Leadership and Management

Leadership & Management – An Overview

BVSC’s Engage for Funding webinar provides wide-ranging support on Leadership & Management, supporting your organisation’s business development. Sign up here For further information on Engage for Funding Network contact please BVSC’s consultant Tony Carr, 4FrontPartners who facilitates these webinars.
BVSC’s Accelerator Programme provides organisations with further indepth support on business development.
BVSC’s News and Events pages also regularly promote leadership and management training opportunities.

Our Support Partners also provide further general Leadership & Management support and advice including:

BVSC’s Children, Young People & Families Team meets regularly with strategic leads of Early Help VCFSE Providers to provide leadership and management support
iSE (Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs) Business Consultancy provides Trustee/ Director Coaching and Mentoring for Social Enterprises.
WMCA (West Midlands Combined Authority) network provides CMI and LMI Leadership & Management Training Courses.
NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) provides a Leadership & Organisational Development Consultancy.
NAVCA (National Association for Voluntary and Community Action) provides a New CEOs Network for CEOs of infrastructure organisations.

Thought Leadership

BVSC and many VCFSE organisations, and the programmes and projects they deliver, are led by experts in economic, social and environmental issues, who can provide your organisation with key insights on these issues, on the communities they impact and can support solution focussed outcomes.

Our BVSC Research Team can also provide your organisation with insight, intelligence and data on the VCFSE sector, community issues and impact.

If you are interested in arranging a conversation, presentation or speaker for a meeting or event, or would like representation from a VCFSE organisation on a particular topic or community, but don’t know who to approach, BVSC can signpost you to VCFSE organisations, and expert leaders, who may be able to help.

Please contact BVSC’s Strategic Partnership Manager, Elizabeth Goodchild to discuss: [email protected].

Ethics and Values

NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) provides information on Charity ethical principles.

Strategic Planning

BVSC Engage for Funding Webinar (09/12/24) on Planning for Success in 2025
BVSC Engage for Funding Webinar (18/12/23) on Planning Your 2024 Growth
iSE (Initiative for Social Enterpreneurs) Business Consultancy includes Action Planning and identifying development opportunities
Locality Business Plan Template and Guidance for community organisations
NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) Strategy and Business Planning webpages

Policies and Processes

Finance
HR Support
Volunteering
Early Help provides some support for organisations working with children, young people and families on developing policies and processes.
Neighbourhood Network Schemes (NNS) and in partnership with Birmingham Community Matters (BCM) provide some training on policies and processses for organisations working with older adults and adults with disabilities
NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) also provides information on Creating Policies & Procedures

Performance Management

BVSC Engage for Funding webinars 15/04/2024 and 11/11/24 provide some information towards Performance Management
BVSC supports the Performance Management of Early Help VCFSE providers.
Neighbourhood Network Schemes (NNS) provide wide-ranging support and training on Performance Management topics for organisations working with older adults and adults with disabilities
iSE (Initiative for Social Enterpreneurs) Business Consultancy includes Social Impact Measurement Advice
Thrive Together Birmingham’s Near Neighbours Partnership with the Church Urban Fund includes Impact and Evaluation Toolkit and Smart Target Guidance
NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) Impact and Evaluation webpages

Change Management

NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) Managing Change webpages .

Risk Management

NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) How to Manage Risk webpages

Crisis Management

BVSC Cost of Living webpages
BVSC Birmingham City Council Section 114 webpages
NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) Responding to Crises webpages
NAVCA (National Association for Voluntary and Community Action) Emergency Planning and Response webpages and VCS Emergencies Partnership (VCSEP)

Complaint and Dispute Management

NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) Assessing complaints and concerns webpages

Programme and Project Management

Thrive Together Birmingham’s Near Neighbours Partnership with Church Urban Fund includes ‘Project Planning from Start to Finish’ webinar
NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) provides Project Management training.

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At BVSC we strive to provide our customers with the best service possible. We know that some of the best ideas come from people outside of our organisation and we therefore welcome feedback at every level to help us continuously improve what we do. This means that we want to hear from you when things go well, and when things could have gone better.
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