Workshops
Pub is the Hub
"Rural communities, and this country's rural way of life, face unprecedented challenges ... the country pub, which has been at the heart of village life for centuries, is disappearing in many areas. Providing services from the pub, such as a post office or a shop, keeps an essential service in the village." HRH The Prince of Wales.
Pub is the Hub encourages rural pub owners, licensees, and their local communities to work together to support, retain and locate local services where possible within the pub whilst often improving the viability of the business itself. Pub is the Hub assists with guidance on the availability of local and regional project funding, and having a thorough understanding of the pub business, is able to advise on the best way to progress with each individual project.
John Pepin – Sharing Without Merging – Helpful or a Waste of Time?
Effective collaboration saves money, enhances quality, leads to increases in the number of clients served, and supports successful participation in the government’s privatisation processes or working with funders; or it can waste resources. Doing it only when it adds value makes sense and in order to do this a business-like approach should be taken to assess value and impact. Approaches to sharing without merging will be explored along with an outline of a due diligence process. Participants will be given the opportunity to share successes and to explore failures, and how to manage risk; generating ideas for your organisation and its key stakeholders.
Procurement -
From Grants to Contracts – An object obscured by veils!
Each of the veils is transparent but when laid one on top of one another, then the object can become obscured.
CAVS and Carmarthenshire County Council have worked with both small and large third sector organisations over the past year in an attempt to expose what a successful and sustainable bid for work looks like.
Come along to our workshop with procurement experts from across the region and all will be revealed!
BIG – Current Funding Programme Presentation
The Big Lottery Fund is responsible for distributing half the money raised by the National Lottery for good causes. To date we have invested over £600 million in project as diverse as small social community project to Wales wide Mental Health schemes. Our mission is to bring real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need. Our work shop will provide information about our current open programmes and future programmes and how to go about applying.
Collaborative Communities
'Collaborative Communities from Asking to Earning'
Towards Financial Sustainability; making the transition from grant dependency to trading.
This practical workshop is aimed at third sector organisations. It will provide an opportunity to
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Highlight issues involved in starting to trade, such as balancing social purpose and business purpose, planning business viability, capacity to trade, reviewing systems and organisational culture
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How to assess your ideas for trading as a social enterprise.
Delivered by the Collaborative Communities Project officers, the workshop offers an opportunity to make links and find out about support available.
'Collaborative Communities Social Investment'
Making the most of social investment
This interactive workshop will provide an overview of alternative sources of securing investment for socially beneficial activities and explore what organisations need to consider and how they should prepare before applying for loan finance. The workshop will be delivered by the Collaborative Communities development officers.
Business and the Third Sector
The workshop will focus on the developing of partnerships with the private sector, drawing on the developing of partnerships with the private sector, drawing on the experience of Giving Sir Gar and voluntary sector – business partnerships from across the UK.
Giving Sir Gar was set up by CAVS through Welsh Assembly Government’s Corporate Challenge and has focused on the development of partnerships with local business in Carmarthenshire including payroll giving and a skills exchange project. Giving Sir Gar has established a small grants programme for local charities based on the income received.
Delegates will also be provided with other examples of successful practice of business engagement. The workshop will be chaired by Peter Davies, Sustainable Development Commissioner for Wales.
