What is infrastructure support?

Infrastructure support services to frontline organisations

Consortium members provide support for voluntary and community groups to develop across the following areas:

• Small groups development, pre-start up, start up, governance, constitutions, business planning

• Organisational development, performance improvement, governance, leadership, business planning, diversity, marketing, health and safety, management, financial management, crisis support

• Access to facilities, meeting rooms, offices etc

• Income generation, funding, small grants, procurement and enterprise

• Volunteering, recruitment, management and retention

• Human resources, how to recruit and manage staff and comply with legislation, including equal opportunities

• Technical support in specialist areas, sub-sectoral infrastructure

• ICT, strategies for deploying ICT, access to low cost support, equipment and software

• Workforce development, developing the organisational and professional skills of the workforce, paid and voluntary

• Partnership building and brokerage for policy making, planning and service delivery

• Policy and research collecting and providing evidence

• Advocacy and representation, providing a representative and accountable voice for frontline organisations to policy makers, service planners and funders

• For further information and support, contact the relevant infrastructure support service