General Federation of Trade Unions
Project Management
The GFTU has considerable experience in applying for external finance to deliver successful projects both for itself and for other organisations. The GFTU is able to provide a cost-effective service to trade unions and other organisations in the preparation, delivery, management and/or external evaluation of project activity.
Project Management Service
- The GFTU is regularly contracted to undertake activity related to the development and delivery of small-scale and large-scale project activity.
- The GFTU can help you: Identify funding opportunities
- Generate preparatory concept notes that help shape project ideas
- Prepare and submit full project applications
- Manage all areas of project activity: operational and financial management, provision of project workers, monitoring and evaluation and all aspects of administration
The GFTU is also able to provide its central London location for the hosting of events: project launch, project dissemination, project steering group meetings, training events
To discuss informally what the GFTU is able to provide for you, please contact Judith Jackson (Head of Educational Service) on 0207 520 8340 or e-mail Judith@gftu.org.uk.
Examples of Previous Project Activity
Some recent examples of project activity are identified below. You will also find a link to either a published national evaluation report from the project funder or other example of published material that identifies the GFTU’s role.
1. Provision of pensions education to trade union members in workplace settings
2. Increasing the organisational and operational effectiveness of trade unions
3. Provision of support and guidance to affiliates working with migrant workers
Current Project Activity
Amongst other areas of current work the GFTU has commenced a new, national project which will seek (during 2010-12) to provide frontline advice and guidance to vulnerable workers via a series of employment rights fairs across the UK. The GFTU is funding this strategic exercise via the Union Modernisation Fund (UMF) of the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS). See more details in the BIS press release which you can download at: http://www.berr.gov.uk/whatwedo/employment/trade-union-rights/modernisation/page16097.html
Although the GFTU is located in the UK its educational and project activity is international. Recently, for example, the GFTU commenced work with several staff unions of different UN agencies who are affiliated to the Co-ordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations of the United Nations System (CCISUA) (http://www.ccisua.org/).
Register as a Project Partner
The GFTU seeks to work with imaginative, creative organisations that can support the delivery of project activity both in the UK and internationally. The GFTU is seeking expressions of interest for potential project partners to support activity around four key themes:
1. Social dialogue. Measures which strengthen workplace industrial relations practice through, for example, the sharing and dissemination of good practice.
2. Workers’ activities. Activity which secures the place and position of trade union representatives.
3. Role of representative organisations. Activity which promotes the social and economic value of trade union organisations in civil society.
4. Pensions and social welfare provision. Measures that extend knowledge of pension and welfare provision to workers. Measures that secure employment and limit economic and labour market vulnerability.
To discuss informally your registration as a partner for GFTU projects please contact Ian Manborde (Projects Officer) on 0207 520 8340 or e-mail Ian@gftu.org.uk.