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Tuesday 20 December 2016

Merry Christmas!

We would like to wish all our service users, stakeholders and funders a very merry Christmas and happy and peaceful New Year. Thank you for your support during the year and we look forward to serving you in 2017! Details of our services over the festive period are available here.

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Expertise in business development and marketing?

WYCAS is recruiting a part time Business Development Manager. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to help us in the next stage of our organisational development. You can find further information and an application pack on our dedicated recruitment page.

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QuickBooks Online freshens up!

Intuit is changing how a few things look on QBO during December and January, aiming to make it look brighter and be simpler to get to the recording and reporting functions that you use.

Navigation will be adjusted with the + menu and the search menu moving to the top right hand side of the screen.  The Left hand side options will also be restructured. If you currently subscribe through WYCAS watch out for these changes, coming to your screen soon!

If you want to know more about QBO, watch this (15 minute) video to find out why WYCAS think it is a good tool for third sector financial management.

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New standards for grant making

Earlier this month the Cabinet Office published new guidance on grant making to ensure that grants are effectively managed across government. Whilst there has been a welcome for the withdrawal of anti-lobbying proposals amongst sector representative bodies there are some concerns about other changes. In particular, National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) has identified several areas of potential concern where the new standards may harm small charities and community groups.

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Free easy to read Good Trustee Guide

The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has published an easy to read guide aimed at helping people with learning disabilities to become charity trustees. The guide will also be useful to a wider audience. It has been issued in 4 easy to read booklets which set out:

1. What is a charity
2. What is a charity trustee
3. What trustees must do
4. How trustees look after the charity

These are free to download from the NCVO website.

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New Year, New Learning…

Looking for opportunities to learn something new in 2017? Here are a few suggestions for things we have coming up...

23 February 2017, 10am – 1pm: for Leeds groups – DIY accounts in excel (how to set up and use our free spreadsheet tool ; email Claire Welling to  book a place.

28 February in Leeds – Commissioning. This session run by WYCAS is a follow up session to Commissioning – Bidding for Contracts delivered by VAL, which supports third sector groups to complete tenders.  It will focus on producing a budget for your project/service and help you to complete the financial requirements of a tender and demonstrate your financial capacity and controls.

1 March 2017 - QuickBooks for Beginners course in Bradford.

Spring 2017 – the second E-Learning course of our on-line NVQ Level 3 accredited course on Financial Practice and Procedures. 3 months of learn-in-your-own-time materials. The course covers the core elements of good financial management and is suitable for trustees, finance workers, volunteer treasurers and anyone else in the third sector interested in developing their financial management knowledge and skills.

Tailored training for your staff or management committee: can be delivered at any time. If you have any requests please get in touch.

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Co-op Community Fund

The Co-op Local Community Fund is looking for good local causes to support, from funds raised locally. Co-op members get 1% of everything they spend on Co-op products to give to a local cause that matters to them. You can find out more details and apply here.

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Our services

WYCAS provides a range of specialist services designed to meet the needs of the third sector:

• One to one support and training
• Preparation of year-end accounts
• Independent examination
• Financial training courses and workshops
• Computerising accounts
• Bookkeeping and management accounts
• Advice and information
• Bespoke consultancy projects

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