Publications

Charity Commission publications
www.charitycommission.gov.uk
Including: CC20 – Charities and Fundraising; CC35 – Trustees, trading and tax; CC37 – Charities and contract ; RS2 – Charities and Commercial Partners

Effective fundraising: An informal guide to getting grants and donations
One of a massive range of printed material available from the Directory of Social Change (DSC). Other DSC publications include Capital Campaigns and Major Donor Fundraising. Tel: 08450 777707 Email: publications@dsc.org.uk www.dsc.org.uk/publications

Finance hub publications
The Finance Hub has been replaced by the National Support Service but a range of publications and resources, including an introductory pack on funding advice and finance, available via the Finance Hub website: www.financehub.org.uk

Funding and Procurement: a Code of Good Practice
The Code seeks to improve funding and procurement relationships, to benefit both funder and funded, and to safeguard the third sector’s independence in England. www.thecompact.org.uk (follow the link for Publications).

The fundraiser’s guide to the law
Bates, Wells and Braithwaite & Centre for Voluntary Sector Development, DSC/CAF
Directory of Social Change Books Tel: 0845 777707 Email: publications@dsc.org.uk www.dsc.org.uk/publications

NCVO’s Sustainable Funding Project
Produces a range of publications including: Introduction to Sustainable Funding- understanding your options. www.ncvo-sfp.org.uk

Why grants are important for a healthy local VCS
This NAVCA report explores the grant funding relationship between local government in England and the local voluntary and community sector as part of the local funding mix.
www.navca.org.uk/publications/whygrants

Sustaining grants
NAVCA leaflet explaining why local grant aid is vital for a healthy voluntary and community sector and thriving local communities.
www.navca.org.uk/publications/sustaininggrants

Grant-making Trusts
Information from Directory of Social Change about more than 4,200 UK grant-making trusts who, between them, give over £3.1 billion a year. Available as print publications (A Guide to the Major Trusts Volumes 1 and 2, regional guides to local trusts and the Directory of Grant Making Trusts), CDRom or regularly updated website www.trustfunding.org.uk
Directory of Social Change Books Tel: 0845 777707 Email: publications@dsc.org.uk www.dsc.org.uk/publications

Guide to UK Company Giving
Directory of Social Change guide giving details of over 500 companies, giving a combined total of £290 million in cash donations to voluntary and community organisations. Available as a print publication, CDRom or regularly updated website www.companygiving.org.uk
Directory of Social Change Books Tel: 0845 777707 Email: publications@dsc.org.uk www.dsc.org.uk/publications

Institute of Fundraising Codes of Practice
The Codes of Fundraising Practice represent the standards set for fundraisers in the UK. Each code covers a separate fundraising technique and provides information on areas of the law, guidance on the techniques themselves and the best practice that the fundraising sector has set itself to ensure the highest standards. www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/bestpractice/thecodes

Profunding
A good source of web-based funding news. Site users can access all the latest news from each funder. There are sections for each of the major fund sources (grants from trusts, companies and government, the Lottery and Europe, as well as information about attracting money from individual donors). Subscription costs from £352.50 per annum. See www.fundinginformation.org

SMALLfri
This is a subscription services from Profunding that is designed to assist newly formed organisations, projects or groups with an annual turnover below £50,000. Price £117.50 including VAT for a 12-month subscription. www.fundinginformation.org.uk/SmallFriHome.html

Social enterprise resource list
Published annually by NAVCA at www.navca.org.uk/publications/circulation/2007/399 (for NAVCA members and affiliates only).

Society Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk/society

SYFAB information sheets
South Yorkshire Funding Advice Bureau (SYFAB) has several information sheets including Developing a fundraising strategy, Organising your fundraising information and Budgets for Small Groups and Projects.
www.syfab.org.uk

The Voluntary Sector Legal Handbook
Sandy Adirondack and James Sinclair Taylor
Directory of Social Change Books Tel: 0845 777707 Email: publications@dsc.org.uk www.dsc.org.uk/publications