8. Glossary

Glossary

•    Charities Commission
The Charity Commission registers and regulates charities in England and Wales.

•    CIPD
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is Europe's largest HR and development professional body supporting and developing those responsible for the management and development of people within organisations.

•    contract
In law, a contract is a binding legal agreement that is enforceable in a court of law or by binding arbitration. That is to say, a contract is an exchange of promises with a specific remedy for breach.

•    employee
A person who is paid for the performance of his or her duties by his or her employer and can include an officer, partner and sole-proprietor.

•    employer
A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.

•    fundraising
Fundraising or fund raising (also development or advancement) is the process of soliciting and gathering contributions as money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies.

•    governance
Governance is the activity of governing. It relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. It consists either of a separate process or of a specific part of management or leadership processes.

•    induction
An induction is simply the process used by employers to help you integrate into your new role and the company as a whole. It's a way of processing some necessary details, introducing you to your new surroundings, letting you know more about the business and making sure you will be safe in the workplace.

•    legislation
Legislation (or "statutory law") is law which has been promulgated (or "enacted") by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it. (Another source of law is judge-made law or case law.) Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill, and may be broadly referred to as "legislation" while it remains under consideration to distinguish it from other business. Legislation can have many purposes: to regulate, to authorize, to proscribe, to provide (funds), to sanction, to grant, to declare or to restrict.

•    policies and procedures
Policies and procedures are a set of documents that describe an organisation's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfil the policies.

•    recruitment
Recruitment refers to the process of attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a job at an organisation or firm.

•    risk assessment
The overall process of identifying all the risks to and from an activity and assessing the potential impact of each risk.

•    safeguarding
What ‘safeguarding’ means:
The government guidance on ‘Working Together to Safeguard Children – 2010’ defines safeguarding children and promoting their welfare as:

•    Protecting children from maltreatment
•    Preventing impairment of children’s health or development
•    Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
•    Enabling those children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully  
•    CAF - common assessment framework
The CAF is a key part of delivering frontline services that are integrated, and are focused around the needs of children and young people. The CAF is a standardised approach to conducting assessments of children's additional needs and deciding how these should be met. It can be used by practitioners across children's services in England.

•    statutory
A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a state, city, or county. Typically, statutes command or prohibit something, or declare policy.

•    strategy
"Strategy is the direction and scope of an organisation over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organisation through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations".

In other words, strategy is about:
* Where is the business trying to get to in the long-term (direction)
* Which markets should a business compete in and what kind of activities are involved in such markets? (markets; scope)
* How can the business perform better than the competition in those markets? (advantage)?
* What resources (skills, assets, finance, relationships, technical competence, facilities) are required in order to be able to compete? (resources)?
* What external, environmental factors affect the businesses' ability to compete? (environment)?
* What are the values and expectations of those who have power in and around the business? (stakeholders)

•    trustee's
Trustee is a legal term for a holder of property on behalf of a beneficiary. A trust can be set up either to benefit particular persons, or for any charitable purposes (but not generally for non-charitable purposes): typical examples are a will trust for the testator's children and family, a pension trust (to confer benefits on employees and their families), and a charitable trust. In all cases, the trustee may be a person or company, whether or not they are a prospective beneficiary.

•    V.C.F.S - Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector, also sometimes known as the 3rd Sector.
The third sector is constituted by all those organisations that are not-for-profit and non-government, together with the activities of volunteering and giving which sustain them. These organisations are a major component of many industries including community health services, rural, education, housing, sport and recreation, culture and finance.

While they differ between themselves, third sector organisations differ as a group from for-profit businesses and from government departments and authorities.

Third sector organisations vary greatly in size and in their activities. They include neighbourhood associations, sporting clubs, recreation societies, community associations, chambers of commerce, churches, religious orders, credit unions, political parties, trade unions, trade and professional associations, private schools, charitable trusts and foundations, some hospitals, welfare organisations and even some large insurance companies.

Toolkit Index

1.    Introduction
2.    Developing your Organisation
       a.    Organisation 
       b.    Employees  
       c.    Moving Forward
3.    How to? Guides
4.    Safeguarding
5.    Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
6.    Personal and Professional Development
       a.    Training within the Voluntary Sector
       b.    Training within the Local Authority
       c.    Links to Local Education Establishments
7.    Job Profiles
8.    Glossary