Penwith Community Development Trust
PCDT 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 £!
- PCDT’s website has a page of funds
- PCDT also has a Funding Advisor
- 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:
I need volunteers!
- I want volunteers from the Penwith area: www.pvb.org.uk
- I want volunteers from the rest of Cornwall: www.ccfv.co.uk
I need skills and knowledge!
- There are many organisations in Cornwall offering training mostly for free, at the moment, some of these are:
