a track record and are nervous about contracting or employing someone you don’t know.
The Solution
These concerns, and more, can be solved by working with PCDT where you can buy-in the assistance of a senior level manager with many years experience in the voluntary and community sector at a very competitive rate.
How does it work?
Just make contact using the details below. Once we’ve both agreed that using the services of PCDT is appropriate for you, a rate is worked up and an agreement/contract is put together in collaboration with both you and PCDT.
Once this is agreed and signed by both parties then work can commence.
To discuss your requirements further or for any queries, please contact:
Tom Jane
tom@pcdt.org.uk
Enterprise Dept, PCDT, The Penwith Centre, Parade Street, Penzance, TR18 4BU
THE DETAIL
The services which are available to voluntary sector organisations via PCDT are as follows:
Problem solving: identifying problems, achieving shared recognition of these problems by your team or community via proven consultation techniques, working up plans and working together to bring about improvements and changes that will stick.
Communication: both internal and external approaches to communicating your message.
Feasibility Analysis: thinking about a project or enterprise but don’t know if it will stack up?
Business Planning and co-writing of funding bids
Research – both desk based and primary research to evidence the need for your work
Project initiation/set-up
Event Management from conception though to post event evaluation
Coordination and preparation for external assessments, such as MATRIX or ILCM
Community Development and experience in Infrastructure Support and Representation.
Past and Current Contracts:
Basset Community Development Trust: Successful application for funding and support with a Feasibility Study and subsequent Business Plan.
East Cornwall CVS: Research Project – The Needs of the Voluntary and Community Sector in the Caradon Area, which has turned into a regular weekly secondment with ECCVS.
Cornwall Voluntary Sector Forum: Local Area Agreement support and VCS Survey Work and subsequent 6 month maternity cover placement including delivering representation training and coordinating the creation of a set of mini films about the sector.
Cornwall Infrastructure Partnership: Authoring their strategy and Business Plan.
IVO – The Independent Voluntary Organisations Children's Workforce Development Network for Cornwall: Annual Review facilitation and development of their Annual Action Plan.
Lizard Outreach Trust: Supported them with a fuller complement of policies to enable them to employ staff confidently. Since then, PCDT are now contracted one day a week to take the Charity forward in terms of fund generation, business planning, trustee development and operational level support.
