Please note that SAVO has a new email anti spam filter. We are currently educating it regarding which email addresses are legitimate. Whilst this takes place there is a slight chance that emails sent to SAVO email addresses might be blocked by the anti spam filter and therefore not received.

If you do not receive a reply to an email please contact me by telephone so we can resolve the problem.

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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!

NEW for 2010: Procurement and Tendering Guide for the VCS

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. 

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