External Resources
External Resources
The external resource page contains useful information and links to third party websites that provide relevant resources to DPOs.
The Compact Refreshed
The Compact is the longstanding agreement that sets out shared commitments and guidelines for effective partnership working between government and the third sector in
You can download the introduction to the Compact here
You can also download the refreshed Compact here
NCVO's Focus series 1-7
This series of guides written by NCVO Third Sector Foresight, is designed to help small and medium-sized third sector organisations( including DPOs) think about likely changes in their external environment and how these trends could affect them.
Each pocket guide focuses on a different topic and provides a ready-made analysis of the future changes we will probably see in the coming years in that particular area. Inside, they pose some strategic questions to help you think through these likely future changes, and how you can prepare for them. The topics are funding, volunteers, new technologies, local democracy, social trends and population.
Future Focus 1: what will our funding be like in five years time?
Outlines the major likely changes in funding for the voluntary and community sector in the coming years and asks key questions about your own organisation's funding. You can download PDF version of Future Focus 1 here
Future Focus 2: what will our volunteers be like in five years time?
Examines how volunteers are changing - who they are, what they do and what they expect -and suggests ways to use this
You can download PDF version of Future Focus 2 here
Future Focus 3: how will we use new technologies in five years time?
Explores how developments in technology are changing the way individuals and organisations behave and the effects these technologies might have on your organisation.
You can download PDF version of Future Focus 3 here
Future Focus 4: how is your local democracy changing?
Presents the likely changes to where power will lie locally and how decisions will made in our communities.
You can download PDF version of Future Focus 4 here
Future Focus 5: how are social attitudes changing?
Helps you to understand how changing social attitudes may affect yourorganisation and to think through how to make the most of likely opportunities and challenges.
You can download PDF version of Future Focus 5 here
Future Focus 6: what will the
Provides an overview of how the
You can download PDF version of Future Focus 6 here
Future Focus 7:what will campaigning be like in five years time?
Explores how campaigning will change in the future and suggests ways to use this
You can download PDF version of Future Focus 7 here
Trustee Guide to Campaigning and Influencing
This short guide for Trustees or management committee members outlines both what is required by the law and what is good practice in the development and implementation of effective campaigns. It’s relevant whether you are involved in a large organisation looking at the strategic overview or in a small organisation and are more directly involved in the day-to-day delivery of activities.
ENIL implementation guidelines, UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
European Network of Independent Living's PowerPoint presentation on the UN's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
View the PowerPoint presentation here
Building our Future Report
The Building our Future report is a research that looks at the employment and human resource needs of deaf and disabled people's organisations in London. Although the focus was on London many of the findings in the report affect DPOs across the entire country.
Download the easy read version
How to make Information Accessible
The National Equality Partnership and CHANGE, a leading national organisation
led by Disabled People, have produced a guide to make written information
accessible
A guide to sustainable funding
This 40 page introductory guide provides an in-depth view of sustainability from strategic planning to understanding available income sources.