Setting up National Associations

Some important steps to setting up a national association are as follows:

• Get interested parties together to share ideas and network together
• Decide to form an association
• Get as many stakeholders involved from the start as this encourages ownership
• As there are palliative care associations already in existence you do not need to start from scratch. APCA can help you with Aims and objectives along with a basic constitution for a national association, which can then be adapted to fit the context of the new association
• The new association will need to be registered either as a charity or an NGO
• Networking with other organisations is vital
• APCA is able to put new associations in touch with more established associations that can play a mentoring role

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