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Communication

Herts CVS Group continues to develop its thinking around this vital area of our role. Communication with member organisations (preferably 2-way) is at the heart of all the services provided by the CVS agencies. Put at its simplest, if you don’t know what we offer, how can your community-voluntary organisation benefit from the service?

 

Local ‘hard copy’ newsletters are sent out by many of the CVS agencies but these are an increasingly expensive means of distributing information. The cost and engagement with a ‘hard copy’ county-wide newsletter is an issue for us, so the Herts CVS Group now produces an electronic publication, entitled CVS Voice available from the ’newsletters’ section of this website and a monthly electronic news digest also avaiable by clicking on ’newsletters’.

 

Receipt of e-newsletters may place extra demands on your organisation such as the need to upgrade computers, Internet connections and printers. Remember that your local CVS is there to help you with funding advice.

 

£ind the £unding is an e-newsletter produced ten times per year by Herts CVS Group. Although it has obvious links to funding and the work of the Funding Advice Network, it is nevertheless another example of Herts CVS Group communication in action. If you are interested in fundraising for your organisation and do not already receive £ind the £unding, contact your local CVS today!

 

Herts CVS Group continues to implement a standardised database system, Volbase, for recording contact and other information about its Members. The initial phase of this was funded through the Herts Infrastructure Consortium (ChangeUp). Ultimately it is expected that this database will be compatable with web enabled services such as on-line membership forms. For those with concerns about data protection issues be assured that these are at the top of our agenda.

 

Herts CVS Group focuses particularly on its service to member organisations but much of our work is concerned with ensuring adequate communication (again 2-way) between our statutory and other partners and our members.

 


News & Events
Voluntary Sector Victory After LEP Decision
Friday, September 03, 2010
Voluntary organisations and social enterprises can now become key players in the new local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) following a challenge to the government from the sector....
Bookkeeper needed
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Watford CVS and the CVS in Three Rivers wish to appoint a Community Accountant / Bookkeeper   The post is for four days a week and the app...
Volunteer Management Portal
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Volunteering England’s Volunteer Management Portal acts as a gateway to the world of volunteer management with links to over a thousand resources and information on support, tr...
Broxbourne’s ’Celebrating our Community’ Festival
Friday, August 27, 2010
Cedars Park, Waltham Cross   Sunday 12th September 2010, 12pm-5pm   The Borough of Broxbourne Council are organis...
HTDC Workforce Development Update
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Autumn 2010 Training Programme The HTDC Training Programme for staff, volunteers and trustees working in the voluntary sector is now published on our w...
“Cultures Count on Migrants”.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Stevenage World Forum, Stevenage Polish Association, Hertfordshire Constabulary, MENTER (East of England Ethnic Minority Network), Stevenage Borough Council are organizing &n...
CSF Funded Training
Friday, August 20, 2010
Training Opportunities available for Volunteers, Workers and Managers to Increase their Skills, Knowledge and Confidence to work with Children and Young People in Hertfordshi...
Herts Young Homeless Group Crashpad
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Urgently required Crashpad hosts The scheme gives young people and their families some breathing space.   Crashpad is a schem...
GO EAST Abolished
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
The formal announcement on the abolition of the remaining 8 Government Offices including the Government Office for the East of England was made by Eric Pickles MP on 26 th J...
Tesco Volunteers Looking for Projects
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Get CSR Connected CIC, is a social enterprise based in Herts who specifically support local employers to do group volunteering in the area.  They have regular teams from T...
Collaboration encouraged
Monday, August 02, 2010
Public service commissioners welcome collaboration and merger between civil society support providers Research published  by Capacitybuilders shows the ma...
VCS ideas on how to do more for less
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, and Minister for Civil Society, Nick Hurd, have written an open letter to the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors a...
Hertfordshire Training and Develoment Consortium
Friday, July 23, 2010
Please see below information about a success story featuring Hertfordshire Training and Develoment Consortium’s (HTDC) first community training project. Click on this li...
Public Health in the East of England
Friday, July 23, 2010
Click to download  the first edition of a new regular short briefing on public health issues, “Public Health in the East”.     It is being dis...
IT Can Help volunteers needed in Hertfordshire
Friday, July 23, 2010
IT Can Help is a network of volunteers who offer free local computer assistance to disabled people. We diagnose and fix most computer related problems; Install and set up hardw...
Winter Fuel Payments – have your say!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Papworth Trust invites you to have your say about Winter Fuel Payments.   Winter Fuel Payments are currently paid to anyone over the age of 60 ...
Health Profiles
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Please find below the link for the New Health Profiles 2010 for Hertfordshire and its 10 county districts:-   http://www.apho.org.u...
Rooms to Hire in Welwyn Garden City
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Viewpoint have  training and board rooms to hire in the day time at their offices in WGC. For more information contact:   Tracy Kinsella ...
Herts CVS Information Bulletin July 2010
Friday, July 09, 2010
Click here for the Herts CVS monthly update providing key information about developments concerning the Third Sector     &nbs...
HSCB Website
Monday, July 05, 2010
The Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Board is pleased to announce that its new user friendly website is now live . As well as the revised HSCB Chi...
Government Cuts Update
Friday, July 02, 2010
    ·          Headlines of the Emergency Budget are available on the HM Trea...
Vetting and Barring
Friday, July 02, 2010
·          The government has put the Vetting and Barring Scheme on hold and a new system will be put in place. T...
New Chairperson - Hertfordshire Children’s Fund
Thursday, July 01, 2010
The  Committee is looking for a new Chair person. Click here for details :   Hertfordshire Children’s Fund is looking for a new am...
The Big Lunch
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
TAKE PART IN THE BIG LUNCH 2010 & GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOURS   The Big Lunch is calling on all neighbourhoods and communities...
Social Media Training
Monday, June 28, 2010
Looks at the rise of WEB2.0/Social Media/New Media technologies and applications and how these can be used to assist the VCS in its work particularly in campaigning and raisi...
Two New Volunteer Management Initiatives
Friday, June 25, 2010
New Support Resource for People Managing Volunteers   Volunteering England’s new Volunteer Management Portal, launched this today , ...
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