Organisation Support

Consulting, engaging, supporting, developing and representing communities.

CVS Falkirk & District offers assistance and support to communities, groups, voluntary organisations, social enterprises, co-operatives, trusts, CICs and other third sector groups locally.

As well as support from our staff, we have dedicated pages on:

From pre-start up advice, through growth and dissolution, we have advisors and training programmes to guide you.

Services include (but are not limited to):

Community consultation and Engagement
Quality (EFQM)
Start-up information
Drop-in events
Committee and board skills
Legal structures and constitutions
Complaints and governance
Grant funding and fund raising
Policies and procedures

In addition to the above, CVS Falkirk & District runs a comprehensive training programme with courses from 2 hours to a full day. A course can be dedicated to your organisation, or participants can join a scheduled course. We also host courses run by specialists in topics such as:

Tax for charities
Environmental and sustainability issues
Work place well-being
Leadership & management
Trading
Business and project plans
Tendering and procurement
Performance monitoring

CVS Falkirk & District Grant Funding Portal

Launched in autumn 2022, our Grant Funding Portal (GFP) has been designed to make the grant programmes we manage quicker, easier and more streamlined.

The GFP is a totally bespoke digital solution developed with the benefit of CVS Falkirk & District’s extensive experience of delivering funding support and the needs of Falkirk’s Third Sector in mind, and includes:

A dedicated web portal with detailed information on the grants we manage,
Secure storage of application and supporting documentation,
A single view dashboard showing pending and submitted applications across multiple grant programmes,
And updates on application status.

The portal is the result of considerable investment from ourselves at CVS Falkirk & District (plus support from our third sector partner Forth Environment Link and the Scottish Government’s Digital Boost Development Grant).

To register, please visit the Grant Funding Portal homepage.

Alternatively, for further information, view the full launch announcement.

Organisation Health Check

Getting into the habit of regularly reviewing the health of your organisation will help you to spot problem areas quickly, identify strengths and weaknesses, and encourage you to develop, implement and embed a continuous review process. Our health check questionnaire is aimed at assisting your organisation get into good shape and be more effective, as well as recognise areas requiring support and prioritising.

To find out more about the range of support CVS Falkirk offers third sector groups, please contact us.