- Community Development
- Community Sector
- Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE)
National charity whose purpose is to support sustainable rural community development, providing a national platform for to alleviate rural disadvantage in England. ACRE works closely with Government departments, regional and local bodies, to ensure that the impact of policies on rural communities are understood. - Adept
Community development and capacity building agency delivering project work, training and consultancy at local and national levels. - British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres (bassac)
Membership network of multi-purpose community organisations. bassac represents its members at a national level and offers them strategic support and a range of services. - Communities First
Consortium of eight national voluntary sector organisations that work across Wales providing support to those involved in the Communities First programme. The Communities First programme is a long-term strategy for improving the living conditions and prospects for people in the most disadvantaged communities in Wales. - Community Development Exchange
Membership-led organisation, aiming to bring about positive changes towards social justice and equality by using and promoting the values and approaches of community development, sharing information, experience and practice. - Community Development Foundation
Aims to help communities achieve greater control over the conditions and decisions affecting their lives by:
advising government and other bodies, supporting community work of all kinds, carrying out research, evaluation and policy analysis to identify good practice in all aspects of community development. - Community Foundation Network
The national network linking, promoting and supporting over 60 community foundations throughout England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. A fast growing way of giving, community foundations are charitable trusts that promote and support local voluntary and community activity. - Directory of Social Change
Provide help to voluntary and community organisations as an independent source of information and support, and speak out on issues affecting the sector to promote and protect the interests of the voluntary and community sector as a whole. - National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA)
NAVCA is the growing network of over 300 Councils for Voluntary Service (CVS) throughout England. They help to promote voluntary and community action by supporting member CVS and by acting as a national voice for the local voluntary and community sector. - Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation
National charity specialising in community participation, training and development. Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation works with local authorities, housing associations, voluntary agencies and community groups, aiming to improve the well-being of communities. - Quest Trust
Web portal for everyone involved in community activity providing information pages that are a mix of news, weblinks, events, contacts and Quest resources to follow up. - The Scarman Trust
National charity that provides funding and a range of practical, personal and comprehensive support to people with a 'can do' attitude through a combination of assistance from experienced local teams and by plugging individuals into appropriate networks.
- Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE)
- Enterprise and Business
- Business Community Connections
Aims to assist registered charities and organisations carrying out a charitable purpose to obtain assistance from business to further those charitable purposes. Business support ranges from cash donations and sponsorship to employee volunteering and gifts-in-kind. - Business in the Community
A movement of over 700 of the UK’s top companies committed to improving their positive impact on society. Business in the Community aims to inspire, challenge, engage and support business in continually improving its positive impact on society. - Community Action Network
Community Action Network is the UK's leading organisation for the development and promotion of social entrepreneurs. The central CAN team and CAN's members deliver high quality projects in almost every field of social change and service delivery, from homelessness to schools and from healthcare to recycling. - Community Enterprise Wales
The network for organisations and individuals who are committed to developing community enterprise in Wales. Its main aims are to promote the development of community enterprise in Wales and encourage expansion and co-ordination of resources for community businesses. - Companies House
The main functions of Companies House are to: incorporate and dissolve limited companies; examine and store company information delivered under the Companies Act and related legislation; and make this information available to the public. - Social Enterprise Coalition (SEC)
Shares best practice and influences policy in order to create an enabling environment for social enterprise. - Social Entrepreneurial Organisations
Web site created by social entrepreneurs for social entrepreneurs and those who work with them aiming to raise the profile of social entrepreneurial organisations and help them to deliver even more cutting edge solutions.
- Business Community Connections
- Housing
- Ethical Property Foundation
The Ethical Property Company buys properties and develops them as centres that bring charities, co-operatives, community and campaign groups together under one roof where they can share skills and ideas. They run an Advice Service that helps charities reduce the amount of time and money they spend on property issues.
- Housing Associations Charitable Trust (HACT)
A development agency that works to develop and promote solutions for people on the margins of mainstream housing by providing funding and advice to housing associations and other charitable agencies and providing housing and related services to badly housed and homeless people. - Joseph Rowntree Foundation
One of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy. The Foundation also carries out practical innovative projects in housing and care through the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. - National Housing Federation (NHF)
The National Housing Federation represents 1,400 independent, not-for-profit housing associations in England and is the voice of affordable housing. - Tenants Participation Advisory Service (TPAS)
A national non-profit making organisation that provides information, advice, training, consultancy, seminars and conferences on all aspects of involving tenants in their housing management.
- Ethical Property Foundation
- Regeneration
- British Urban Regeneration Association
Formed in 1990 to promote best practice in regeneration and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, experience and information for the emerging regeneration sector. - Child Poverty Action Group
CPAG is the leading charity campaigning for the abolition of poverty among children and young people in the UK and for the improvement of the lives of low-income families. - Development Trusts Association
Promotes the work of development trusts, advocates on their behalf by commenting on and contributing to public policy developments, briefing and lobbying central and local government, and liasing with a wide range of organisations at regional, national and European level. - New Start
Weekly news magazine in the UK for all involved in community regeneration providing news, comment and analysis for all concerned with regeneration, physical, economic and social, and to stimulate debate and discussion of policy. - People for Action
A network for housing and regeneration organisations throughout England and Wales which aims to put power and influence into the hands of local people. - Regen.net
The information network for regeneration partnerships. This is also the website for Regeneration & Renewal magazine, which contains the latest information and news in the Regeneration and Renewal sector. - Renewal.net
On-line guide to what works in neighbourhood renewal. Documents on the site include how to guides, case studies, project summaries and more. renewal.net has been developed to fulfil one of the commitments of the Government's National Strategy Action Plan for neighbourhood renewal. - The Glass House
The Glass House offers design courses, advice and support to tenants, residents and professionals working in neighbourhoods undergoing change and renewal. - Urban Forum
Umbrella body for community and voluntary groups with interests in urban and regional policy, especially regeneration. The aims of Urban Forum are to provide a strong voluntary sector voice on urban and regional policy and the promotion of sustainable regeneration initiatives.
