CVS has built up a quite sizable library of information books on subjects relating to the Voluntary and Community Sector. Please feel free to make an appointment to come in and access  these books for research purposes. Contact us on 01234 354366 to make an appointment. The reference books we hold include:

A - Z

• A Business Planning Guide to Developing a Social Enterprise          
• A Chair's First 100 Days - a Practical Guide to the Basics of Board Leadership
• A Guide to European Union Funding                         
• A Guide to Funding from Government Departments and Agencies   
• A Guide to Local Trusts in the South of England               
• A Guide to Local Trusts                                              
• A Guide to Major Trusts - Volume 2                    
• A Guide to the Major Trusts: Volume1                           
• A Management Companion                                           
• A Practical Guide to Accounting by Charities                   
• A Practical Guide to Financial Management                     
• A Practical Guide to V.A.T                                             
• Apply to Succeed!                                                         
• Applying to a Grant Making Trust                             
• Avoiding the Wastepaper Basket                              
• Boards That Work                                                         
• Brick by Brick - How to Develop a Community                 
• Charitable Status - a Practical Handbook                         
• Charity Treasurers Handbook                                    
• Clever Communications                                             
• Code of Governance Toolkit                   
• Community Start up                                                     
• Contract or Trust                                                       
• D.I.Y Guide to Charity Newsletters                                
• D.I.Y Guide to Public Relations                                  
• Developing Your Organisation                                 
• Directory of Grant Making Trusts                              
• Editing Your Newsletter                                                 
• Effective Fundraising                                                    
• Environmental Funding Guide                        
• Fail to Plan: Plan to Fail                                                
• Finding Company Sponsors                                            
• Full Cost Recovery: a Guide and Toolkit on Cost Allocation 
• Funding Our Future                                                     
• Funding Our Future 11: Understand and Allocate              
• Funding Our Future II: Understand and Allocate Costs      
• Fundraising and Trustees the Essential Guide                
• Fundraising for Charity                                                 
• Fundraising for Dummies                                             
• Fundraising Handbook                                                   
• Fundraising Management                                         
• Fundraising on the Internet                                           
• Fundraising Strategy                                                   
• Getting to Yes - Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving in                           
• Good Governance                                                         
• Good Governance The Chair's Role                                 
• Good Governance the Chief Executive's Role                   
• Good Practice in Trustee Recruitment Toolkit                   
• How to Make Your Neighbourhood a Better Place to Live      
• How to Manage Your Money, if You Have Any                  
• How to Produce Inspiring Annual Reports                        
• Image-Building and Money-Raising                              
• Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance                  
• Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance: Guide to Financial Management        
• Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance: Guide to Sustainable Funding           
• Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance: Guide to Fundraising                 
• Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance: Guide to Loans and Other Forms of Finance
• Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance: Guide to Trading                          
• Involving Young People - Guide to Board Development                        
• Just About Managing?                                                  
• Legacy Fundraising - The Art of Seeking Requests            
• Living Policy                                                           
• Make Giving go Further                                                  
• Making Funding Work                                                    
• Making News                                                                
• Managing Conflict                                                         
• Managing People                                                 
• Managing Recruitment and Selection                        
• Managing the Quality Process                                 
• Measuring Effectiveness                                          
• More than Money                                                   
• Moving Your Organisation Forward                          
• Need to Know? Fundraising                                     
• Next Steps in Quality PQASSO in Practise                        
• Occupying Community Premises (Second Edition)                                  
• Organising Local Events                                                 
• Organising Special Events                                     
• PQASSO 3rd Edition                          
• Practical Monitoring and Evaluation                      
• Promoting Your Cause               
• Quality First                                                        
• Raising Money for Good Causes                  
• Raising Money from Industry                                      
• Raising Money From Trusts                                         
• Reference Manual for Community Organisation Advisers   
• Schools Funding Guide                        
• Setting up for Success                           
• So, You're on a Committee Now                              
• Social Enterprise in the Balance                            
• Succeeding with Social Enterprise                                 
• Telephone Helplines Directory 2008 -9                     
• The Arts Funding Guide                                          
• The A-Z of Good Governance                               
• The Charity Treasurer's Handbook                        
• The Charity Trustee's Handbook                           
• The Complete Fundraising Handbook                      
• The Complete Guide to Business and Strategic Planning                     
• The Complete Guide to Creating and Managing New Projects                         
• The Complete Membership Handbook                    
• The D.I.Y Guide to Charity Newsletters                    
• The D.I.Y Guide to Powerful Publicity                       
• The Employment Records Handbook                  
• The Fundraisers Guide to the Law                            
• The Good Employment Guide for the Voluntary Sector  
• The Good Fundraising Guide - Where to Start              
• The Good Guide to Employment                             
• The Good Practice Guide                                          
• The Good Trustee Guide   
• The Grantmaking Tango: Issues for Funders                    
• The Guide to UK Company Giving                           
• The Health and Safety Handbook                           
• The Management Tool Kit                                       
• The Minute Taker's Guide Handbook                      
• The Pleasure and the Pain                                     
• The Porcupine Principle                                          
• The Sports Funding Guide                                              
• The Voluntary Sector Legal Handbook                  
• The Zen of Fundraising                                           
• Tools for Tomorrow                                             
• Tried and Tested Ideas for Raising Money Locally             
• Trustee and Management Committee Members National Occupational Standards Toolkit
• Voluntary But Not Amateur                 
• Writing Better Fundraising Applications                          
• Writing for Change                                                 
• Your Chance to Change the World                           
• Youth Funding Guide                                                    

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Many of the above books can be purchased from the:
Directory of Social Change