Membership
Help us develop a thriving and influential voluntary sector by becoming a member of Community First. Membership is free and offers a range of services.
Membership services
Being a part of Community First offers your group the following:
- Setting up new organizations to address new challenges and opportunities
- Help with day to day management of new and existing enterprises
- Delivery of a wide range of training programmes plus delivery of custom made training to fit individual organization’s needs
- Finding Trustees and well qualified, experienced and dedicated volunteers
- Developing Sustainable Funding Strategies
- Providing accounting advice and provision of payroll services
- Providing advice on and dealing with employment issues
- Providing Disclosure and Barring services
- Providing Forums for networking and ideas sharing
- Providing funder events
- Acting as the voice of the voluntary sector with statutory bodies.
In 2016, we directly supported 363 of our member groups:
- Helping to set up 5 new voluntary organizations and supporting substantial change in a further 15
- Registering interest from around 900 potential volunteers, placing over 400
- Helping to raise over £800,000 of new funding
- Carrying out over 100 DBS checks
- Managing 6 forums on topics of importance to our members
- Delivering over 10 funding events
- Establishing partnerships with over 30 local businesses