Resources
Resources for Environmental Not for Profit Groups
These resources have been collated to assist with managing and creating environmental groups and their projects – Click on list items to go to resource:
- Cardinia Shire Council Environmental Volunteer Guidelines PDF
- National Standards for Volunteer Involvement
Incorporating a Not for Profit Environmental Organisation:
- Running an Incorporated Association – Consumer Affairs Victoria
- Incorporating your Environmental Group – Consumer Affairs Victoria
- Role of Committee & Committee Members – Consumer Affairs Victoria
- Role of Office Holders – Consumer Affairs Victoria
Australian Charities & Not For Profits Commission
- Who Can Apply to be Registered as a Charity ?
- Charity Definition / Legal Meaning of a Charity
- Search for a Charity / Confirm Registration
- Charitable Purpose / Recognised Charitable Purposes
- Standards & Financial Reporting
- Charitable Purposes Examples for Governing Documents
- What is A Not For Profit
- Governing Document Templates & Model Rules
- Responsible People – Board or Committee Members
Australian Taxation Office
Australian Business Register
Insurance
Starting a Landcare Group
Traditional Custodians
- Cardinia Shire Council – Reconciliation Action Plan
- Bunurong Land Council – Website
- Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation – Website
- Map of Indigenous Australia AIATSIS – Website
Occupational Health & Safety
Strategic Planning
Trust For Nature
- Trust For Nature – Conservation Covenants
- Cardinia Council Shire – Protecting Your Bushland – Trust For Nature
Volunteering Victoria
- Volunteering-is-Catching-A-study-into-young-peoples-volunteering-in-Victoria.pdf
- National-Standards-for-Volunteer-Involvement-2024.pdf
- Youth-Ready-Guide_24-Aug.pdf
- Youth-Ready-Assessment_24Aug.pdf
CEC Biolinks Project Action Plan 2008
- CEC Biolinks Action Plan 2008
*We aim to add and update these resources as often as possible but can not guarantee this*