Community Group Resources
Welcome to the Greening Campaign’s resources page. The documents and links below are intended to support Greening Communities while you are involved in the programme.
They have either been provided by the Greening Campaign, shared with us with permission from Greening groups, partners and organisations we have worked with, or are from recommended websites.
Forming an organisation | Setting up an organisation | Health & safety | Running an event | Inclusion & diversity | Support for volunteers | Pillars | Useful videos | Other helpful resources
Forming an organisation
- Legal structures for community groups and not-for-profit organisations | Resource Centre
- Action Hampshire: have provided training and support to GC groups in relation to governance, legal structures and identifying funding. For more information about Action Hampshire’s training offer and support available to their members please use this link.
Setting up an organisation
- Setting up a social enterprise – GOV.UK
- Getting volunteer insurance | NCVO
- Setting up a voluntary or community group
- Making Sure Everyone Can Access Your Group or Project | The Nextdoor Nature Hub
- Social media and marketing – we arranged a free online social media clinic for Greening communities with Delivered Social, a digital marketing agency with offices in Portsmouth and Guildford. Click here for the useful presentation from that session (PDF)
Health & safety
- Health and safety for community groups | Resource Centre
- GC H&S policy (PDF)
- GC safeguarding policy, adults (PDF)
- GC safeguarding policy, child (PDF)
- Risk Assessments | The Nextdoor Nature Hub
- Risk assessment | Resource Centre advice and templates to use
- Risk assessment for Bishopstoke toy library (PDF)
- Privacy policy Bishopstoke toy library (PDF)
- Data retention policy Bishopstoke toy library (PDF)
- Data Protection for community groups – Resource Centre advice and templates for use
Inclusion and diversity
- Equality and diversity policies for small groups | Resource Centre
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policies – THRE info and how to guides
- Please contact us if you would like a copy of the Greening Campaign’s Diversity policy.
Pillars
If you have any questions that are specific to any of the 5 Pillars, please contact the GC Pillar Expert, who will be able to advise you further or provide additional information.
We hope you find this information useful. If there are any other subjects not covered here that you would like to find out more about, please contact hello@greening-campaign.org
Useful Videos
Other helpful resources:
- The Government website has more information on the legal details of setting up a community group: Legal forms for business: a guide – GOV.UK
- The Resource Centre is a charity serving voluntary and community groups in the Brighton and Hove area. They are used by hundreds of local groups every year, from playgroups to environmental campaigns, residents associations to arts organisations. They have a wealth of information resources relating to community groups: Resource Centre | A really useful place for community groups
- GC Environmental policy (PDF)
Disclaimer
The information provided on this website is for general informational purposes only and should not be construed as legal advice. Any information listed is up to date at the time of posting and while we try to ensure that amendments to any content are made where possible, please be advised that legislation or guidance may change.
This page contains links to external websites and resources, please be advised that we are not responsible for any content posted on the sites you link to.
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