Funding Forum

Date: Thursday 15th April 2010

Time: 10.00 am to 12.00 pm with a light lunch following

Venue: The Bolton Hub

For more information, please download the meeting agenda. A light lunch will be provided after the Forum to allow time for networking and for groups to meet informally with speakers.

Speakers at this Funding Forum:

Comic Relief

They are currently running the following programmes: Mental health, Domestic and Sexual abuse, Refugee and Asylum Seeker Women, Sport for Change, Local Communities, Older People, Along with projects working with young people aged 11-25.

There is no minimum or maximum grant in most programmes, but where there are limits, these are clearly stated in the programme guidelines. Grants on average vary between £25,000 and £40,000 per year, and rarely exceed this upper limit.

Charity Builder

Charity Builder provide an interactive guide to Human Resources and Health & Safety compliance. The guide can help you produce documents such as contracts, policies and job descriptions and keep you up to date with any changes in legislation. The guide also provides information on insurance, governance and volunteering.

For more information about the Funding Forum, please contact Helen at helen@boltoncvs.org.uk or on 01204 546010.

Find out what was discussed at previous Funding Forums by reading past meeting minutes on the Funding Forum web page.