- British Urban Regeneration Association
- Voluntary Sector
- Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO)
A professional organisation in the third sector that is dedicated to chief executives, working solely to connect, develop and represent the sector's leaders. - http://www.ourpartnership.org.uk/
Promotes best practice for individuals and organisations working in partnerships between the voluntary and public sectors. - National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA)
NAVCA is the growing network of over 300 Councils for Voluntary Service (CVS) throughout England. They help to promote voluntary and community action by supporting member CVS and by acting as a national voice for the local voluntary and community sector. - National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
NCVO works with and for the voluntary sector in England by providing information, advice and support and by representing the views of the sector to government and policy-makers. - Resources for the voluntary sector
VolResource aims to make it quick and easy to get to useful information on anything to do with running a voluntary organisation (whether a community group, charity or other non-profit body). - Volunteering England (formerly NAVB)
Volunteering England works to promote volunteering as a powerful force for change, both for those who volunteer and for the wider community. The web site offers a range of resources for anyone who works with or manages volunteers as well as to those who want to volunteer. - Wales Council for Voluntary Action
WCVA is the voice of the voluntary sector in Wales. They represent and campaign for voluntary organisations, volunteers and communities in Wales. - Women's Royal Voluntary Service
Voluntary organisation that works to support people in need who might otherwise feel lonely and isolated, whether at home, in hospital, or in times of crisis throughout England, Scotland and Wales.
- Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO)
- Community Sector
- General Community Interest
- Community Safety
- Crime Concern
An independent, not-for-profit organisation working to create safer communities in England and Wales by working with local people, community groups and crime and disorder agencies to reduce crime and create environments where everyone can lead their lives free from fear and intimidation. - safer-community.net
For local people working to create their own safer communities.
- Crime Concern
- Environmental
- Association for Conservation of Energy
Aims is to encourage a positive national awareness of the need for and benefits of energy conservation, to help establish sensible and consistent national policies and programmes, and to increase investment in all appropriate energy saving measures. - Countryside Agency
Working to conserve and enhance the countryside and improve the quality of life for people in the countryside. - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Aims to improve everyone's quality of life, now and for the future, through sustainable use of natural resources and is a focal point for all rural policy, relating to people, the economy and the environment. - Environment Agency
Protects and improves the environment throughout England and Wales. Their activities range from influencing Government policy and regulating major industries nationally, right through to day-to-day monitoring and clean up operations at a local level. - Federation of City Farms and Gardens
A charity that supports, promotes and represents city farms and community gardens throughout the UK. Members range from organic community orchards to pockets of urban space saved from development; from allotments to well-established city farms. - Friends of the Earth
The largest international network of environmental groups in the world. Inspires solutions to environmental problems which make life better for people. - Greenpeace
Independent non-profit global campaigning organisation using non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems and their causes. - Groundwork
Leading environmental regeneration charity making sustainable development a reality in communities in the UK which are in need of investment and support. - Grownupgreen
Aimed at encouraging and supporting households to think and act more sustainably in a lively, interactive and interesting way. - UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development
An independent, not-for-profit foundation that develops and promotes practicable sustainable development solutions for government, industry, non-governmental organisations and individuals.
- Association for Conservation of Energy
- Health and Well-being/Community Care
- Alcoholics Anonymous
Fellowship that offers support and advice to those affected by alcoholism, including a helpline, support groups and a 12-step recovery programme, as well as providing an information service for professionals. - Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health
Aims to ensure that the public is involved in decision making about health and provision of health services in England. There are 572 Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Forums, one for each NHS Trust in England working with all sectors of the community and finding out what people really think about health in their local areas. - Community Care
Website dedicated to all areas of the social care profession. - Community tool box for health
Practical guidance and support for promoting and improving community health and development. Provides over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics. Topic sections include step-by-step instruction, examples, check-lists, and related resources. - Frank
Website of the confidential drugs helpline with information and advice including a comprehensive a-z of drugs. - Gamblers Anonymous
Fellowship that offers support and advice to those affected by compulsive gambling, including a helpline, support groups and a 12-step recovery programme, as well as providing information regarding compulsive gambling. - Health Development Agency
Special health authority that aims to improve the health of people in England and reduce health inequalities. - health-activist.net
Setting up and running community health activist training courses to enable local people to take part in and shape initiatives and decisions that affect the health of individuals and communities. - Mind
The leading mental health charity in England and Wales working to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress by challenging discrimination, influencing policy and achieving equal rights through campaigning and education inspiring the development of quality services.
