{"id":20337,"date":"2019-01-02T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=20337"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:41:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:41:44","slug":"happy-new-year-from-vanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2019\/01\/happy-new-year-from-vanel\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy new Year from VANEL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to 2019 and a Happy New Year to you all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The VANEL offices are now back open again after our Christmas break and we\u2019re looking forward to supporting our Members and Friends throughout 2019. Don\u2019t forget to call us on 01472 231123 to start a conversation about how we can help you or contact us via office@vanel.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2019 we\u2019ll be continuing with many of our same projects and support services, but of course we\u2019ll also be looking forward to new projects and programmes evolving as the year progresses.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re busy thinking about our own New Year Resolutions and what VANEL should be doing this year. So what are you choosing as your resolutions?<\/p>\n

Two I\u2019d like to suggest you add to your list are:
\n-Keep in touch with VANEL more often to see what they can help with.
\n-Make sure we\u2019re following the VANEL e-newsletter every week (by signing up at www.vanel.org.uk\/signup<\/a>).
\n(Oh, and, in line with GDPR, please make a resolution NOT to CC everyone in emails this year without their permission – that\u2019s what BCC is for and I\u2019m staggered by how many emails we still receive from organisations that make dozens of email addresses public in their emails!!)<\/p>\n

We look forward to hearing from you during 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for ideas about New Year Resolutions then here are just some of the developmental areas that I think you could be exploring this year. And VANEL can discuss any of these with you to guide you in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Get better at managing your volunteers
\nImprove your governance practices around your board\/committee
\nInvest in training for your staff and volunteers
\nImprove your social media presence
\nEnsure technology is doing its part for your organisation
\nImprove your fundraising inline with good practices
\nReview your financial practices
\nStart taking some risks, experiment, branch out, try something different
\nReach out to new beneficiaries or work harder with existing ones
\nGet a robust disaster recovery plan setup
\nConnect with more local partners
\nGet on top of boring admin and systems and make sure you\u2019re legal, have all the right policies in place etc
\nGo back to those GDPR processes you didn\u2019t quite finish off last year
\nBuild more trust in your organisation
\nGet your website under control and up to date
\n…<\/p>\n

We\u2019d like to hear from you at VANEL and see how we can point you in the right direction on any of your resolutions. Best of luck for 2019.<\/p>\n\n

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Welcome to 2019. Happy New Year from the whole team at VANEL. Thinking about getting some new year resolutions in place for your organisation? Read on for our thoughts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-5i1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20339,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20337\/revisions\/20339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}