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Toolkits

In response to feedback from our members RAISE has produced five toolkits, which you can download free of charge:

• Leadership. Defining Leadership as 'the ability to motivate and guide the people connected to a voluntary/community organisation (VCO) to meet its goals' this toolkit compares the job of leading a VCO to the role of the leader of an expedition, who must think about the terrain, the weather, the skills of the team, and the best route to the destination. Download the Leadership toolkit here .
• Accountibility. Accountability is 'providing effective ways of explaining how power is or has been used'. This toolkit explores the five elements of Power, Responsibility, Trust, Communication and Transparency that are necessary to achieve true Accountability. Download the Accountability toolkit here .
• Representation. Representation is the process when 'one person or group of people is acting, speaking or being present on behalf of another person or group ofpeople'. Download the Representation toolkit here .
• Governance. This toolkit invites you to imagine your voluntary and community organisations as a car, being driven by the staff, which the board must keep ontrack by setting the direction, arranging the necessary maintenance and ensuring that it is driven safely, economically and effectively. Download the Governance toolkit here .
• Equalities. Defined as 'a short-hand term for all work carried out by an organisation to promote equal opportunities and challenge discrimination', this toolkit is designed to encourage reflection – on why Equalities matters, andwhy time and energy should be given over to Equalities work. Download the Equalities toolkit here .

The toolkits act as a resource for those involved in the voluntary/community sector - providing advice, information andideas in a clear, accessible format and signposting the reader to other sources which maybe of interest. The toolkits aim to help groups to take a critical look at theirorganisation, identify areas for improvement and implement change.