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- International and EU
- Association of Voluntary Service Organisations
International, non-governmental organisation, forming a European platform of national and international non-profit organisations active in the field of longer term voluntary service - Charitynet
A dedicated charity information site, designed to benefit anyone with an interest in philanthropy, wherever they are in the world. - Community Matters
American organisation that offers advice, support and training to those who want to improve their communities focusing on community building, positive youth development, organizational effectiveness and partnerships & coalitions. - European Commission
Provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. - European Commission Representation in the UK
EU information sources in the UK, also supports the decentralised provision of information about the European Union across the UK through recognised outlets such as public libraries, business advice centres and education services. - European Information Network in the UK
Portal to a UK-wide network of suppliers of information about Europe, some official and some not. - Idealist
Worldwide database of voluntary organisations - International Federation of Settlements
Brings together local, regional, and national organisations and individual supporters working to strengthen communities. Aims to promote practical co-operation among community organisations in different countries. - One World
News from around the world with accent on promoting human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide.
- Association of Voluntary Service Organisations
- Media/Communications
- CampaignON
Allows campaigners to set up their own fully-fledged web site. It offers a powerful tool for lobbying decision makers locally, nationally or internationally. You can use CampaignON.com to campaign on any issue. - Community Network
The voluntary sector's provider-of-choice for bringing people together through telephone conferencing. - Community Newswire
The newswire aims to make it as easy as possible for community and voluntary groups who currently have little contact with the media, to make their voices heard. A joint initiative between The Press Association (PA) and the Media Trust, funded by the Active Community Unit within the Home Office. - Etribes
Internet solutions company that specialises in providing online community consultancy, development and hosting for businesses, charities, associations and public sector organisations. - Guardian – Society
The Society section of the Guardian newspaper’s website. Contains news and interactive debates. - News To Use
News to Use is a news service to help anyone producing a newsletter, newspaper or website or radio for their community. Members get an email ten times a year giving links to all the new items that have been posted on this website. - Ruralnet UK
UK rural development charity site - The Experience Corps
The Experience Corps has over 493,000 imaginative and innovative voluntary work opportunities on its database. The organisation also provides other services including a data base of members that can be drawn upon to provide evidence to inform public policy and delivery programmes. - The Policy Press
Specialist publisher in the UK of social and public policy books, reports, journals and guides.
- CampaignON
- Miscellaneous
- Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector
ARVAC (The Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector)is a membership organisation and acts as a resource for people interested in research in or on community organisations.
- CEMVO
CEMVO is a registered charity established in 1999. CEMVO is committed to extending opportunities to people from the most disadvantaged communities in the UK. We strengthen the community by:
- Providing a voice for Britain's minority ethnic voluntary & community sector
- Building the capacity of community based organisations
- Securing assets for the community
- Formulating policies and conducting research
- Promoting volunteering
- Providing training & consultancy services
For more information please visit, http://www.cemvo.org.uk or call 020 8432 0000 - Citizens Advice Bureau – Advice Guide
- Citizenship Foundation
Aims to empower individuals to engage in the wider community through education about the law, democracy and society. - Community Group
A very comprehensive public interest website focused on creating and uniting your community. - Federation of Stadium Communities
The FSC offers information, advice and support to community groups living in the vicinity of sports stadia, as well as to the sports clubs themselves and to local authorities. - In Place of Strife
Provides a complete mediation service. - Joseph Rowntree Foundation
One of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy. The Foundation also carries out practical innovative projects in housing and care through the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. - Living Streets
Work on practical projects to create safe, vibrant and healthy streets for all. - National Playing Fields Association
The UK's only national organisation which has specific responsibility for acquiring, protecting and improving our fast disappearing playing fields and playgrounds. - Voluntary Arts Network
VAN works with policy makers, funders and politicians to improve and promote participation in the arts and crafts and provides information and training to those who participate in the voluntary arts sector.
- Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector
- Training & Education
- Action Learning Sets for Managers
Partnership project for managers at all levels within the voluntary and community sector. Managers support each other's learning by tackling real issues, problems or opportunities in a small group called an Action Learning set. - Department for Education and Skills (DFES)
Aims to give children an excellent start in education, enable young people to equip themselves with life and work skills, and encourage adults to achieve their full potential through learning. - Federation for Community Development Learning
Supporting the development of communities through advancing and promoting community development learning at local, regional and national levels and creating relevant opportunities for good quality training and qualifications. - Inside Track
Offers a range of consultancy and training services, such as fundraising, business planning and capacity building to organisations across the UK. - National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)
Non-governmental organisation working for more and different adult learners. - The Policy Press
Specialist publisher in the UK of social and public policy books, reports, journals and guides. - Voluntary Sector Skills
Information and news on workforce skills development within the voluntary and community sector - for paid staff, volunteers and trustees.
- Action Learning Sets for Managers
- Volunteering
- Do-it
National database of volunteering opportunities in the UK. do-it is part of the charity YouthNet. - Millenium Volunteers
Volunteering programme aimed at young people aged 16-24. Aims to encourage young people to develop themselves and make a difference to their community at the same time. - Nabuur.com
Nabuur.com's mission is to give communities in developing countries access to their global Neighbours via the Internet. In the online discussions on NABUUR.COM the representative of the local community and his/her Neighbours work together to find solutions for the community’s problems. - National Council for Voluntary Youth Services
Independent national body which represents and supports voluntary organisations working with young people in England. - Reach
Matches the skills of experienced people to the needs of voluntary organisations. - Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme
Exists to encourage the growing number of those aged fifty plus to participate in their local area in England, Scotland and Wales. - The Experience Corps
The Experience Corps has over 493,000 imaginative and innovative voluntary work opportunities on its database. The organisation also provides other services including a data base of members that can be drawn upon to provide evidence to inform public policy and delivery programmes.
