ProHelp Best Practice Guides

The ProHelp Northern Ireland Leadership Team have been working on producing these ProHelp Best Practice Guides for use by the voluntary/community sector in Northern Ireland for the last year. The team have spent a lot of time getting expertise and resources together to produce these guides in order to make them as practical and comprehensive as possible.

"Pro bono professional assistance has provided a significant contribution to regeneration in Northern Ireland. Through ProHelp the voluntary and community sector has access to a wide range of professional expertise to assist in the shaping and development of projects."

The ProHelp Northern Ireland Leadership Team involves representatives from: Bank of Scotland, Deloitte, Fire IMC, Grant Thorton, Jackson Graham Associates, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Tughans Solicitors. Many thanks go to this team for their help in producing the ProHelp Best Practice Guides. Also thanks go to Aiken PR for sponsoring a part of the guide and Fire IMC for the pro bono support they provided on designing the guides.

The ProHelp Folder contains nine different guides:

1. Capital Build projects
2. Charities and tax – an overview
3. Establishing a charitable business
4. Financial management systems
5. Marketing your organisation
6. PR and media toolkit
7. Preparing a business plan
8. The social economy
9. Writing a press release and getting it used

ProHelp - Social Enterprise

Business in the Community has recently launched a new publication providing support to social enterprises. The publication supplies information on strategic planning, employment issues, procurement, marketing and communications and effective corporate governance and is supported by Deloitte, Clarendon Executive, Bryson Charitable Group, Smarts and CM Works.

For more information on ProHelp contact Keelin Hamill on (028) 9046 0606.