We offer a range of services often free, including:

• Funding advice
• Advice on running your organisation,
• Help with finding volunteers.

Please note: we can only help groups, not individuals.

We also now offer some charged-for services, including bid writing and managing your accounts See the Charged-for Services page for more information.

Give and Receive Project

This Poole & Bournemouth project aims to link voluntary sector organisations with businesses.

Alex Wiggins (above) leads the project, and has had many successes matching charities and businesses to mutual benefit. For information on the successes already achieved by the project and how you might benefit from it go to our Links to Business page.

Free online HR Advice

The Cranfield Trust is a nationally respected charity providing free management consultancy for charities and social enterprise groups involved in issues of poverty, disability or social exclusion.

HRNet is a free online HR advice and information service from the Cranfield Trust for registered charities. Member organisations are able to post their HR queries onto a dedicated website and receive bespoke answers taking account of their own individual circumstances. These questions and answers are visible to everyone, enabling you to pick up useful information. Sensitive questions can be dealt with offline if necessary.

Other benefits of the service include a weekly newsletter which gives details of developments in employment law and practice, as well as access to a searchable repository of HR information. More information is available on the Cranfield Trust site under "Services".

If you are not a registered charity, remember you can bring your questions to Poole CVS.

For earlier News items, go to the News Archive page