Practical Project Management is a realistic and easy-to-follow guide to managing projects for voluntary organisations. It will help you shape and structure the passion that drives your work in order to achieve positive results. The book leads you through the key stages of project management from preparation to delivery and discusses the activities and decisions you will need to succeed. It covers: * Key tools and models for project planning * Resource management and risk control * Budget planning and dealing with finances * Project evaluation and assessing social benefit Incorporating down-to-earth examples and case studies, this book is essential for everyone involved in project management for the voluntary sector and vital to those who are new to this area.

A guide to risk management for those positions of responsibility. The reader will be all too aware of what could go wrong in your own organisation, but may not have learned the tools to assess and manage those problems. The book focuses on project risk at the grassroots - the niggly details that can make an organisation fail or succeed.This book will unpack risk and help the reader understand that looking at what could go wrong and planning what the reader might do about it is far more about creativity and being prepared than about fulfilling some external requirement. It will give the reader the language and the tools to meet risk head on and create appropriate responses to it. Includes; Defining and identifying risk, categorising risk types, risk analysis, risk mitigation and management. Includes an example risk management plan that you can follow as the book progresses.