• What we offer:

Community Accountancy: Financial Assistance and advice for budgeting, cash-flow, financial funding applications, setting up financial procedures and maintaining financial records.

Information Support Service: How to develop systems to manage information within your organisation. How to access available information resources including library computer facilities. Assist groups to locate and access information relevant to their needs and situations.

IT Consultancy and Advocacy Project: We can help you understand the jargon, health check your computer equipment and make recommendations about your use, training and IT needs. Support you to make use of Charity discounts and signpost IT suppliers. Funded by Capacity Builders.

SOLVS Support Project: Support & Outreach for the Local Voluntary Sector Project will help you find the solution. Funded by the Bridge House Trust. If you have such needs or need more info, please do not hesitate to contact me us 020 8875 2844

The Community Library at 170 Garratt Lane is open Tuesdays 10am-1pm, Thursdays 2-4pm and at other times by appointment.

Additionally we can make referrals to other agencies to receive specialist legal advice in matters of concern to the non-profit voluntary sector.

To make an appointment for any of the services mentioned above, please see Contacting Us

Website Community Noticeboard

Send us information about vacancies and events, text and images and we will include them on our website Notice board at our discretion (see disclaimer on website)

• Fact Sheets

We have a comprehensive range of guidance notes for organisational development and legal advice. Please click HERE

• Registration and Membership:

Registration with WVSDA is open to all voluntary organisations.

For voluntary organisations based in the London Borough of Wandsworth, the following services are free:

Information:

• Free advice and support on volunteering and all capacity building, i.e. financial matters, fundraising, governance

• Printed copy of WVSDA newsletter (minimum of one a year) plus Email copy of WVSDA newsletter (3 a year). This newsletter gives full information on training events, fundraising ideas and current/forthcoming changes and topics that can affect voluntary and community organisations

• Downloads of Factsheets on volunteering and capacity building issues from the website

Governance:

• Lifelong membership to WVSDA enabling you to shape the support that we offer

• Voting rights at the Annual General Meeting

• Members may become Trustees of WVSDA, subject to conditions set out in WVSDA’s governance documents

Volunteering:

• Free registration for volunteer brokerage allowing free advertising of their opportunities on V-Base which is WVSDA’s comprehensive volunteering database

Training:

• Access to the full training program run by WVSDA - subject to a £15 per person booking fee, refundable on attendance of training program. (See Training Booking Form for full details)

• Access to bespoke training for your organisation by WVSDA trainer (subject to agreement by WVSDA trainer)

Additional Benefits:

• Use of WVSDA training room (subject to booking space) with use of laptop and projector at rate of £25 per hour. Room can accommodate 15 people theatre style

• Use of photocopier at rate of 4p per copy

• 25% discount on room hire for any council hired buildings including hire of library rooms/halls

For Voluntary Organisations based outside of the London Borough of Wandsworth but registering with WVSDA, the following services are available:

• Access to full training program run by WVSDA at rate of £50 per person

• Bespoke training provided by WVSDA trainer at cost of £500 per day (subject to agreement by WVSDA trainer)

• Free registration for volunteer brokerage allowing free advertising of opportunities on V-base which is WVSDA’s comprehensive volunteering database

• Email copy of WVSDA newsletter (3 a year)

• Use of WVSDA training room (subject to booking space) with use of laptop and projector at rate of £40 per hour. Room can accommodate 15 people theatre style.
  

To register with WVSDA please complete a registration form (see links below) and return it to us at:

Registration, WVSDA, 170 Garratt Lane, London SW18 4DA

CLICK HERE to download .pdf

CLICK HERE to download MS Word .doc

CLICK HERE to download OpenOffice file

For more information please contact our Information and Support Worker, Clare Chamberlain, on 020 8875 2846 or info@wvsda.org.uk

• Database of Voluntary organisations in Wandsworth;

This database is located on the Wandsworth Local Government website, please CLICK HERE

• Wandsworth Change Up plan:

How can the Wandsworth Change Up plan help small voluntary and community
groups in Wandsworth?

The Wandsworth Change Up Plan sets out a ten year vision and plan for the
provision of support services to voluntary and community groups in
Wandsworth. It also indicates how the short term needs of so called 'hard to
reach' groups can be met through the provision of outreach services to black
and minority ethnic groups. Additionally, the plan points to the
continuation of the ICT support service for small groups and developing
accreditation for training too.

Link to download Wandsworth Change Up plan

http://www.wvsda.org.uk/Downloads/ChangeUp.pdf

• Wandsworth Compact:

How can the Wandsworth Compact help you work more effectively with the
public sector?

The Wandsworth Compact outlines key principles of conduct and a number of
key undertakings between the public sector and voluntary and community
sector in Wandsworth, which has been agreed by a cross sector working group.

Link to download Wandsworth Compact plan

http://www.wvsda.org.uk/Downloads/wandsworth%20compact.pd

SOLVS Project

Funded by

Do you want help to:

Access more funds for your group?
Start a new project in your community?
Grow your organisation but not sure how to go about it?

The SOLVS Project offers:

Tailor-made sessions to boost your Management Committee’s confidence and motivation.
Facilitated sessions to help you develop your Business or Strategic Plans.
Help to apply for funding.
Outreach support over a period of time.
Tailor-made and accredited training to meet your needs

To find out more or to arrange an initial appointment call:

Cristina dos Santos on 020 8875 2844

or Nour-eddine Aboudihaj on 020 8875 2843 or see Contacts page for e-mails

IT Project

Funded by

This project aims to help the Voluntary sector in Wandsworth make the most of it's Computer technology and get value for money from IT suppliers and IT support contracts.Offering advice, IT health check, staff and volunteer training, advocacy for the development of an organisations’ IT and computer knowledge.

Working with all hardware, software and websites, and having specialist knowledge of IT accessibility options for people with disability and impairments. News about IT developments and new technology delivered via email newsletters and WVSDA website.

The worker deals with immediate needs and working towards, full cost of ownership, policies, procedures and IT strategy issues. Drawing up specifications/ contracts for developers and IT suppliers. Signposting to discounted equipment, ‘known’ suppliers and IT contractors.

Independent advice in plain language for an organisation to make the most of their IT and computers. Working to ensure the organisation’s data, is reliably kept, safe and secure.

The role is targeted at small voluntary organisations and groups. The worker is mobile and works within the premises of the organisation, this method of IT delivery is sometimes known as Circuit Riding.

The role is also know as ;- Circuit Riding.

Contact our IT development worker on Contact Us page