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eLearning: Roles and duties of trustees

Trustees play an important role in making sure charities are well-managed and can achieve their aims. This accessible, interactive trustee eLearning course lets you study in your own time and at your own pace so you can fit around your schedule and priorities.

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

This course will help you implement structures and processes to support trustees, and ensure systems are aligned with your organisation’s purpose and objectives

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

This course will introduce processes and tools to help ensure that decision-making is responsive to your environment and focused on the most important issues affecting your organisation

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Learn how to create an evaluation plan to better understand and demonstrate the difference your work makes

Leading external engagement (2 days)

This practical two-day course for aspiring and existing charity leaders will build your confidence and skills to deliver impact for yourself and your organisation. Learn who your key stakeholders are and how to use communication tools to build engagement and partnerships

Volunteers and the law (0.5 day)

This course will help you create a positive and inclusive experience for volunteers. The course will explore best practice in relation to safeguarding, data protection, health and safety, and equality

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

This practical session will build your awareness of different types of reporting and support you to tell a compelling story through your reporting

The FSI to transfer key small charity assets to NCVO on closure

The Foundation for Social Improvement and NCVO have reached an agreement to transfer the FSI’s key charity assets to NCVO when the organisation ceases activity on 3 May 2023

  • Inside NCVO

Small charity support: 5 key points for insfrastructure organisations

  • Collaboration

How to join the Big Help Out

We share stories from people taking part in the Big Help Out and explain how you can get involved and make a difference in your community

  • Involving volunteers

Governance round-up: May 2023

This month we share reflections from our Governance Forum and introduce our new governance consultant

  • Governance

Practical support bulletin: May 2023

Amy Walton, small charity support manager, shares resources, free events, support and information on the big issues affecting small charities.

  • Financial management
  • Funding and income
  • Responding to crises

Raise your voice: Help NCVO and ACEVO develop a manifesto

Share your experiences and views with decision makers ahead of the next general election

  • Government and politics

Exploring new routes into charity employment for over 50s

New Charity Interns project will be hosted by NCVO and offer paid internships to people aged over 50

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Inside NCVO

Impact round-up: Spring 2023

Evaluation consultant Lucy Lernelius takes a deep dive into measuring the impact of volunteering

  • Impact and evaluation

Volunteers’ Week 2023: Building on the legacy of The Big Help Out

Director of strategic communications and insight, Saskia Konynenburg, shares ways to get involved in Volunteers' Week 2023

  • Involving volunteers

Volunteers’ Week 2023: Making volunteering accessible with the Alternative Futures Group

How to make volunteering accessible for people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions

  • Equity, diversity and inclusion

Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of your team

Familiarise yourself with the early signs of mental health problems and learn how to create a supportive working environment

  • Employing and managing staff

Looking after your own mental health and wellbeing

How to support your own mental health and wellbeing at work or while volunteering

  • Employing and managing staff

Identifying and managing a mental health problem

Learn how to recognise if you’re experiencing a mental health problem and where to go for help

  • Employing and managing staff

Flexible working

Understand your responsibilities around flexible working and learn how to build a flexible working culture

  • Employing and managing staff

Disciplinary matters

Learn about your responsibilities when handling matters of misconduct

  • Employing and managing staff

Handling grievances

How to handle grievances in your organisation

  • Employing and managing staff

Whistleblowing

What to do in the event of whistleblowing at your organisation

  • Employing and managing staff

Ending employment well

Guidance on your responsibilities when you end an employee’s contract, or when staff resign or retire

  • Employing and managing staff

Five steps to effective change management

A guide to help your charity or voluntary organisation navigate and implement change

  • Employing and managing staff

Developing a change management plan

Guidance to help you develop change management plans

  • Employing and managing staff

Trust fundraising in a challenging climate: Over to you

We know that increased competition for funding, shifting priorities among funders, and economic uncertainty are making trust fundraising more challenging for charities. It’s more important than ever to understand the evolving funding landscape and adapt your approach. This free event is an opportunity to network with other NCVO members in facilitated discussions. Share experiences and challenges, work through solutions together, develop new relationships and learn from your peers.

Theory of change for strategic planning and evaluation (1 day)

Learn how to create your own theory of change and narrative. This course will challenge you to think critically about what you're doing and why

Charity finance skills (1 day)

This course will help people with little or no financial background to feel confident in managing day-to-day charity finance

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

This course will help you implement structures and processes to support trustees, and ensure systems are aligned with your organisation’s purpose and objectives

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in charity governance (2 x 0.5 days)

This course has been created by The Social Justice Collective to help you understand, address and embed equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into your governance practice

NCVO member welcome and refresher session: July 2025

Being an NCVO member means being part of a community. Whether you've just joined us, or you're renewing your membership and need a refresher, join this session to meet and network with other members online

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

This course will give trustees an overview and understanding of charity governance, regulation and best practice

All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Charities and Volunteering

A chance to hear from regulators about their plans for the voluntary sector.

Managing conflict and ending volunteering well (0.5 day)

This course will help you to manage conflict and problem solve with your volunteers, and navigate the process of ending volunteering well.

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Learn how to create an evaluation plan to better understand and demonstrate the difference your work makes