Downloadable resources
- VAS Policies
- VAS Information Sheets
- VAS Reports
- Equalities
- ICT
- Finance
- Employing a worker / HR
- Setting up and running an organisation
- Funding and Procurement
- Volunteering
- Local partnerships
- Policy, research and consultations
- Voluntary Action News
- Training
VAS Policies
- VAS Comments & Complaints Policy
- VAS Equal Opportunities Policy
- VAS Funding Sponsorship Policy
- VAS Health & Safety Policy
- VAS IT Policy
- VAS Policy on Job Security & Redundancy
- VAS Policy on Liaison and Representation
- VAS Smoking Policy
- VAS Staff Recruitment & Selection Code of Practice
- VAS Staff Development and Performance Management
- VAS Supervision Good Practice
- VAS 'Ways of Working' Guidelines
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VAS Information Sheets
- Accessible Organisations
- Acquiring and Managing Premises
- Business Planning
- Charitable Limited Companies
- Constitutions
- Data Protection
- Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures
- Employing a Worker
- Handling Redundancies
- Health and Safety
- Insuring your Organisation
- Involving Volunteers
- Legal Status
- Management Committees
- Monitoring & Evaluation
- Starting Up
- Trading and Fundraising
VAS reports
Equalities
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- Acceptable Use Policy - the Framework
- IT Acceptable Use Policies
- Broadband
- Buying IT Equipment
- Choosing a Supplier
- Client Server Networks
- How to Choose a Consultant
- Peer-to-Peer Network
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Virus Prevention Checklist
- VAS IT Policy
Finance
- Stakeholder Pensions
- The Role of the Treasurer
- Charity Commission Requirements For Accounts
- Charges Sheet
- Preparing for Year End
Employing a worker/HR
- Employing a Worker
- Disciplinary and Greviance Procedures
- Parents & Carers at Work
- Handling Redundancies
- VAS Continuity of Employment Policy
- VAS Equal Opportunities Policy
- VAS Policy on Job Security & Redundancy
- VAS Policy on Liason and Representation
- VAS Smoking policy
- VAS Staff Recruitment & Selection Code of Practice
- VAS Staff Development & Performance Policy
- VAS 'Ways of Working' Guidelines
Setting up and running an organisation
Setting up a group or organisation
- Charitable Limited Companies
- Constitutions
- Legal Status
- Starting Up
- Community Interest Companies
- Starting a Community Group in Sheffield
Running a group or organisation
- Acquiring and Managing Premises
- Action Planning
- Business Planning
- Management Committees
- Closing Down
- Quality Assurance
- Trading and Fundraising
- Monitoring & Evaluation
- Health and Safety
- Insuring your Organisation
- Child and Vulnerable Adult Protection
- Data Protection
- VAS Comments & Complains Policy
Funding & procurement
- Procurement Mentor Scheme
- Procurement Support Leaflet
- Before Signing on the Dotted Line - A guide to enable small and medium sized organisations to navigate the complex rules, procedures and practices that constitute the public sector procurement process.
- Sheffield City Council procurement and contracting - Information on the procurement process and contracts available in Sheffield City Council.
- Trading and Fundraising
- VAS Funding Sponsorship Policy
Volunteering
Good Practice Guidelines
- Induction of Volunteers
- Involving Older Volunteers
- References for Volunteers
- Volunteering and Welfare Benefits
- Volunteer Policies
- Volunteer Recognition
- Young People as Volunteers
Refugees & Asylum Seekers
- CRB - example letter for unknown address history
- CRB checks for asylum seekers and refugees
- Expenses
- Level of English
- New beginnings DVD request form
- Pro-forma fingerprint request letter
- See Translated Resource for non-English language documents for communicating with people who do not speak English
Local Partnerships
- Supporting People - User Engagement Project
- Service User Consultation on Sheffield Supporting People - 5 Year strategy
- Sheffield Supporting People - Service User Involvement Strategy
- Sheffield First Partnership - Sheffield First Partnership is the Local Strategic Partnership for Sheffield. Its purpose is to coordinate the work of a range of different agencies and initiatives and to bring together a wide range of organisations to make Sheffield a successful city and to provide better lives for those who live here.
Compact and codes of practice
- Partnership Working Code of Practice
- Funding Code of Practice
- Consultation Code of Practice
- Disputes Procedure
- Sheffield City Council Compact
Policy and research
VAS responses to the consultation questions concerning the Charitable Incorporated Organisation - click here
VolResource - VolResource aims to make it quick and easy to get to useful information on anything to do with running a voluntary organisation (whether a community group, charity or other non-profit body)
- Office of the Third Sector - The Office of the Third Sector leads work across government to support the environment for a thriving third sector (voluntary and community groups, social enterprises, charities, cooperatives and mutuals), enabling the sector to campaign for change, deliver public services, promote social enterprise and strengthen communities
- Communities and Local Government – communities and neighbourhoods. Communities and Local Government sets policy on local government, housing, urban regeneration, planning and race equality and community cohesion related issues in England. It also has a particular brief to work with local organisations to create strong, attractive and economically thriving communities and neighbourhoods.
- The Compact - The Compact is the agreement between government and the voluntary and community sector to improve their relationship for mutual advantage and community gain. This website is provided by the Commission for the Compact, an independent organisation for the Compact, overseeing the relationship between government and the voluntary and community sector.
- Final Part of the Picture - Executive Summary and Final Report - a study forming part of an emerging and ongoing programme of research coordinated by South Yorkshire Open Forum into the nature and development of the Voluntary and Community Sector in South Yorkshire.
- UK Policy Online database - The Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Forum has developed this database to bring together significant regional and national policies - with a focus attention on those policies of most interest to voluntary and community organisations.