Our full 'More than money' offering
Welcome to the area of the hub that introduces you to the support we offer far beyond your annual grants. In addition to your funding, we're delighted to offer a huge range of resources that we hope will help you move even closer to fulfilling your charity’s vision.
We're keen to make sure we adapt our resources along with our partners changing needs, so with the help of our ZCT Partnership Forum and partnership feedback, our #MoreThanMoney package will continue to evolve.
Who are the ZCT Partnership Forum?
The ZCT Partnership Forum (previously known as the ZCT Advisory Group) is made up members of our local and national charity partners, who meet on a quarterly basis. The objective of the group is to share and discuss the current challenges in order to identify any common themes, so that we can and look at ways that ZCT may be able to support our charity partners on broad scale.
All partners are welcome to join our partnership forum at any time - all voices are valued! If you are interested in joining the group please contact Sarah Covington in the ZCT team.
Reap the benefits of our free resources
Click to expand each of the below to understand more about the support and benefits available to you, as one of our valued partners.
Apprenticeship Levy Funding
ZCT are working together with Zurich and Corndel, to offer our charity partners a number of apprenticeships where 100% of the fees are covered through Zurich’s Apprenticeships Levy.
Corndel have been a training partner for Zurich for a number of years and have a lot of experience working with charities of all sizes. They have a huge variety of subjects and levels available for our charity partners to take advantage of. Find out more about our eligibility criteria and the apprenticeship topics available, by clicking the relevant download buttons below.
Interested? Then watch the video link below! This will give you an even greater understanding of our apprenticeship offering and what's included (please ignore any deadlines stated in the recording)
Zurich Community Trust and Corndel Apprenticeships Webinar
Hear from Wayne, an employee at our local Swindon partner, Big Breakfast Plus, who is currently completing an apprenticeship through Corndel.
The Zurich Community Trust are really excited to be working with NCVO to bring you a more flexible option regarding accessing training.
Our charity partners can book an additional five days of free training per organisation on courses of your choice! This offer will run until the 31 December 2024. These training days can be utilised on any of the NCVO open courses available on their website.
They can be utilised in a variety of ways, for example ten half day courses, five full day courses or a mixture, as long as the total number of days does not exceed five days in total! They can be used for employed staff, volunteers or trustees – however your organisation sees fit!
ZCT will be invoiced directly by the NCVO for any bookings made so you don’t have to pay anything!
How to access the training
- Pick the course and date you wish to attend (new dates are published on a regular basis) from the website All Training Events.
- Once you have decided on the course complete this form. This should be done at least two weeks before the start date to avoid disappointment.
- Once you have been manually entered onto the course you will receive a notification from our automated system and joining information and all other correspondence is sent a week before the event start.
- Should you wish to transfer please give NCVO training team at least five working days notice by contacting training@NCVO.org.
- Please let the NCVO training team know at least three days before the session if you need to cancel for any reason.
Terms
- The NCVO will NOT be able to refund any training costs incurred for courses booked directly through the website.
- The NCVO cannot accept part payment for courses, for example it will not be possible to book one person on two courses which last two days each.
- All data complies with GDPR policy and full info can be found via the T&C link in the form. Your name and organisation will be shared with the NCVO for the purpose of monitoring course bookings which ZCT are funding.
- If you cancel the course ten days prior to the event or fail to show up to a course, ZCT will still be charged, so this will still count as one of the five days available to you. We therefore strongly recommend that you find someone to replace you so that the space is not wasted.
Take a look at a list of course topics available via the link to the right. Most courses run monthly or bi-monthly (please note that not all courses are published at the same time).
If you have any questions about the courses, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with your ZCT Representative below.
