Setting up a warm welcome space in your community and what to think about?

This project evaluation and assessment workshop was designed to encourage better quality participation for people who have been involved in – or affected by – a project’s actions, and to reflect on its impact.

Created originally by Church Urban Fund and Allchurches Trust (now the Benefact Trust).

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This toolkit aims to help you to reach out and engage with people of different faiths in your local area, to create a successful project that engages people of different religious backgrounds, as well as to develop and deepen cross-faith understanding and relationships along the way.

A good practice guide for faith projects involved in Volunteering, and for Volunteer Centres and Councils for Voluntary Service who work with them.

This toolkit is aimed at helping places of worship and faith-based community organisations to be better informed of what they might do to provide the very best care for children and young people.

This Toolkit will help you construct a basic budget, setting out your plans in an understandable and appropriate financial description of activity.

Whatever your project activity, the people who run, manage and fund it will need clarity on what you are trying to achieve. This is particularly crucial for the beneficiaries of the project, as without a clear vision of your work you may be unable to deliver what they need...in this Toolkit you don’t have to possess existing skills to become a visionary person. The tools are simple and easy to use by people of all backgrounds and will help explore, revisit and develop your Project’s Vision.

To help explain, encourage and direct a faith based activity, a plan of some sort will normally be needed and this toolkit offers ideas and examples of how planning activity might be used by faith communities to help them ‘know where they are going’ with a project.

Faith organisations, be they places of worship or faith based charities, aiming to meet the needs of communities will often need to seek funding from sources other than their immediate membership. To stay true to their faith teachings and meet good standards as set out in law, carefully planned steps will be required to help reach the funding required.

This toolkit is designed to help you understand what a funder is looking for in your application and reveals the hidden things that they won’t necessarily ask for but will want to see.

Faith groups that have learnt how to tell their story well will have a competitive edge in the increasingly crowded world of fundraising, and are more likely to be representative of the views and aspirations of the people they serve.

This Toolkit is based on the experiences of a wide range of groups that have successfully used research and monitoring to advance their work with neighbourhoods. You won’t always find research and monitoring requirements listed in the guidelines given to you by a funder, but they will in fact be keen to see the evidence of these aspects of your work as indicators of a well-run project.

This toolkit will help you consider three important questions in promoting your project; ‘What is my Message?’, ‘Who are my Audience?’ and ‘What is the Best and Most Cost Effective Way to reach your Audience?’ The toolkit will help you reach the people your project is most designed to impact.

Community projects, and particularly interfaith projects, are involved in activities and events that, from time to time, will interest local newspapers, radio, and sometimes regional TV. With limited resources, the skill is to know when to put energy into promoting your project. This toolkit provides guidelines for effective media coverage to help you to maximise the benefit of publicity.

The Near Neighbours grants criteria and guidance for 2017. The grants programme which is part of Near Neighbours is being administered by our partner organisation, Church Urban Fund. Near Neighbours is funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government. We will work with those of any faith or none.

This toolkit will help you set up and manage social media accounts for your organisation. It covers Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.