Community guidance

Commanet is a charity that promotes and supports community archives, offering advice and guidance on collections that are brought together and curated by local people.

Information for individuals and third sector organisations that need advice on how to manage and support volunteers is available via Volunteering England.

There are also resources and information available from the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) on how and why sport and the third sector work together, as well as examples and resources to support joint working.

Homes and Communities Agency

In a Nutshell is an online learning programme provided by HCA which supplies background to beginners working in sustainable communities. The courses aim to bring together professionals in the public, private and community sectors working towards the delivery of sustainable communities. Each aims to help participants develop their understanding of what sustainable communities are, explore national and regional policy and consider the roles of the organisations and individuals charged who are delivering sustainable communities.

The Values framework, produced by HCA, is aimed at elected members and councillors, to help them understand what constitutes a sustainable community.

The South East Cultural Observatory

The Cultural Social Enterprise Toolkit, hosted by the South East Cultural Observatory (SECO), is aimed at social entrepreneurs who want to work with local government or with other public sector organisations, and at local authority officers who can see the benefits of working with social enterprises to deliver services. These pages focus on cultural services, but the principles and benefits are the same for all services that social enterprise can deliver.