We have resources to help with every stage of your journey with us.
Find out what you need to know before you apply
Once you've registered, make use of our ideas for promoting your venue. Access ideas and support with your password.
Resources for local area co-ordinators. Access ideas and support with your password.
Everything else, from research to project planning, volunteering and fundraising to keep your venue going.
Please get in touch if you need a password reminder: hello@cuf.org.uk
Places of Welcome Impact report 2024
Read our Impact report to discover the difference Places of Welcome have made across the country in 2024.
10 years of creating spaces where all people can feel safe to connect, belong and get involved.
Social prescribing and Places of Welcome
An overview of what Places of Welcome is, its values and the impact it has in the communities around us. As well as how it links with the work that social prescribing is already doing. A resource aimed at social prescribers.
Connecting communities to health
Discover how Places of Welcome venues can connect with social prescribing link workers and work together to improve the health and well-being of their communities. A resource aimed at those already involved with Places of Welcome.
Latest
volunteering resources
Including editable templates for risk assessment, expectations, problem solving, expenses and more.
PROJECT PLANNING FROM START
TO FINISH
Developing your vision and action plan, involving stakeholders, collecting, analysing and presenting data, monitoring your project
Snapshot survey results 2023
Read our 2023 snapshot survey to find out the impact Places of Welcome had around the country and what we have learned.
FREQUENTLY
ASKED
QUESTIONS
Criteria for opening, plus fire safety, insurance, accessibility, food safety, first aid, safeguarding and extra activities
USING OUR BRANDING
Make sure people know you’re part of the national network by using our branding on your flyers, posters and notices
Getting your place of welcome online handbook
past, free wEBINARs
Everything from financial resilience, monitoring and evaluation and mental health support to heating
Upcoming free webinars
Keep an eye out for free, upcoming webinars to support your planning and project development
Vision Development Toolkit
Simple and easy to use tools that will help you develop, explore, revisit and evaluate your project’s vision
group
facilitation
Discussing what the issues are, how you want to address them, and what steps you’ll need to take to do that
promoting your project
‘Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing’ Rollo May
social media toolkit
Ideas and themes that will work across most types of social media to help publicise your work