VCS Development

One East Midlands, which support the voices of VCS organisations to shape change in the region, has re-launched its membership scheme, increasing membership benefits, reducing membership categories and introducing paid membership to organisations with paid employees. Benefits of the new membership scheme, which ranges in cost from free for volunteer led organisations up to £100 for private and statutory organisations, include:

From 9am on 1 March, the localgiving.com March Match Fund will match all donations made to charities in England until their fund of £375,000 is allocated.

Operated by LawWorks, a national charity committed to increasing the delivery of free legal advice to individuals and communities in need, Initial Electronic Advice (IEA) aims to assist not-for-profit organisations by providing free answers from qualified solicitors to their legal questions. Once registered and approved, organisations can submit brief questions, which can be answered without the need for solicitors to have background knowledge or documents, online.