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

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

This course will equip managers in the voluntary sector with the skills and techniques they need to effectively manage paid members of staff

This course provides an introduction to the key differences between mentoring and coaching. You’ll learn how to use both skills effectively to develop and support staff, volunteers and clients

This practical one-day course for aspiring and existing charity leaders will strengthen your understanding of authentic leadership, so you can lead with integrity and impact

This practical one-day course for aspiring and existing charity leaders will elevate your strategic leadership skills, so you can create lasting impact for your organisations and the communities you serve.

This introductory course explains the key trustee responsibilities for safeguarding, following guidance from the Charity Commission

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

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

This course will give you an overview of how to build a simple finance strategy. We’ll introduce tools to help you build the financial resilience of your charity

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Government and politics
Funding and income

Many charities want to evaluate their impact but lack time or confidence. This blog shares how we support practical, sustainable approaches to self-evaluation.

Business planning and strategy
Impact and evaluation

NCVO announces the appointment of Kate Lee OBE as its new chief executive, joining at a crucial moment for the voluntary sector.

Leadership
Governance

A statement from Kate Lee OBE, our chief executive, on the recent attacks in Manchester.

Responding to crises

We know from speaking to our members about the increased need for sector support and solidarity in times of division and racial hatred.

Responding to crises

Members came together for our 2025 AGM to reflect on the past year, hear from our leadership team, and welcome our new treasurer and chief executive.

Governance
Inside NCVO

A refreshed Charity Governance Code gives clearer guidance for charity boards on leadership, decision making and inclusion.

Equity, diversity and inclusion
Governance

Learn about what budgets and cashflow forecasts are and how to write a budget

Financial management

Learn about who to involve in writing your budget, how to assess it and dealing with uncertainty

Financial management

Learn about how to build a cashflow forecast and how the cashflow process works

Financial management

Guidance on budgeting for projects and recovering costs

Financial management

Learn about direct costs and support costs for single and multiple projects

Financial management

Learn about what cost allocation and apportionment mean and how it works in practice

Financial management

Learn about what full cost recovery means and what the limitations are

Financial management

How to prepare annual accounts and a Trustees’ Annual Report and make them available on request

Financial management

Creating financial information that helps managers and trustees

Financial management

What to consider when deciding on investments

Financial management

This course provides an introduction to the key differences between mentoring and coaching. You’ll learn how to use both skills effectively to develop and support staff, volunteers and clients

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

Discover what’s shaping charity governance in 2025, benchmark best practice and gain practical ideas to strengthen inclusion, leadership and alignment.

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

Through a blend of theoretical frameworks and practical application, you'll learn how to build a fundraising function that is not only effective today but sustainable and resilient for years to come.

Explore refreshed Charity Governance Code guidance and reflect on how trustee behaviours shape decision-making, board culture and effectiveness.

Join us to get a basic understanding of AI and tools that can support you in your trustee role.

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

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

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

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Managing conflict and ending volunteering well (0.5 day)

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

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Mentoring and coaching skills (0.5 days)

Authentic leadership (1 day)

Strategic leadership (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Charity finance strategy (1 day)

Saskia Konynenburg appointed Interim Chief Executive of NCVO

Civil Society Covenant launched to reset partnership with government

Help shape new public procurement rules for charities

How we help charities build confidence in evaluation

Kate Lee OBE appointed new chief executive

Manchester attacks: a statement

Support for charities in divided times

New treasurer and trustee confirmed at 2025 AGM

Refreshed Charity Governance Code strengthens focus on behaviours and inclusion

Defining budgets and cashflow forecasts and writing a budget

Budgeting: Who to involve, how to assess it and dealing with uncertainty

Building a cashflow forecast and understanding the cashflow process

Project budgeting and full cost recovery

Direct costs and support costs

Cost allocation and apportionment

Full cost recovery

External reporting

Management accounts

Investment

Mentoring and coaching skills (0.5 days)

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

Governance trends 2025: what’s changing and why it matters

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

Building a sustainable and resilient fundraising strategy (1 day)

Trustees Week 2025: Board behaviours workshop

Trustees Week 2025: AI essentials

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

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Managing conflict and ending volunteering well (0.5 day)

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

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Mentoring and coaching skills (0.5 days)

Authentic leadership (1 day)

Strategic leadership (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Charity finance strategy (1 day)

Mentoring and coaching skills (0.5 days)

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

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

Building a sustainable and resilient fundraising strategy (1 day)

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

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