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The following books and publications are held at Involve and are available on loan to all charities, voluntary and community groups in Mid Devon. Details of how to order your own copies are also available from Involve. The books are grouped under the following subjects (click on the subject to see the list):

If you wish to download a copy of the leaflet 'Lending Library' Please click here: Downloads 


Legal issues

  • Choosing and preparing a Government Document
  • Co-operative and Community Business Legal Structures
  • Data Protection Act 1998
  • Data Protection for Voluntary Organisations
  • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - A guide
  • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - An introduction
  • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - Code of practice
  • Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - Code of practice rights of access
  • Distinctive Character of Charities
  • Disability Equality in Volunteering
  • Employment Legislation
  • Guide to Charities Acts 1992 & 1993
  • Health and Safety First Principles
  • Health and Safety Handbook for Voluntary Organisations
  • Human Rights Act 1998 - Study Guide
  • Insurance Guide for Voluntary Organisations
  • Joining Forces: The Black & Minority Ethnic Twinning Initiative
  • Involving Users in the Running of Voluntary Organisations
  • Legal Structures for Voluntary Organisations
  • Managing Occupational Road Risk
  • Model Constitution for a Community Association
  • Model Constitution for Charitable Unincorporated Association
  • Model Memorandum & Articles of Association for a Charitable Company
  • Practical Guide to Company Law - for Voluntary Organisations
  • VAT for Voluntary Organisations
  • Voluntary Sector Legal Handbook

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Fundraising

  • Arts Funding Guide
  • Avoiding the Wastepaper Basket
  • Business in the Community
  • Codes of Fundraising Practice
  • Codes of Fundraising Practice 2004
  • Complete Fundraising Handbook
  • Directory of Grant Making Trusts
  • Environmental Funding Guide
  • Funding our Future - Core Costs Revisted
  • Guide to Grants for Individuals Needs
  • Guide to Local Trusts in South of England 99/2000
  • Guide to Local Trusts in South of England 02/03
  • Guide to the Major Trusts 1999/2000
  • Guide to the Major Trusts 2001/2002
  • Guide to the Major Trusts 2002/2003
  • Guide to the Major Trusts 2003/2004 vol 1
  • Guide to the Major Trusts 2003/2004 vol 2
  • Making Giving Go Further
  • Raising Money for Good Causes
  • Raising Money from Trusts
  • Schools Funding Guide
  • Sports Funding Guide
  • Successful Fundraising
  • Third World Directory
  • Writing Better Fundraising Applications
  • Your Project and its Outcomes
  • Youth Funding Guide

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Financial Management

  • Charity Treasurer's Handbook
  • Financial Planning and Control
  • Getting Ready for Contracts
  • How to Manage Money If You Have Any
  • Practical Guide to Charity Accounting

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Management Committee Responsibilities

  • Charity Commission - Users on Board
  • Charity Trustee's Handbook
  • Directory of Chartered Secretaries in Public Practice 2003
  • Effective Trustee Part 1: Roles and Responsibilities
  • Effective Trustee Part 2: Aims and Resources
  • Effective Trustee Part 3: Getting the Work Done
  • Emphasise the Positive - guide to positive action for racial equality
  • Just About Managing - 3rd Edition
  • Management Companion for Voluntary Organisations
  • Managing Without Profit
  • Minute Taker's Handbook
  • Quality First - Quality Assurance Management
  • Voluntary but not Amateur - 5th Edition
  • Voluntary Matters - guide to Managment and Good Practice
  • Volunteers on Management Committees

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Project Planning and Development

  • Business and Strategic Planning
  • Creating and Managing New Projects
  • Developing Your Organisation
  • Devon 21 Directory Working Towards a More Sustainable Devon
  • Home Office Citizenship Survey 2001
  • Managing Change in Voluntary Organisations
  • Special Needs in Devon
  • The Pub is The Hub - good practice guide - The Countryside Agency

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Starting Groups 'from Scratch'

  • Community Start Up 1985
  • Community Start Up revised edition
  • Self-Help Groups - Getting Started and Keeping Going
  • Social Needs in Devon
  • Starting and Running a Voluntary Group (1989)

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Recruiting and Managing Staff and Volunteers

