By Claire Racine

ACEVO has announced Southern Derbyshire Voluntary Sector Mental Health Forum as the winner of ACEVO’s Full Cost Recovery Awards.

To mark the end of ACEVO’s three year project, Full Cost Recovery, and the launch of ACEVO’s new package, Full Cost Solutions, ACEVO are awarding cash prizes to three infrastructure organisations who have used their training most innovatively.

SDVSMHF are announced in first place, Project North East in second and Eastbourne Association of Voluntary Services in third.

The awards were judged by ACEVO’s FCR Steering Group and the prize fund was donated by skillsforce.

The contestants were judged on the scale of which infrastructure bodies had cascaded the training down to front line organisations and how innovatively they did so.

SDVSMHF were found to have tailored the training extremely effectively, catering for the regional and sub sector’s needs.

FCR, funded by the Big Lottery Fund, has resulted in 15,000 front line third sector organisations being trained in the principles and methodology of Full Cost Recovery.