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Covid19 VCSE Survey
Contact 1
Organization Name
Survey Details
Please tell us the number of workers (FTE or individuals?) based at the organisation
Please tell us the number of volunteers based at the organisation
Who are the usual beneficiaries of the organisation?
Children and Young People
Older People
Refugee and asylum seekers
Women
Men
LGBQTI
People with physical or learning disabilities
Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities
Other (please specify)
Who are the usual beneficiaries of the organisation? Other
What areas does your organisation cover?
Hertsmere
St Albans
Welwyn/Hatfield
Dacorum
Watford
Three Rivers
Broxbourne
East Herts
Stevenage
North Herts
Hertfordshire
Other (please specify)
What areas does your organisation cover? Other
Is your organisation still operating during the COVID-19 outbreak?
Yes
No
If No, please tell us why
If Yes, is your organisation operating a normal service or have you adapted to meet the current needs of your user group or community?
- None -
Normal service
Adapted service
If adapted, please give details about how you have adapted the service you provide
Is there increased demand for your organisation’s service as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic?
Yes
No
Are any of your organisation's clients/beneficiaries becoming more vulnerable?
Yes
No
If yes, what problems are they encountering?
Food shortage or concerns about shopping / access to food
Isolation and loneliness
Medical or Long Term Conditions
Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
Job loss
Money Management or Debt
Heath & Wellbeing issues
Other (please state)
If yes, what problems are they encountering? Other
Have you been able to adapt your services or develop new services in order to meet these needs?
Yes
No
If Yes, please provide more information
Are you working in partnership with any other organisations in response to COVID 19, if so please provide further information?
Yes
No
Are you working in partnership - If Yes, please provide more information
What does your organisation or group need now?
No additional support needed
Funding to cover COVID-19 response
Funding to cover gaps in income due to closure or drop in activity
Funding to cover gaps in income due to lack of usual fundraising activity
Partnership support to link with new opportunities to help your service users
Support to develop a recovery plan for your organisation
Support to deliver a new resilience plan to help mitigate the impact of future disruption
Support to deliver organisational change to adapt to changes in the current environment
Revisiting your place in the local voluntary sector, new opportunities or challenges
Help with supporting and retaining your volunteers, particularly any new ones recruited during the COVID-19 outbreak
Support to develop volunteer policies
Support with submitting accounts and reports - responding to regulator requirements (e.g. delayed submission of accounts or reports)
Payroll support for staff
Help to keep on top of ongoing administration during the changing regulatory regime
Safeguarding guidance and good practice
Assistance in applying for business support or job retention scheme
Assistance in financial remodelling
Work space
Mentoring / strategic help
Other (please specify)
What does your organisation or group need now? Other
Looking ahead, what support might your organisation need as the crisis comes to an end?
No additional support needed
Funding and income generation advice to support recovery
Help to create new plans and ways of working for the new environment we will be in
Support to work in new or different ways with other organisations which could help your service users
Support to identify new opportunities that will help your service users
Help to change your organisation to adapt to the way that society will have changed
Support to develop a new resilience plan to help mitigate the impact of future disruption
Revaluating what you do in the light of the way that society will have changed
Help with supporting and retaining your volunteers, particularly any new ones recruited during covid-19
Support to develop volunteer policies
Support with submitting accounts and reports – responding to regulator requirements e.g. delayed submission of accounts and reports
Help to keep on top of ongoing administration during the changing regulatory regime
Payroll support for staff
Safeguarding guidance and good practice
Assistance in financial remodelling and future business planning
Workspace
Mentoring / strategic planning
Other (please specify)
What support might your organisation need as the crisis comes to an end? Other
Have you experienced any loss of income as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic?
Yes
No
If Yes, please indicate whether this was due to
Rental Income
Closure of Services
Grants, Funding and Contracts
Increased Costs
Public Fundraising
Traded Income
Other (please specify)
Loss of income - other reason
Without additional support or funding, how long do you think your organisation can continue working
- Select -
Less than three months
Up to three months
3-6 months
6- 9 months
9-12 months
No change/ as before
Other (please specify)
Without additional support or funding, how long do you think your organisation can continue working - other
What one thing would help you through problems you are encountering
- Select -
Money
Rent holiday
Staff
More volunteers
Other (please specify)
What would help you through problems you are encountering - other
What interim financial support have you got?
Furloughing staff
Short term grants
Interim support not required
Other (please specify)
What interim financial support have you got? Other
Who is your organisation’s lead for volunteering?
What’s the current volunteering situation in your organisation?
- Select -
Too many volunteers
Not enough staff to co-ordinate volunteers
Not enough volunteers to meet current demand
Not enough volunteers in the right locations
Other (please specify)
What’s the current volunteering situation in your organisation? Other
Does your volunteer offer need to change now? Have you got new volunteers leaving to go back to work, previous volunteers who stopped (self isolating/ shielding) returning? How can you manage and support them?
Do you have a system (CRM or similar) for recording client demand and visits?
Yes
No
If yes, which system are you using?
Do you have a way of capturing cause for concern reporting e.g. safeguarding?
Yes
No
Recording concerns. If yes, please describe
Are you collecting records / data on any other related issues (e.g. wellbeing concerns)?
Yes
No
Are you collecting records / data on any other related issues. If yes please describe
Do you need support in any other area related to volunteers and volunteering
What support can Communities 1st give you?
Access to volunteers
Access to volunteer training (please specify below)
Funding advice
Introductions to other organisations for partnership working
Other (please specify)
What support can Communities 1st give you? Other
What did you achieve during Covid? It's really important to capture what you did, for volunteers and staff to feel connected to your organisation and for funders to see the impact of what you did
Is there anything else you want to tell us? If so, please tell us using the space provided