  • Building Staff/Volunteer Relations
  • Charity as a Business
  • Charity Commission - Users on Board
  • Disability Equality in Volunteering
  • Employee Volunteering -The Guide
  • Essential Volunteer Management
  • (Help) I Don't Have Enough Time - Guide to Volunteer Management
  • Issues in Voluntary and Non-profit Management
  • Joining Forces - The Black and Minority Ethnic Twinning Initiative
  • Management Companion for Voluntary Organisations
  • Managing People
  • Managing Recruitment and Selection
  • Motivating Volunteers
  • Personal Advisers Handbook - Cornwall and Devon Careers
  • Recruiting Volunteers
  • Safer Recruitment to Protect the Vulnerable
  • Supervising Volunteers (What we Learned the Hard Way)
  • Volunteer Recruitment Book
  • Volunteering by Black People
  • Volunteering by People with Disabilities
  • Volunteering by Older People
  • Volunteering by Unemployed People
  • Volunteering by Young People
  • Volunteers on Management Committees
  • You Cannot Be Serious - Guide to involving volunteers with mental health problems

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General Good Practice

  • Good Practice Guide (1998)
  • Good Practice Guide (2nd Edition)
  • Practical Monitoring & Evaluation (A Guide for Voluntary Organisations)
  • Quality First Quality Assurance Management for Community Organisations
  • The Pub is the Hub - The Countryside Agency
  • Safe and Alert - Vols with Vulnerable Clients
  • Safe and Alert - Good Practice Advice on Working in Vulnerable Situations (2nd edition)
  • The Visible Difference - Making it Happen
  • Toolkit for Developing & Implementing Equal Opportunities Policies
  • Voluntary Matters
  • Good Practice GuideWhy? (Royal Mail Participants Workbook)
  • You Cannot Be Serious - Guide to involving volunteers with mental health problems

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Consultation and Involvement

  • Becoming a NHS Foundation Trust
  • Centre for Community Visions - Resource Pack
  • Getting Involved - a practical manual
  • Good Campaigns Guide
  • Participation Works - Techniques for Community Participation
  • Passport to Crime Reduction - Home Office
  • Short Guide to NHS Foundation Trusts

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Community Development

  • Bridging Communities - A Race Equality Action Guide for CAB
  • Building Learning Communities
  • Challenging Racism in the Rural Idyll
  • Skills + Knowledge = Power - Neighbourhood Renewal Unit
  • What, Why and How of Neighbourhood Community Development

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Health Issues

  • Drugs & Alcohol - The Health Forum
  • Early Years & Health
  • Managing Occupational Road Risk
  • Preventing Accidental Injury
  • Preventing & Reducing Obesity
  • Promoting Health & Active Life in Older Age
  • Promoting Physical Activity
  • Promoting Positive Sexual Health
  • Promoting Psychological Health & Emotional Wellbeing
  • Reducing Falls Among Older People
  • Reducing Smoking
  • Social Inclusion
  • Tackling Inequalities in Food & Nutrition

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Social Care Issues

  • Protectionof Adults at Risk-Information from DCC Social Services

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Compacts

  • Black & Minority Ethnic Voluntary & Community Organisations
  • Code of Good Practice on Community Groups
  • Consultation & Policy Appraisal
  • Funding: a Code of Good Practice
  • Inspection of Local Authority Social Services & Voluntary Sector Working Relationships
  • Local Compact Guidelines
  • Relationships between Government & The Voluntary Sector & Community Sector in England
  • Volunteering: a Code of Good Practice

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Publicity

  • Getting Your Message Across (2nd edition)
  • Making News - Producing a Community Newspaper

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Skills

  • Minute Takers Handbook
  • Rapid & Effective Reading
  • WHY? Royal Mail Participants Workbook
  • Writing Better Fundraising Applications

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Miscellaneous

  • At the heart of the community economy - community enterprise
  • Challenging Ageism
  • Local Inter Faith Activity in the UK
  • Manager's Good Study Guide
  • Organising Local Events
  • Private Action, Public Benefit - A Review of Charities
  • Reference Manual for Community Organisations Advisers
  • Signals of Success - a user's guide to 'indicators'
  • Social Auditing for Small Organisations
  • The Gentle Art of Listening - Counselling Skills For Volunteers
  • Voluntary Agencies Directory 1999
  • Volunteers and Welfare Benefits - Guidance Notes
  • Women At The Wheel

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Periodicals

  • Access Journal
  • Caring (the Carers UK magazine
  • Community Matters
  • Comapct What's New
  • Devon Funding News
  • DSC News (newsletter of the Directory of Social Change)
  • Devon Link (for people with physical and sensory disabilities in Devon)
  • NCVO News - Magazine of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations
  • Regeneration & Renewal
  • Volunteering magazine
  • Village Green (from the Community Council of Devon)
  • Voluntary Sector magazine (by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations - NCVO)
  • Young People Now
  • Zero2Nineteen

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Made possible by funding from the Devon Community Foundation, the Rural Development Programme and in memory of Peter Berger.


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