Newcastle CVS

The supporting and developing team at Newcastle CVS provides information and development support for voluntary and community organisations. We work with groups to enhance and develop their confidence, leadership and skills to develop their capacity to provide services within the community. We've worked with many new and established organisations over the years so we have lots of experience in helping build strong, healthy foundations for their organisations. We can help you too so contact us if you'd like help with

• setting up a new organisation
• choosing the right legal structure
• drafting a constitution or other governing document
• registering as a charity and help with charity law
• becoming a charitable company
• roles and responsibilities of management committee members or trustees
• running your organisation well
• policies and procedures
• working with other organisations from building links to developing partnerships and mergers
• planning and strategy
• trading and generating income
• funding and sustainability
• managing and running community buildings
• getting ready for commissioning
• issues around employing staff
• measuring what you are doing and its impact
• managing in a crisis or when things get difficult
• closing down
• signposting to other support and development organisations for specialist support

This isn't everything we do. If you're not sure whether we can help, please do call. Even if we can't help, we'll probably know someone who can.

How we work

We provide our supporting and developing service in one to one sessions, by phone, by email and via our askNCVS helpline. We also deliver help through training sessions, workshops and surgeries. We will aim to meet you as soon as possible but there may be a slight wait.

We work to build independent, strong, healthy organisations. We aim to help you recognise your own strengths and learn how to develop your own organisation.

Contact the team

• This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it on 0191 235 7016, for help on setting up a new organisation, charity registration, running your organisation well, closing down
• This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it on 0191 235 7033, for help on funding, trading, being sustainable, working with other organisations, planning, training
• This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it on 0191 235 7037, for general help related to your organisation