Lisa Walsh
ZCT Volunteer and Partnership Manager
Locations: Brighton, Croydon, Chichester, Farnborough, London and Whiteley
07875 885168
lisa.walsh@zurich.com
Ben Wainman
ZCT Volunteer and Partnership Manager
Locations: Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds,
Manchester, and Newcastle
Tel: 07896 508303
ben.wainman@uk.zurich.com
Mark Flay
ZCT Volunteer and Partnership Manager
Locations: Bristol, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Chipping Norton, Swindon
Tel: 07812 265497
mark.flay1@uk.zurich.com
Each group membership offers up to two user licences per charity partner.
If you registered at the time of offer, you should have log in details sent to you by the provider at that time. If you are unable to locate your log in details, or the user details need to be updated, please contact Sarah Covington in the ZCT Team to arrange for this to be re-sent by the relevant provider.
ZCT currently have two group memberships, one with the NCVO and the other with DSC Funds Online funding search tool.
Both registration windows for these memberships were offered to all our charity partners at the beginning of 2023 and they will run for two years, finishing at the end of 2024.
Spare a minute? Watch the very short video below to find out more about the benefits available through NCVO membership.
Mindset is a fantastic virtual coaching tool to help you assess your areas for development. The platform uses self-assessments to create tailored feedback and ideas for action which can be used to help set focused development goals. There are a range of topics to help individuals understand who they are, what they do and how they can self-coach to achieve their aspirations.
Watch the video to underatdn the benefits of the tool in more detail:
coachingculture.com/mindset-animated-explainer-video/#/
To register for Mindset Modules click here. Once registered you will receive a link to log in from Coaching Culture Ltd.
DigiBoard are a company that uses the latest technology to support charities and not-for-profit organisations get to grips with good governance and board effectiveness.
By drawing on their experience of charity and not-for-profit governance, they have designed specific online questionnaires. They ask the right questions in the right way to get to the root of good governance for your organisation. The type of review will depend on the size of your charity. If your charity has less than £1m annual turnover, you will be offered the review for small charities (worth £900 incl vat), and those with more than £1m annual turnover, will be offered the review for larger charities (worth £1680 incl vat). You can gain a broader understanding of the benefits the review process offers by taking a closer look at the DigiBoard website here >
As ZCT are covering the costs of the review upfront, we ask you to start the review process within 2 months from completing the application form. Whilst the review is completely confidential to your organisation, ZCT will keep in touch with Digiboard to monitor progress.
Ideally there needs to be a minimum of 6 and maximum of 12 Trustees/Senior Management taking part in the review.
If you would like to apply for a free DigiBoard review, complete the form HERE
Skillshare is one of our volunteering initiatives that offers you the opportunity to benefit from the extensive skills and talents of Zurich UK's 4,000 employees.
All employees are given the opportunity to add their details to our Skillshare Register, giving us a list of willing volunteers, together with details of their knowledge and experience.
If you have a potential project that you feel would benefit from our Skillshare initiative, please get in touch and we'll use our Skillshare Register to help identify the most suitable candidate to support your project. The image below gives you an idea of the skills and talent we have access to within the UK business population.
Our employee volunteers are always eager to add value to the organisations we support. Not only do they find the experience really rewarding, but it also helps support their own development and career goals.
If you would like to find out more about Skillshare, please speak to your local ZCT Representative below.
Mark Flay Bristol, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Chipping Norton, Swindon
Lisa Walsh Brighton, Chichester, Croydon, Farnborough, London, Whiteley,
Ben Wainman Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle,
As a charity partner, your organisation can register for two online learning and personal development platforms at any time during our partnership. This includes anyone in our organisation whether they are paid staff or volunteers.
As ZCT has a maximum number of user licences at any one time and to obtain maximum value, your registration will expire after 3 months if you no longer use your licence. All is not lost though, as you can re-register at any time.
ZCT Learning Hub
Managed by Hemsley Fraser, this platform offers a whole host of personal development training materials. Over 55+ short learning modules covering a variety of topics to develop your skills within the workplace. A list of topics available can be found here:
ZCT LEARNING HUB - list of topics.pdf
To register for the ZCT Learning Hub click here. Once registered, you will receive and email from 5aoo with your login details