About Community Support North Yorkshire

Helping your organisation to flourish.

Community Support North Yorkshire helps voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) groups to grow and thrive by providing specialist advice, guidance and training.

We are a local infrastructure support organisation for North Yorkshire. Our experienced team is here to help established and aspiring trustees, employees and management committees with a wide range of organisational support including:

  • Finding potential grants and funds, support with applications and fundraising ideas.
  • Understanding governance structure, registration and compliance.
  • Helping you engage with your community and delivering effective services.
  • Business planning and financial management.
  • Developing policies and good safeguarding practices.
  • Strengthening social media and marketing activities.
  • Recruiting and managing new volunteers, including attracting new trustees.
  • Carrying out an organisational health check.

We can connect you with quality resources, peer support and personal development opportunities, as well as offer one-to-one advice.

Take a look at the support we offer in our leaflet.

Community Support North Yorkshire is a service provided by Community First Yorkshire and funded by North Yorkshire Council and NHS North Yorkshire.

To get in touch simply complete our online registration form and one of our Community Support North Yorkshire team will get in touch.

Meet the Community Support North Yorkshire team
Andy Ryland
Andy Ryland

Development Officer

Contact Andy for: Men’s Sheds, funding, training and governance.

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Andy Shiield
Andy Shield

Development Officer

Contact Andy for: Governance, funding, Community Led Housing, training and skills audits.

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Carole Roberts
Carole Roberts

Community Support Delivery Manager

Contact Carole for: information about the Community Support North Yorkshire service.

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Hilary Ashton
Hilary Ashton

Development Officer

Contact Hilary for: advice on choosing a charitable structure, constitutions, trustee issues, community buildings, funding, strategic and/or financial planning, volunteering.

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Michael Fletcher
Michael Fletcher

Development Officer

Contact Michael for: support with developing your community group or voluntary sector organisation from funding to finance, volunteering to charity governance.

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Nicky Smith
Nicky Ruddick

Development Officer

Contact Nicky for: advice on governance including registering as a charity, community buildings, children and young people’s projects and tap into her vast experience of grant funding.

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Simona Gorin
Simona Gorin

Leadership Development and Operational Assistant

Contact Simona for: information about our training, and joining our Leadership Mentoring programme.

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Vicki Sharp

Development Officer

Contact Vicki for: support with developing your community group or voluntary sector organisation from funding to finance, volunteering to charity governance.

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