Useful organisations
Mentoring and Befriending Foundation
The Mentoring and Befriending Foundation offers support and services and promotes standards around mentoring and befriending. One of their aims is to provide a quality experience for the volunteer and a successful outcome for mentees and befriendees.
Pilotlight helps small, ambitious charities and social enterprises to grow, develop and be more sustainable. They match and manage teams of senior business people, ‘Pilotlighters’, with local charities and social enterprises.
bassac is a membership body for community organisations. They organise training and events, highlight funding opportunities, and offer tailored support to every member. They support members to drive social change by raising their local issues regionally and nationally.
Reach helps voluntary organisations fulfill their potential by finding volunteers with the right management, professional, technical or business expertise. In turn, skilled volunteers use their experience to make a difference to their community.
The Cranfield Trust is a nationally respected charity matching highly skilled managers from the commercial sector to act as Trust volunteers to charities and social enterprise groups involved in issues of poverty, disability or social exclusion.
Supporting the voluntary and community sports sector. Sported is a one stop shop, providing funding and organisational development support to groups that use sport to improve the lives of young people in disadvantaged communities.
Worshipful Company of Management Consultants (WCoMC)
The Worshipful Company of Management Consultants is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. Their members offer pro bono consultancy for charities, supporting them to develop their organisations and executives.
ngo.media is the leading editorial, copywriting, publications and training agency working only with charities, socially driven organisations and ethical businesses. NGO Media consists of a team of experienced journalists, dedicated to making your life easier. They are passionate about the power of great communications to enable organisations to make a positive difference to people, communities and the environment.