Sustaining the CYP Sector Conference materials

Due to the ongoing public health concerns around coronavirus, our 'Sustaining the CYP Sector' conference - aimed at VCSE organisations working with children and young people in Bristol - moved online in March 2020.

The conference was part of the Youth Sector Support Fund, which is carried out by Voscur, Quartet Community Foundation and Bristol City Council. 

Twitter Q&A

Instead, we offered a Twitter Q&A as a chance to ask questions about the issues affecting your services for children and young people. We will summarise the main Q&A points for those of you who missed the live discussion.

Workshop materials

Please scroll down for PDF attachments related to some of the planned workshops at the conference - more will be added over time. We have materials covering the following topics:

Bristol's CYP sector
The Children's Charter - the charter, launched in August 2018, is a series of 10 pledges to children and young people, making their quality of life a priority. It is based on the United Nation Conventions on the Rights of the Child. 

Hot topics

Marketing your CYP organisation
Social media plan template - learn what a basic social media plan can look like. Our example covers Twitter and Facebook. 

Sustainability: Planning for the future
Planning Tree tool - this diagram lets you consider the issues or needs connected to your organisation and service users, the project you want to create, the resources you have, and the outcomes you are looking for. We recommend writing your issues or needs, project details, resources and outcomes on Post-It notes to make your own tree diagram on a large piece of paper. 

Sustainability: Funding strategy
Improving bid grant success - guidelines to help you improve your chances of success when applying for grants, including insight on why most bids fail, giving you an idea of what to avoid.