- Do-it
- Community Safety
- Government Departments and Public Bodies
- Government Departments and Public Bodies
- Charity Commission
The Charity Commission is established by law as the regulator and registrar for charities in England and Wales. Their aim is to provide the best possible regulation of charities in England and Wales in order to increase charities' effectiveness and public confidence and trust. - Children and Young People's Unit (CYPU)
Supports cross-government work on child poverty and youth disadvantage, looking across the full 0-19 age range. CYPU has now been merged into the Department's Children, Young People and Families Directorate. You can still find information about CYPU programmes on this site until further notice. - Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Responsible for Government policy on the arts, sport, the National Lottery, tourism, libraries, museums and galleries, broadcasting, film, the music industry, press freedom and regulation, licensing, gambling and the historic environment. - Department for Education and Skills (DFES)
Aims to give children an excellent start in education, enable young people to equip themselves with life and work skills, and encourage adults to achieve their full potential through learning. - Department for Education and Skills – children and families
Temporary link to websites of government departments that relate to children and families. - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Aims to improve everyone's quality of life, now and for the future, through sustainable use of natural resources and is a focal point for all rural policy, relating to people, the economy and the environment. - Department of Health
Aims to improve the health and well-being of the people of England, providing health and social care policy, guidance and publications. - Department of Trade and Industry
Works with a wide range of individuals, groups and organisations, to increase UK productivity and competitiveness. The DTI aims to help people and companies become more productive by promoting enterprise, innovation and creativity. - Disability
Includes information on the Disability Discrimination Act and the Disability Rights Commission. This site together with the Government's new major website 'Directgov' represent steps taken to help people find out about their civil rights and to see more clearly how useful the Internet can be as a source for information. - Environment Agency
Protects and improves the environment throughout England and Wales. Their activities range from influencing Government policy and regulating major industries nationally, right through to day-to-day monitoring and clean up operations at a local level. - Health and Safety Executive
Britain's Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are responsible for the regulation of almost all the risks to health and safety arising from work activity in Britain. Their mission is to protect people's health and safety by ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled. - Home Office - Active Communities Directorate
The Active Communities Directorate has a vision of a society where the voluntary and community activity flourishes and where all individuals and communities are enabled to play a full part in civil society. They aim to ensure that the support, assistance and means exist to enable that vision to become reality. - Home Office - Community Cohesion Unit
Aims to promote a cohesive community working to review government policy and encourage and facilitate new learning through the Community Cohesion Pathfinder Programme. - Neighbourhood Renewal Unit
Aiming to deliver economic prosperity, safe communities, high quality education, decent housing, and better health to the poorest parts of the country.
- Social Exclusion Unit
Works to ensure effective Government action to promote inclusive and sustainable communities. - UK Youth Parliament
An independent national charity which receives the support of over 300 MPs from across the political spectrum and the personal endorsement of the three party leaders. Aims to empower young people to take positive action within their local communities based upon their issues of concern.
- Charity Commission
- Government Departments and Public Bodies
- Management
- Community Buildings
- Ethical Property Foundation
The Ethical Property Company buys properties and develops them as centres that bring charities, co-operatives, community and campaign groups together under one roof where they can share skills and ideas. They run an Advice Service that helps charities reduce the amount of time and money they spend on property issues.
- Peppercorn Rent
Website for community sector organisations who occupy community premises. Provides community sector organisations with information on matters relating to leases, commercial market rents, rent grant aid, peppercorn rents and provides an opportunity for community sector organisations to record information about their circumstances and thus build a database of factual information to assist advocacy locally and nationally.
- Ethical Property Foundation
- Financial Management
- Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
The UK wide support organisation for grant-making trusts and foundations of all types. ACF helps trusts to use their time and funds in the most effective way. - Association of Charity Independent Examiners
Exists to provide: support and training for anyone acting (or wishing to act) as an Independent Examiner of charity accounts. ACIE can also help charities that are seeking to appoint an Independent Examiner by putting them in touch with suitably qualified members in their area. - Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
International non-governmental organisation providing specialist financial services to charities and their supporters. CAF is committed to increasing the resources of charities and helping individual and corporate donors add value to their generosity. - Charities Information Bureau
Supporting voluntary organisations and community groups in funding their work and supporting funding advisors and agencies in giving funding advice. - Charities' Tax Reform Group
Campaigns on behalf of charities to seek changes in tax legislation and administration. - Charity Bank
Savers and depositors providing financial and social returns from savings and deposit accounts that invest only in charity and not-for-profit organisations, and charity borrowers providing affordable finance, advice and assistance, available solely for charities and community enterprise. - Community Accountancy Self Help
Aims to provide people with the basic financial skills needed to run successful charities and voluntary organisations. - Community Accounting Plus
Membership based organisation enabling good management in voluntary organisations. Website contains practical information on accounts, bookkeeping and managing staff. - Financial Services Authority
Independent body that regulates the financial services industry in the UK. - Inland Revenue
Pages from the Inland Revenue website that provide information to help a Charity. - NCVO Financial Management Pages
The new Voluntary Sector Financial Management website from NCVO supported by Halifax containing a range of resources to help manage the finances of organisations. - New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)
Charity that carries out independent research and analysis on where and how funds and resources can be targeted most effectively aiming to increase the quality and quantity of funding and other resources for charities that are tackling deprivation, disadvantage and degradation.
- Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
- Fundraising
- Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
The UK wide support organisation for grant-making trusts and foundations of all types. ACF helps trusts to use their time and funds in the most effective way. - Awards for all
A Lottery grants programme aimed at local communities awarding grants of between £500 and £5000 in a simple straightforward way. - Big Lottery Fund
New organisation that will hand out half the money for good causes from the National Lottery aiming to make it easier to apply for Lottery money and for the public to see where the money goes. The Big Lottery Fund was created by merging the New Opportunities Fund and the Community Fund. - Charities Information Bureau
Supporting voluntary organisations and community groups in funding their work and supporting funding advisors and agencies in giving funding advice. - Community Development Finance Association (CDFA)
The trade association for Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs). CDFIs are sustainable, independent financial institutions that provide capital and support to enable individuals or organisations to develop and create wealth in disadvantaged communities or under-served markets. - Community Fund
Distributes money raised by the Lottery to support charities and voluntary groups aiming to give grants mainly to help meet the needs of those at greatest disadvantage in society, and also to improve the quality of life in the community. - Funder Finder
Develops and distributes software to help individuals and not-for-profit organisations in the UK to identify charitable trusts that might give them money. Funder Finder also produces general information on aspects of funding and fund-raising, which you can access online. - Funders Online
Funders Online is an initiative of the European Foundation Centre Orpheus Programme. Orpheus, the information and communications programme of the EFC, provides a public record and a public information service on foundations and corporate funders active in Europe. - Funding Information
Online fundraising information resource for charities, voluntary organisations, community groups, local authorities, social enterprises and other not for profit organisations throughout the UK. - Funds for Historic Buildings
Guide to funding for anyone seeking to repair, restore or convert for a new use any historic building in England and Wales. - Futurebuilders
New £125 million government investment fund, backed by the Home Office, but being run by people from the voluntary sector, which aims to increase the role that the voluntary and community sector plays in the delivery of public services. - Government Funding
Online portal to grants for the voluntary and community sector from the following funders: Department for Education and Skills, Department of Health, Home Office, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Government Offices for the Regions. - GrantsNet
Offers comprehensive information about grant schemes available to businesses and charities in the UK.
GrantsNet aims to reduce the efforts and costs, of identifying and applying for a grant. - Heritage Lottery Fund
The Heritage Lottery Fund uses money from the National Lottery, giving grants to support a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom. - Lottery Monitor
The UK's leading independent source of information on lottery funding issues and the only newsletter of its kind. - Millennium Commission
Assists communities in marking the close of the second millennium and celebrating the start of the third. The Commission uses money raised by the National Lottery to encourage projects throughout the nation which enjoy public support and which will be lasting monuments to the achievements and aspirations of the people of the United Kingdom. - National Lottery
Camelot's official website. - National Lottery Commission
The Commission does not handle any applications for Lottery funds or distribute any Lottery money but
monitors and reports on the performance of Camelot (the operator), and to enforce its licence. - NCVO – Sustainable Funding Project
Aims to encourage and enable voluntary and community organisations to explore and exploit a full range of funding and financing options to develop a sustainable funding mix. - Profunding
Online fundraising information resource for charities, voluntary organisations, community groups, local authorities, social enterprises and other not for profit organisations throughout the UK. - Sport England
Good links to possible sources of funding for sporting activities. - The Carnegie Trust
Supports research, public policy analysis and grass roots social action initiatives.
- Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)
- Health and Safety
- Child Accident Prevention Trust
National charity committed to reducing the number of children and young people killed, disabled and seriously injured as a result of accidents. Provides information and advice aiming to increase knowledge of what works in preventing childhood accidental injury. - Department of Health
Aims to improve the health and well-being of the people of England, providing health and social care policy, guidance and publications. - Health and Safety Executive
Britain's Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are responsible for the regulation of almost all the risks to health and safety arising from work activity in Britain. Their mission is to protect people's health and safety by ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled.
- Child Accident Prevention Trust
- Human Resources
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)
Aims to improve organisations and working life through better employment relations. Provides up-to-date information, independent advice, high quality training. - Criminal Records Bureau
An executive agency of the Home Office - set up to help organisations make safer recruitment decisions. By providing wider access to criminal record information, the CRB helps employers in the public, private and voluntary sectors identify candidates who may be unsuitable for certain work, especially that involving contact with children or other vulnerable members of society. - Equality Direct
Designed to give business managers easy access to authoritative and joined-up advice on a wide range of equality issues.
- Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)
- Information Technology
- Charity IT Resource Alliance
Alliance formed between eight key charity sector bodies to help improve access to relevant and trusted IT information, people and resources. - Communities Online
A not-for-profit registered company that exists to address issues of sustainability, regeneration, social inclusion and healthier economies by focusing on the use of new communications technologies in communities and neighbourhoods. - Computanews
Jargon-free bi-monthly magazine computanews and the computanews guides provide straightforward, clear information on the use of IT for advice and information workers. - Computing for Communities
Online manual devised as a development tool to help community organisations from mannual recording to electronics means. - ICT Hub
The ICT Hub is a partnership of national voluntary and community organisations. This partnership provides a range of services to help voluntary and community sector organisations benefit from ICT. - IT4Communities
Register of companies, employees and individuals with professional IT skills to volunteer these skills for the benefit of local charities and community groups. - ITforCharities
Website to give non-profit organisations free information on IT products, services and technology appropriate to UK charities. Also offers IT consultancy solely to charities and the non-profit sector, and specialises in offering independent advice on database software, system procurement and IT strategy. - LASA knowledgebase
Wide-ranging source of information on IT use in the voluntary sector. - PcPro
Magazine that contains high-tech reviews, news and articles about general IT developments. - Techatlas
Online tool that guides you through the process of planning IT. Basic tools are always free but there is an annual charge Enhanced tools. - UKriders
Email discussions list for UK 'circuit riders'. Circuit Riders provide ICT support to voluntary sector organisations too small to have IT staff of their own. - Webwise
The BBC guide to using the internet including an ‘Absolute Beginners Guide’ - Whatis
Database of technical IT terms and jargon knowledge that contains over 4,500 individual encyclopedic definition/topics, a number of "Fast Reference" pages and learning tools. The topics contain about 12,000 hyperlinked cross-references between definition-topics and to other sites for further information.
- Charity IT Resource Alliance
- Legal Services
- Liberty Guide to Human Rights – Voluntary Sector Advice Service
Contains general information about the Human Rights Act, answers to frequently asked questions, recent case summaries and detailed advice to help you advise your service users. - National Association for Youth Justice
Promote the rights of, and justice for, children in trouble. - Professionals 4 Free
Designed as a simple signposting website for voluntary and community groups, with some general information and links to the main brokers who match requests for help with offers of free (or, in some cases, subsidised) professional services. - VolResource
Pages of the VolResource website that relate to legal advice for voluntary and community organisations.
- Liberty Guide to Human Rights – Voluntary Sector Advice Service
- Licensing (Alcohol, Gambling, Music etc.)
- Department for Culture Media and Sport - Alcohol & Entertainment
Responsible for the reform of licensing law relating to the supply of alcohol, the provision of regulated entertainment and the provision of late night refreshment in England and Wales. - Gaming Board for Great Britain
The regulatory body for casinos, bingo clubs, gaming machines and the larger society and all local authority lotteries in Great Britain. Ensures that those involved in gaming and lotteries are fit and proper to do so and to keep gaming free from criminal infiltration and that gaming and lotteries are run fairly and in accordance with the law. Also advises the Secretary of State on developments in gaming and lotteries so that the law can respond to change. - Performing Right Society (PRS)
PRS collects licence fees for the public performance and broadcast of musical works from all public places where music is heard. - Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
The UK collecting society for record companies and performers. PPL licenses broadcasters and other music users who use sound recordings in public.
- Department for Culture Media and Sport - Alcohol & Entertainment
- Performance Evaluation/Measure
- Charities Evaluation Service
A source of information on evaluation and quality in the voluntary sector. The charity was established in 1990 with support from the Home Office, charitable trusts and corporate funders to help strengthen the voluntary sector. - The Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector
Organisation that aims to promote effective community action through research. - UK Evaluation Society
Exists to promote and improve the theory, practice, understanding and utilisation of evaluation and its contribution to public knowledge and to promote cross-sector and cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate.
- Charities Evaluation Service
- Risk Management
- Charity Commission – Charities and Risk Management
This guidance sets out basic principles and strategies that can be applied to most charities.
- Charity Commission – Charities and Risk Management
- Community Buildings
- People, Equality and Diversity
- Black and Ethnic Minority
- Black Britain
Compendium of regular news and information services to the Black and ethnic minority communities. Aims to address the shortcomings of mainstream media which continues to cover Black and ethnic minority news interest negatively and/or inadequately. - Black Information Link
The 1990 trust’s independent community interactive site for black communities. - Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG)
National organisation that aims to achieve measurable improvements for black people nationally, in four key areas: Employment, Economic Regeneration, Education and Enterprise through a range of lobbying and support activities. - Blacknet UK
News site that encourages communities to rise above racism and promote cultural respect within society with a view to reduce cultural conflict and misunderstandings. - Chinese in Britain Forum
Works to promote equal access to public resources and services for Chinese people living in the UK, and to assist the voluntary sector to participate effectively in voluntary activities and community development. - Commission for Racial Equality
A publicly funded, non-governmental body set up under the Race Relations Act 1976 to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality. Works in both the public and private sectors to encourage fair treatment and to promote equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of their race, colour, nationality, or national or ethnic origin. - Confederation of Indian Organisations
CIO's Mission is to support the development of South Asian organisations and strengthen their infrastructure through its skilled and customer-orientated specialised teams providing high quality services that strengthen South Asian organisations and a strong voice on policy issues that affect South Asian organisations. - Institute of Race Relations
Research and analysis that informs the struggle for racial justice in Britain and internationally. concentrates on responding to the needs of Black people and making direct analyses of institutionalised racism in Britain and the rest of Europe. - Race on the Agenda
Policy development, information and research service for the Black voluntary sector in London. Works to inform London's strategic decision makers about issues affecting the Black voluntary sector and the communities it serves and ensuring representation in the development of policy. - Runnymede Trust
Acts as a bridge-builder between various minority ethnic communities and policy makers. Concentrates on building and developing effective partnerships with the voluntary sector, the government, local authorities and companies in the UK and Europe. - The Ethnic Minority Foundation (EMF)
Committed to extending opportunities to people from the most disadvantaged communities in the UK, by playing a leading role in: building capacity within minority ethnic community organisations; stimulating increased participation in regeneration and neighbourhood renewal; Influencing policy and practice at local, regional and national level by responding to key research and policy papers.
