Infrastructure

Cumbria Youth Alliance Infrastructure Support for the sector, includes: Free training for staff and volunteers including over 80 online modules, free Outcomes and Impact measurement tools and training in how to use them and follow up support, fundraising support eg. workshops tailored to your needs and research into which funders will fund your project; how to write better bids; proof reading your bids; acting as a referee. It also includes a subscription to the monthly funding gazette with news from local and national funders, governance health check your policies and procedures and help or advice on how to review and improve them, free access to a national quality kite mark, SQP, for which CYA is the Cumbria franchise holder, weekly and monthly newsletters which all groups can contribute to. We chair the Voluntary Sector Reference Group which brings together the statutory sector stakeholders eg. local government and health agencies together with local and national funders; you can attend virtual meetings or just have the minutes sent for each meeting. We can also help in recruiting volunteers; we have a database of people who have registered as wanting to volunteer and we put them in touch with groups needing volunteers. These activities are all free as funded by Cumbria County Council · For more information contact juan@cya.org.uk.