• A significant change in the nature of the group from one purely involving volunteers to one of employing staff.
• The undertaking of a new responsibility such as the leasing or owning of property.
• The delivery of a new service eg the provision of a youth club.
• To broaden awareness of the benefits of getting involved with your group.
• To learn from your mistakes and do things better next time.

More reactive reasons might include:

• If a prospective funder expects certain policies to be in place before making their funds available.
• If things go wrong and a group feels there is no clear way of dealing with the challenge facing them.
• Dealing with complaints.

Whatever the reason, good practice is something that we should all be striving for and PAVS aims to lead the sector by example. All of our policies are continuously being reviewed and developed in the light of our experience and are available as models which can be downloaded here in a format whereby they can be modified to suit your purpose.