AVA Magazine - September 22
Aberdeenshire Voluntary Action Magazine.
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<strong>AVA</strong> |<strong>September</strong> 20<strong>22</strong> 15<br />
Guidance|Keeping you informed,<br />
with all things Governance<br />
Rhona Davidson<br />
<strong>AVA</strong> Lead Development Officer<br />
(Specialising in Governance,<br />
Training and Strategic Service<br />
Development)<br />
At <strong>AVA</strong> our staff try their best to keep<br />
abreast of the ever changing and<br />
evolving support routes useful to those<br />
involved in the Third Sector, relating to the<br />
management of your group or organisation.<br />
Rhona Davidson, our Lead Development<br />
Officer specialising in Governance, Training<br />
and Strategic Services Development, has daily<br />
conversations with a variety of community<br />
groups, organisations, facilities, and individuals,<br />
pondering the merits of becoming a charity,<br />
whether through the creation of a new charity,<br />
moving their current group towards charitable<br />
status or who are seeking answers to the various<br />
questions relating to these process paths.<br />
To this end - we wanted to highlight the very<br />
recently refreshed “Setting Up A Charity”<br />
guidance written by Scottish Council for<br />
Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and which<br />
you may have been guided towards previously<br />
through your connection with Rhona, as a good<br />
process tool. The guidance covers everything<br />
from; considerations before starting a charity,<br />
how decisions will be made and how the charity<br />
will be managed longer term, summarising the<br />
different structures available to you, before<br />
describing how to make an application to<br />
become registered with the Office of the<br />
Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR). The new<br />
guidance was launched at a webinar, which<br />
was attended by Rhona on the 7th <strong>September</strong><br />
and included presentations from both OSCR<br />
and law firm, Gillespie MacAndrew who were<br />
both involved in the re-fresh and were able to<br />
answer direct questions from the attendees on<br />
relevant matters. You can watch this specific<br />
webinar on YouTube here.<br />
Rhona would love to hear from you and can<br />
offer you 1-2-1 Governance support. Just<br />
complete the support request form on our<br />
website here, or contact her by email at<br />
Rhona.Davidson@avashire.org.uk or by calling<br />
07724 617648. Rhona has had nearly 150<br />
communications with groups over the summer<br />
on this very specific topic alone – lets keep her<br />
busy!
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