- Black Britain
- Children and Young People
- 4 Children
National charity dedicated to creating opportunities and building futures for children. Aims to ensure that all children and their parents get the support they need in their community. - 4 Nations Child Policy Network
A partnership between the National Children's Bureau (with NCVCCO), Children in Northern Ireland, Children in Scotland and Children in Wales. Website contains information on the latest policy developments relating to children and young people in each of the four nations and across the UK. - Barnardo's
The UK's leading children's charity, supporting 100,000 children and their families through 361 services in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Barnardo's runs services that help the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential. - British Youth Council
The national youth council for young people in the UK aged under 26. Aims to bring young people together to agree on issues of common concern and encourage them to bring about change through taking collective action. - Bullying Online
Website that provides help and advice for parents, pupils, schools and a range of others potentially affected by bullying. - Child Accident Prevention Trust
National charity committed to reducing the number of children and young people killed, disabled and seriously injured as a result of accidents. Provides information and advice aiming to increase knowledge of what works in preventing childhood accidental injury. - ChildLine
Free 24-hour helpline for children and young people in the UK. Children and young people can call 0800 1111 about any problem, at any time - day or night. - Children and Young People's Unit (CYPU)
Supports cross-government work on child poverty and youth disadvantage, looking across the full 0-19 age range. CYPU has now been merged into the Department's Children, Young People and Families Directorate. You can still find information about CYPU programmes on this site until further notice. - Children's Society
Works with and for children to help them deal with life's harshest challenges and face the future with confidence. Seeks to ensure that whatever disadvantages a child faces they still have a real chance in life. - Connexions
UK Government's strategy to ensure every young person aged 13-19 living in England gets the best start in life. Offers information, advice, services and practical help on various issues affecting young people. - Department for Education and Skills – children and families
Temporary link to websites of government departments that relate to children and families. - Funky Dragon
The Children and Young People’s Assembly for Wales - is a peer-led organisation aiming is to give 0 – 25 year olds the opportunity to get their voices heard on issues that affect them. Funky Dragon’s main tasks are to make sure that the views of children and young people are heard, particularly by the Welsh Assembly Government, and to support participation in decision-making at national level. - Help Yourselves
Help Yourselves is designed to give young people support so that they can get more involved in their communities. Created by Save the Children and British Gas, it gives young people in Britain the chance to develop local projects and speak out on issues that affect them. - Millennium Volunteers
Volunteering programme aimed at young people aged 16-24. Aims to encourage young people to develop themselves and make a difference to their community at the same time. - National Association for Youth Justice
Promote the rights of, and justice for, children in trouble. - National Children's Bureau
Umbrella body for the children’s sector in England and Northern Ireland, providing information on policy, research and best practice for members and other partners. Promotes the interests and well-being of all children and young people across every aspect of their lives. - National Council for Voluntary Child Care Organisations
Umbrella organisation for voluntary child care organisations in England aiming to ensure the well-being and safeguarding of children by promoting the voluntary sector's contribution to the provision of services. - National Council for Voluntary Youth Services
Independent national body which represents and supports voluntary organisations working with young people in England. - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
The UK's leading charity specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children and the only UK children's charity with statutory powers that enable it to take action to safeguard children at risk of abuse. - National Youth Agency
Funded primarily by the Local Government Association and government departments to support and improve work with young people and to promote young people's personal and social development, and their voice, influence and place in society. - NCH Action for Children
Aims to improve the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and young people by offering them diverse, innovative and responsive services and by campaigning for change. - Prince’s Trust
UK charity that helps young people overcome barriers and get their lives working. The Prince’s Trust helps 14-30 year olds realise their potential and transform their lives through practical support including training, mentoring and financial assistance. - Purple Youth
Online resource for professionals working with young people. - Russell Commission
Established to develop a new national framework for youth action and engagement. - TheSite.org
Provides support and information for young people. TheSite.org is owned and run by YouthNet UK. - UK Youth Parliament
An independent national charity which receives the support of over 300 MPs from across the political spectrum and the personal endorsement of the three party leaders. Aims to empower young people to take positive action within their local communities based upon their issues of concern. - Youthinformation.com
Information resource for young people including over 1,000 information topics and contact details for more than 1,200 national organisations.
- 4 Children
- Disability
- BCODP (British Council of Disabled People)
The UK's national organisation of the worldwide Disabled People's Movement set up by disabled people to promote full equality and participation in UK society. - British Deaf Association
Represents the Deaf community, a community united by shared experiences, history and, above all, by a common language: British Sign Language. This site contains the latest information about the British Deaf Association, British Sign Language and the Deaf community. - Dial UK
National organisation for a network of 160 local disability information and advice services run by and for disabled people. - Disability
Includes information on the Disability Discrimination Act and the Disability Rights Commission. This site together with the Government's new major website 'Directgov' represent steps taken to help people find out about their civil rights and to see more clearly how useful the Internet can be as a source for information. - Disability Rights Commission
An independent body established in April 2000 by Act of Parliament to stop discrimination and promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. - Disabledinfo.com
Provide information, help, advice, products and services, for disabled people, their families, friends and carers. - Empower
The Charities Consortium of Users of Prosthetics, Orthotics, Wheelchairs, Electronic Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation services, formed by the Limbess Association campaigns for a "National NHS LOOK" meeting Individual needs for Independence. - Foundation for People with Learning Difficulties
News and events on learning disability issues, as well as information on topics such as advocacy, accommodation and employment. - Mencap
Works with people with a learning disability and their families and carers to fight discrimination, campaign for greater opportunities and challenge attitudes and prejudice. They also provide advice and support to meet people's needs throughout their lives. - National Centre for Independent Living
Resource on independent living and Direct Payments for disabled people and others working in the field. - RADAR
Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation: pan-disability charity working to represent the needs, views and wishes of over 8.3 million people with all kinds of disabilities. - Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID)
Charity that aims to achieve a radically better quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people.
