A Beginner's Guide to Commissioning

• Do you support organisations in your community?
• Are you new to this thing called 'commissioning'?
• Do you want ideas for more effectively working with the public sector?

The commissioning of local public services and the impact on communities and organisations is as important as ever. Huge numbers of people play some role in supporting voluntary and community organisations to navigate this often complex world of local commissioning, but where do you start?

We provide, for the first time, a guide for development workers starting out on this journey of supporting organisations to engage with the commissioning landscape.

The guide covers:

• what commissioning is
• why it is important for development workers
• ways of supporting organisations
• ideas for working with the public sector

There are also useful checklists on developing effective local networks, gathering relevant evidence for tendering and working out what you need to know.

Electronic copies

A Beginner's Guide to Commissioning

Annex 1: Checklist for tendering

Annex 2: Effective network checklist

Hard copies

All NAVCA members received a free hard copy in 2011. Since then the guide has been selling like proverbial hot cakes! 

Members can order further free copies while stocks last. 

For non-members hard copies retail for £10 each. A discount applies for bulk orders, enquire on order.