Starting a New Group – All you need to know

You could be a group who wants to deliver arts or recreational activities, do environmental work, improve your community, support people who have limited resources, provide peer support to families or improving people’s mental health etc. Please note that this workshop is not intended for people who want to incorporate as a community interest company or to register as a charity. The workshop will help you to clarify what you want to do, how and who for and help you to set some rules about how you want to run your group.

We will cover:

• Clarifying what you want to do, who will benefit and how
• Advantages of formalising your group
• Drafting a constitution outlining your purposes and how you will operate in a democratic and accountable way
• The key tasks you will need to do to become a small established group and be ready to access funding e.g. draft and understand your constitution, know how to run your group well sharing responsibilities, getting people involved, how to get a bank account, know what policies you will need and where to get help and support.
• Develop an action plan.

This course is free to small and emerging not-for-profit voluntary/community/faith groups supporting communities in Leeds (as it is subsidised by Leeds City Council and would usually cost £70.00). If you would like to attend but don’t fit this criteria you will need to pay the full fee.