Provides a range of services for deaf and hard of hearing people and the professionals who work with them. - Royal National Institute for the Blind
Provides information, support and advice visually impaired people in the UK. - Scope
Organisation in England and Wales whose focus is people with cerebral palsy and related disabilities, their families and carers. Provides information and advice and carries out research into issues affecting disabled people and organises national and local campaigns. - Skill – National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
Skill is a national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK. - The Centre for Deaf Studies
Academic institution that concentrates solely on research and education that aims to benefit the deaf community. - UK Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee
Established by an Act of Parliament as an independent body to advise Government on the transport needs of all disabled people across the UK. Aims is to ensure that all disabled people can go where everyone else goes and that they can do so easily and without extra cost. - Yourable
Internet resource for disabled people: latest news, events and gossip and a bookstore integrating information, products and services into a community-based website.
- BCODP (British Council of Disabled People)
- Equality and Human Rights
- Citizens Advice Bureau – Advice Guide
- Liberty Guide to Human Rights – Voluntary Sector Advice Service
Contains general information about the Human Rights Act, answers to frequently asked questions, recent case summaries and detailed advice to help you advise your service users. - Social Inclusion Directory
The Social Inclusion Directory (SID) developed by Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme contains information about organisations and individuals working in the areas of gender, participation and social inclusion. - Stonewall
National civil rights group working for legal equality and social justice for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals aiming to create a professional lobbying group to put the case for equality on the mainstream political agenda by winning support within all the political parties.
- Citizens Advice Bureau – Advice Guide
- Families
- Family Services Unit (FSU)
One the UK's leading charities working with children and families working on development of modern day social work, creating new ways of engaging hard to reach, vulnerable and excluded families. - Home Start
Offers friendship, support and practical help to families with at least one child under five years old and offers direction, training, information and guidance to schemes and ensure consistent and quality support for parents and children. - National Family and Parenting Institute
Works to promote the well-being of families, and to make society more family friendly by researching the concerns of families and the support available, bringing together organisations and knowledge, influencing policy makers, providing information direct to families, and running public campaigns. - One Parent Families
Promotes the welfare of lone parents and their children aiming to build a fairer society for all families, in which lone parents and their children are not disadvantaged and do not suffer from poverty, isolation, or social exclusion. - Sure Start
Government programme which aims to improve the health and well-being of families and children before and from birth, so children are ready to flourish when they go to school. - Working Families
Helps children, working parents and carers and their employers find a better balance between responsibilities at home and work.
- Family Services Unit (FSU)
- Gender
- Age Positive
A team working in the Department for Work and Pensions responsible for strategy and policies to support people making decisions about working and retirement.
- Age Positive
- Lesbian, Gay and Bi-sexual
- Bi.org
Serving the worldwide bisexual community by providing a free Internet presence for bisexual individuals, groups and non-profit organisations, which includes a large set of pages detailing resources (groups, organisations, magazines, Internet newsgroups). - Citizen21 Project
Citizenship 21 is funded by the Community Fund, Columbia Foundation and Stonewall and was set up to tackle homophobia, build links and alliances with other communities who face prejudice and discrimination and increase awareness of the diversity of LGB communities. - Consortium of Lesbian, Gay and Bi-sexual voluntary and community organisations
Membership network of over 250 groups working in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities around the UK. Aims to promote volunteering within the LGB communities, and to strengthen, support and sustain the work of lesbian, gay and bisexual organisations. - Lesbian Information Service
Independent organisation providing support to lesbians of all ages and backgrounds through one-to-one support, support groups, helplines, publications, newsletter, pen-pal schemes, telephone and correspondence counselling, residentials, campaigns, training, projects. - National Friend
Umberella body supporting the national network of local helplines for those wanting information or support on issues relating to sexuality. - Press For Change
Political lobbying and educational organisation, which campaigns to achieve equal civil rights and liberties for all transgender people in the United Kingdom, through legislation and social change. - Queer Resources Directory
Electronic library with news clippings, political contact information, newsletters, essays, images, hyperlinks, and information resources of interest to the GLBO community.
- Bi.org
- Older People
- Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme
Exists to encourage the growing number of those aged fifty plus to participate in their local area in England, Scotland and Wales.
- Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme
- Religion and Faith
- Churches Community Work Alliance
A formal network of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland that regularly collaborate with a number of other voluntary organisations active in the community work field to support and encourage community development work in the life of the churches and promote good community development work practice. - Faith Based Regeneration Network (FbRN)
The Faith Based Regeneration Network (FbRN) is drawn from nine faith traditions: Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian. It was established in 2001 by and for regeneration practitioners who identify with faith traditions, or who work with or for faith community organisations.
- Churches Community Work Alliance
- Black and Ethnic Minority
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