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Welcome to the SAVO Homepage |
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The aim of our website is to provide Suffolk's voluntary and community sector with tools, resources and relevant information to help them operate successfully. Please visit regularly to find out what's new!
 We've tried to set out the website in such a way that it's easy to navigate, but we welcome any comments or suggestions that you would like to make!
SAVO's new training guide, covering January to September 2012, is now available. To download a copy click here
New for 2011: Suffolk Sound - SAVO's new e-newsletter. Sign up to receive your copy here
SAVO is a member of The Suffolk Congress, “a dynamic response by the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) in Suffolk, to the issues and challenges that cuts in funding will bring. The Suffolk Congress is open to all VCS Groups in Suffolk and works as a collaborative network, enabling communication, engagement and action.”
To find out more about, and sign up to, The Suffolk Congress click here
To read the report on SAVO's Fit for Change Conference click here
What can you expect from SAVO?
- Help to take and shape your ideas to start a voluntary and community group
- Support for you, your staff, trustees and volunteers to become more skilled, work to the correct legislation and run your organisation affectively
- Assistance to find the money you need to take your projects forward (by the provision of a Funding and Development Officer in Suffolk Coastal or by signposting to appropriate help in other areas)
- Support to improve and strengthen what you do by undertaking an organisational ‘health check’
- More involvement by receiving up to date information through your membership of SAVO (you’ll get access to Vollies and other updates)
- Through the Suffolk Volunteering Federation, share best practice recruiting, supporting and developing volunteers and in Suffolk Coastal we can directly help you to find volunteers
- Help to develop long term plans to make your organisation more sustainable
- Support for tendering and gaining contracts to deliver services
- The provision of Compact advocacy if you feel that your relationship with the public sector has been compromised
- Information on new ideas and opportunities and changes in legislation that may affect you
- Access to specialist training and learning opportunities
- Provision of a CRB Disclosure checking service and (coming soon) the new ISA
- Your first port of call for information and clarity on both CRB’s and the ISA
- Opportunities to meet people from other organisations, share experiences and knowledge and to network with them via our Assemblies, focus groups and other forums and meetings
- Your views and needs represented to the public sector locally in Suffolk, regionally and nationally.
To ensure that you and your organisation access the latest information from us, make sure that you sign up to our mailing list. We send out  regular briefings through this list, including information on funding, training, representation, policy, changes to legislation...
SAVO is an infrastructure organisation for the voluntary and community sector in Suffolk.
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