VCSE Alliance
VCSE Alliance membership
Our Voluntary, Community, Social Enterprise (VCSE) Alliance is how we connect with, support, and link together third sector organisations in the city. Membership is FREE and open to all voluntary, community organisations or social enterprises based (or active) in Coventry.
We welcome all voluntary sector organisations and groups based in or offering services for the good of Coventry and the people who live here.
We call this collective the VCSE Alliance.
How to join the VCSE Alliance
We encourage a culture of sharing, partnership and working together, as laid out in our Manifesto.
If your organisation values this too, join us and create a profile!
Head over to Get Involved Coventry, sign up now by creating your profile – it’s free to join
Eligibility
Our Voluntary, Community, Social Enterprise (VCSE) Alliance is how we connect with, support, and link together third sector organisations in the city. Membership is FREE and open to all voluntary, community organisations or social enterprises based (or active) in Coventry.
Subject to the restrictions below, VCSE membership is open to:
- social enterprises
- independent employee/member/retired persons social associations
- sports and leisure clubs and societies
- parent / teacher associations and out of school clubs
- independent ‘Friends Of’ associations or similar
- volunteering associations supporting public sector organisations such as hospitals, provided that such associations have full financial and decision-making independence from the public sector organisations they support
- Saturday / supplementary schools
- faith organisations
VCSE Membership is not open to:
- Private sector organisations
- Any organisation able to distribute profits to individual or corporate members or owners
- Public sector organisations including executive agencies and quangos
- Political parties, trade unions and party political organisations
- Organisations or projects owned or controlled by public or private sector organisations (e.g. local authority controlled companies)
- Subsidiary organisations of an existing VAC member (e.g. trading subsidiaries)
- Any organisation with objectives which contravene VAC’s Equality & Diversity policy or which are, in the reasonable opinion of the VAC Board, inconsistent with the values of VAC.
Benefits of VCSE Alliance Membership
Being part of our VCSE Alliance is a great way to network, gain support, stay informed, promote your organisation, services and volunteer opportunities and feel connected to the sector.
VAC offer several support services included in VCSE Alliance membership. You can explore all of them here.
Benefits of VCSE Alliance Membership
Being part of our VCSE Alliance is a great way to network, gain support, stay informed, promote your organisation, services and volunteer opportunities and feel connected to the sector.
VAC offer several support services included in VCSE Alliance membership. You can explore all of them here.
- 360Giving https://www.threesixtygiving.org/2021/03/30/best-resources-for-fundraisers-to-search-funders/
- ACEVO https://www.acevo.org.uk/resources/
- Association of Chairs https://www.associationofchairs.org.uk/
- Charity Comms https://www.charitycomms.org.uk/
- Charity Digital https://charitydigital.org.uk/home
- Charity Evaluation Working Group https://www.chewgroup.org.uk/
- Charity Excellence Framework https://www.charityexcellence.co.uk
- Charity Finance Group https://cfg.org.uk/topics
- CharityConnect https://www.charityconnect.co.uk/
- Cranfield Trust https://www.cranfieldtrust.org/pages/pro-bono-charity-support
- DataKind UK https://datakind.org.uk/
- Digital Candle https://www.digitalcandle.org.uk/
- Directory of Social Change https://www.dsc.org.uk/
- Embrace Finance https://www.embracefinance.org.uk/
- Fair Development https://www.fairdevelopment.co.uk/
- Fundraiser Sarah www.fundraisersarah.com
- Fundraising Chat (Facebook Group) https://www.facebook.com/groups/FundraisingChat/
- FundraisingEverywhere https://www.fundraisingeverywhere.com/
- Funds Online https://fundsonline.org.uk
- Getting on Board https://www.gettingonboard.org/
- Globalgiving https://www.globalgiving.org/learn/
- Grant Finder https://www.grantfinder.co.uk/funding-central/
- Impactasaurus https://impactasaurus.org/
- Inspiring Impact https://inspiringimpact.org/ (NPC now hosts the Resource Hub)
- INTRAC https://www.intrac.org/
- LawWorks https://www.lawworks.org.uk/
- Legacy Fundraising Chat https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/legacy-fundraising-chat/id1619631189
- Lloyds Bank Foundation https://www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk
- Localgiving https://localgiving.org/
- Media Trust https://mediatrust.org/
- NAVCA https://navca.org.uk/
- NCVO https://www.ncvo.org.uk/help-and-guidance/#/
- NCVO Small Charity Helpdesk https://www.ncvo.org.uk/about-us/our-services/support-small-charities-voluntary-organisations/small-charity-helpdesk/#/
- NPC Resource Hub https://www.thinknpc.org/resource-hub/
- Persuasion (legacies consultancy) https://persuasion.org.uk/
- Pilotlight https://www.pilotlight.org.uk/join/charity
- Populo HR https://populo.org.uk/
- Pro Bono Economics https://www.probonoeconomics.com/
- Reach Volunteering www.reachvolunteering.org.uk
- SCVO https://scvo.scot/
- Shehnaaz Latif (impact consultancy) https://www.shehnaazlatif.co.uk/
- Small Charities Data Hub https://smallcharitiesdata.org/
- Small Charity Friendly Collective https://www.limegreenconsulting.co.uk/small-charity-friendly-collective.html
- Small Charity Setup Tool https://smallcharities.wpengine.com/
- Small Charity Support https://www.smallcharitysupport.uk/
- Small Charity Week https://www.smallcharityweek.com
- Small Charity Week Crowdsourced List of Sources of Support https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xVYfzWiCfshW3DtTry0HFbDKvTNTbfNpEfqlJGPue2s/edit#gid=1763752809
- Small International Development Charities Network (Facebook Group) https://www.facebook.com/groups/sidcn/
- Social Value UK https://socialvalueuk.org/resource-library/
- Superhighways https://superhighways.org.uk
- Time to Spare https://timetospare.com/
- UK Fundraising https://fundraising.co.uk/
- Volunteering Matters https://volunteeringmatters.org.uk/
- WCVA https://wcva.cymru/
- Welbeck Accountancy https://welbeckaccountancy.co.uk/
