Resources and Articles

Here you will find a variety of resources, articles, podcasts and much more about everything you could ever need to help your organisation grow!

Local information

COL Basildon Resident support – useful data on winter warm locations and organisations that can assist through the cost of living crisis.

The Community Micro Enterprise Project Directory – MARCH 2024

Homelessness Resources Booklet v1.6.1

Insurance

• Charity Insurance Guidance – Including Public Liability Insurance For Events, Trustee Indemnity And Brokers

Funding / Fundraising

• Charity Digital – Topics – How to pick a fundraising platform
• Podcasts on fundraising learning & education
• Donor Pulse Report: Summer 2022

Trustees

• Board Shadowing Webinar: What it is, how it benefits charities and getting involved

Funding Application Resources / Statistics

• Addiction Report – Healthwatch Essex 
• Living with Obesity: Men’s experiences of losing and gaining weight and the implications for policy and services
• Respond, recover, reset: 18 months of real-time research reveals how the charity sector changed through the pandemic
• Middle-Aged Men’s Men’s Experiences of Experiences of Mental Health Mental Health and Suicide – Healthwatch Essex
• Ethnic Inequalities in Healthcare: A Rapid Evidence
• Mind the Giving Gap Mind the Giving Gap: Unleashing the potential of UK philanthropy
• Nowhere else to turn: Exploring the high intensity use of Accident and Emergency services
• CLARiTY: Capacity Law and Rights Information to You
• COVID-19 Additional Relief Fund distribution data
• Healthy and safe communities
• Getting disabled people’s voices heard  – A new report from the Kings Fund, compiled with Disability Rights UK, provides insight into the experiences of disabled people in the UK, and makes recommendations for how health organisations and charities can improve.
• Supporting the supporters for people experiencing homelessness  – HW Alliance Homeless Health Consortium sets out findings from a consultation with frontline homelessness workers about their care and development needs.
• FareShare have supported the development of new guidance from the Food Standards Agency, specifically targeted to support food aid charities.
• Five reasons why understanding the law helps build safer organisations
• What makes an inspiring legacy fundraising campaign?
• Child safety and the Online Safety Bill

SEN / Visual / Hearing Impairment

• 999 BSL
• Visual Impairment Procedure – Essex Police

Volunteering

• Volunteering for Wellbeing Guide: how to link to social prescribing
• How to manage volunteers via CRM
• Writing volunteer role descriptions
• Time well spent: impact of covid-19 on the volunteer experience
• Big Help Out volunteering app 

General

• Podcast: Awareness days, are they a waste of time?
• Podcast: Everything we’ve learned about writing content
• Podcast: The essentials of effective online communication
• Free cyber security tools that can help charities
• How charities can work effectively with schools
• Time to flex: Embracing flexible working benefits and barriers in the voluntary sector
• How to make your office green
• Podcast: Digital transformation with purpose
• Homelessness management information – Ukrainian nationals
• Apply for community sponsorship:  a way that community groups can be involved in supporting the resettlement of vulnerable people fleeing conflict.
• Fundraiser recruitment – key insights & tips
• RevivR, The British Heart Foundation fast, free and easy-to-use online training course for CPR.

LGBTQIA

• Support services for LGBTQ+ victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse.