Our finances and pay

Historically, our income comes from three main sources.

• Our members, who pay an annual membership fee (unless their income is under £30,000).
• Our services, including our training, consultancy and our conference venue.
• Charities Aid Foundation, a charity established by NCVO, which helps bring charities and donors together.

We employ around 85 staff. Salaries for the chief executive, chief operating officer and directors are set and reviewed annually by our people, culture and inclusion committee (a sub-committee of our board of trustees).

The committee includes specialists with significant pay expertise and knowledge, especially of the voluntary sector.

All other staff salaries are set by the leadership team. They're arranged in organisation-wide pay bands:

• using comparisons with charities of our size in London
• considering factors including inflation and our financial position.

Salaries are openly stated in job adverts.

We're ambitious for the voluntary sector. We believe in recruiting skilful, talented people to provide the biggest positive impact for the voluntary sector.

We also believe in rewarding staff fairly for their jobs and fostering a positive working environment. We believe our salaries and terms and conditions reflect this.

We are a living wage-accredited employer. All our staff and contractors are paid at least the living wage or London living wage.

People are employed at NCVO because of their specific skills and experience. We need a large range of knowledge, skills, experience and professional qualifications to run successfully.

We need to pay appropriately to make sure we can recruit people with the right skills and retain staff in a competitive market. Our staff pay scales are set with these factors in mind.

It’s also important to us that our staff develop skills that are readily transferable to other organisations, both in the voluntary sector and in other sectors. This will help staff in their future roles and career progression.