Getting to grips with Governance

Knowing you have all your governing documents, policies and procedures in place means you can get on with delivering benefit for your community. But do you know what’s essential, what’s good to have, and what you might not need, to run your organisation well?

Getting to Grips with Governance will help you identify what you need to protect your organisation’s office bearers, users, staff or volunteers and ensure your organisation is effective, accountable, and acts responsibly.

This session will be useful to you if your organisation: -

• works in a rural or island location
• is small, grass roots and community led
• is unsure what policies it has or needs
• doesn’t have clear financial or reporting procedures in place

Community groups working in rural and island areas play a key role in supporting a wide range of local needs and priorities. But sometimes they struggle to raise the funds they need, or to manage, plan, measure or share the impact of what they do.

Our Getting to Grips With... programme provides targeted help and support to small, community-led, grass roots organisations who have not applied for Scottish Government, LEADER or Lottery funding before, or who have been unsuccessful with any of the applications they have made.

These free, one-hour online sessions give an introduction to six areas that organisations have told us they worry about, or lack skills in. These include fundraising, evaluation, planning for the future, and ensuring your organisation has all the right documents and procedures in place.

With limited numbers and small groups, each session will provide targeted advice, cover basic principles, some top tips, and include opportunities to share experience with rural organisations doing similar work.