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Charity Digital have compiled an extensive charity glossary of all phrases and terminology related to the charity sector, philanthropy, and non-profit organisations, and offer a succinct description of each.

This guide from NPC helps senior leaders take a strategic approach. It contains step-by-step guidance on how to effectively incorporate insight from lived experience throughout your organisation.

This newsletter is published bi-monthly and is co-produced with parent carers and carer organisations in Gloucestershire. It provides children & young people with special educational needs and disabilities, and those who support them, with information updates. 

Warm Welcome Spaces bring connection, friendship, and human warmth, helping people feel less isolated and lonely and boosting wellbeing. Why not explore your nearest Warm Welcome Space today?

Gloucestershire Carers Hub offers translation services to carers who are not fluent in English. They can provide this service as a telephone or as a face-to-face meeting. Leaflets in a number of languages can be found on their website. Their website also has a translation function. If translation services are required, for those making referrals to the hub, please state this on the referral form when it is completed.

Are you working in Gloucestershire to support people with digital skills? You may be working as a volunteer in a community setting to better use computers, phones and tablets, or as an employee in an organisation such as a medical surgery or a support service to increase visitors’ digital skills, confidence and accessibility. If so, find out more about the Gloucestershire Digital Champions Network (part of the DIGI Partnership and funded by the NHS).

Support is available to help individuals to achieve and maintain a drug free life. NA are keen to offer community support within Gloucestershire and would love to offer a presentation to community teams or have a conversation about how to work together. Their meeting directory in Gloucestershire is here: Gloucestershire Directory and can be printed off as a PDF. 

NCVO looks at the key issues in charity and electoral law when advocating for policy change. Many charities are concerned about the potential risks of political campaigning, so this guidance is here to help.

Community events from street parties and village fêtes to regular play groups, youth clubs and social get-togethers create connections, help people feel part of a community, and provide much needed support. But they can also create all kinds of waste. Here you can find tips from TNL Community Fund to cut the carbon footprint of your events and minimise waste.

The Peer Partnership - part of Brigstowe, a Bristol-based charity that supports people living with and affected by HIV. They run online workshops on areas such as Boundaries in the Workplace, Recognising and Responding to Challenging Behaviour, How to Run a Focus Group and Group Dynamics and Facilitation.