G:up Resources
G:up Quarterly Newsletter
The latest on G:up's projects, opportunities and new tools designed specifically to benefit the West Midlands children and young people’s voluntary and community sector (CYP VCS)
New G:XL Resources
A great free resource for the sector. Assess your organisation's development in key work areas, find out what quality standards could benefit you and print and keep reports to share with colleagues, trustees or funders.
Based on G:XL's audit of West Midlands CYP VCS organisations and strategic representatives’ experiences of strategic representation and looking at the situation now, across the West Midlands. It also includes a number of resources on best practice for strategic representation (in the Appendices).
Developed from the findings of the above audit report and designed to support the West Midlands CYP VCS, by developing the role of West Midlands CYP VCS strategic representatives, improving and increasing representation, including of underrepresented organisations and exploring sustainability beyond 2011/2012.
Analysing a G:XL audit of children and young people's participation in every West Midlands local authority area and providing several excellent participation resources.
Quality Standard schemes used by organisations in the West Midlands, children and young people's (CYP), voluntary and community sector (VCS), what makes an effective organisation and various stand alone resources.
Workforce training needs and barriers to organisations undertaking or delivering training, in the West Midlands CYP VCS.
Building on the audit report, designed to support the coordination of training and workforce development regionally and sub-regionally, enabling the CYP VCS to address gaps in training needs and provision and to implement change.
Guiding G:up’s marketing and communications across all its work, to meet the needs of G:up, its members and stakeholders.
A practical guide for VCS Infrastructure Support Organisations (ISOs) to increase their reach and the diversity of their affiliates.
G:up, NCVYS Collaboration Report
- A case study of G:up’s experience, with much valuable advice on working collaboratively, developing partnerships and contracting and commissioning. Download the report here.
Archive
- A Slice of the Cake - G:up's popular funding and resource toolkit
- Integrated Commissioning and Children’s Trusts: Opportunities and Threats for the Voluntary Youth Sector - Report of a workshop organised by the West Midlands Voluntary Youth Services Forum and financed by the Government Office West Midlands, June 2006
- Children, Young People and Governance in the West Midlands - A Report on the Findings of Research carried out by the G:up, June 2006
- Growing Up and Branching Out - Diversity and Outreach Research Report for Local Infrastructure Organisations, 2007
- Integrated Commissioning: A Collaborative Regional Approach to Voluntary Sector Engagement - exploring how to more effectively engage the VCS in the commissioning of children’s services, June 2006
- Making Local Area Agreements Work for Children and Young People: the Role of the Voluntary and Community Sector, 2006
- Children and young people’s participation case studies - Nine examples of participatory practice from around the West Midlands, 2007
- Growing Up in The West Midlands - Participation Practice - profile by The Children's Society of G:up's work around children and young people’s participation in decision making, 2007
- Regeneration case studies - social regeneration in action: four case studies from diverse organisations in the West Midlands, showing how their activities contribute to regeneration and the development of sustainable communities, 2007
- Youth Governance Toolkit - self assessment toolkit and grading tool and report: "Governance is at the heart of our sector" (Governance Hub), this tool helps you develop quality assurance processes and accountability in your organisation, 2007
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