bfunded - Social Enterprise - Financial planning

Financial planning, including full cost recovery, will enable you to ensure you have the funds you need to carry out your activities and achieve your objectives and that you have taken all costs into account.

Where can I get help with financial planning?

West Yorkshire Community Accounting Service (WYCAS), www.wycas.org.uk

You may be able to access training and support from WYCAS. WYCASis a small charitable company operating mainly though not exclusively in West Yorkshire. Their overall aim is to develop the ability of voluntary and community sector organisations with charitable aims to manage their money more efficiently and effectively, enabling those organisations to better attain the objectives that they were set up to achieve.

WYCAS runs a variety of courses relating to the financial management of voluntary organisations including full cost recovery, budgeting and cashflow forecasting, see http://www.wycas.org.uk/services/financialmanagement.htm

They also have an Advice Line, tel: 0113 270 6269, email: info@wycas.org.uk
The WYCAS advice line is open from 9 to 5 pm every weekday except for the first Wednesday in the month and is staffed by their accountancy staff.

One to one support may also be available, contact, Dave Collins, WYCAS Community Accountant Bradford, Tel: 01422 835192

Other Help

Further help is available from local support organisations and agencies.