3. How To Guides

How To? Develop Policy

Employing people starts with the recognition that you need an employee and ends when the employee leaves your organisation. Find information here on everything from recruiting, hiring, and orienting to training, policies, salary and benefits, performance management and improvement, and organisation communication and culture.

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The following two links will take you through identifying the need for a policy and then developing that policy.

• Identify The Need For A  Policy
http://humanresources.about.com/od/policiesandsamples1/a/how_to_policy.htm

• Write and Implement The Policy
http://humanresources.about.com/od/policiesandsamples1/a/how_to_policy_2.htm

How To? Write Bids

Fundraising is a competitive business.  Funders receive far more requests than they can fund. So you need your request to be appropriate and as articulate and succinct as possible.
This Section gives you an overview and an outline of all the elements that need to go into writing effective funding applications / proposals. 

• Writing Bids
http://101tips.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/section_1_how_to_write_effective_applications.doc

• Apply For Lottery Funding
Lottery Funding is a joint website run by all Lottery funders in the UK. This site allows you to search information on current funding programmes across the UK.
http://www.lotteryfunding.org.uk/

How To? Complete a recruitment process

When you take on new staff, identifying your requirements and planning how to fill your vacancy are important for ensuring you get the best person for the job.
This guide takes you through what you have to think about before and during the recruitment process, starting with deciding what you need and where you are going to recruit through to the interview and offer letter.

• Recruitment process
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?type=RESOURCES&itemId=1073793806

How To? Write an employment contract

An employment contract is a legally binding agreement between an employer and employee made when an employee agrees to work for an employer in return for pay.
This link will take you through all the necessary information you need.

• Write a contract of employment
http://www.voluntaryworks.org.uk/cvsmidandnorthbeds/documents/HowToCreateAContractOfEmployment.pdf

How To? Support volunteers in your organisation

Volunteering England works to support and increase the quality, quantity, impact and accessibility of volunteering throughout England.
Volunteering England offers an array of services designed to help and support everyone who works with volunteers. Whether you're a volunteer manager, running a volunteer centre, working with a volunteer-involving organisation or involved with volunteers in any capacity.

• Develop volunteer agreements
http://www.volunteering.org.uk/resources/goodpracticebank/Core+Themes/volunteerpolicies/volunteeragreements.htm

 


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