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Small charity helpdesk

Ask our practical support team any question about the setting up or running of your charity or voluntary organisation.

Small charities advisory panel

The small charities advisory panel champions the voices and experiences of small charities

Events

Our wide range of events give you the opportunity to connect, collaborate, learn and share

Consultancy and mentoring

We have the consultancy and mentoring expertise you need in evaluation, governance, strategy and volunteering

Why choose NCVO

Find out about what we offer, our experience and why we’re a trusted name in the charity and impact sector.

Who we work with

Find out about some of our previous consultancy and mentoring work, and what our clients found useful.

Governance and trusteeship

How our consultancy team can help you understand and implement effective governance

Time to flex: Embracing flexible working

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Equity, diversity and inclusion

The Road Ahead 2022

  • Coronavirus
  • Responding to crises
  • Government and politics

UK Civil Society Almanac 2021

  • Government and politics
  • Involving volunteers

Levelling up: The role of charities and volunteering

  • Government and politics
  • Involving volunteers

Charities Bill: Lords Second Reading

  • Government and politics

Where power lies: How lived experience is engaged in voluntary sector governance and decision-making

  • Equity, diversity and inclusion
  • Governance

Rebalancing the Relationship: Final report

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Collaboration

Rebalancing the relationship: emerging findings and draft recommendations

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Collaboration

The Road Ahead 2021

  • Funding and income
  • Coronavirus
  • Responding to crises

Time Well Spent: Diversity and volunteering

  • Equity, diversity and inclusion
  • Involving volunteers

Handling money

Guidance on handling money while fundraising

  • Safeguarding

Digital skills in your organisation or charity

Use this series of pages to take control of the digital skills within your organisation

What digital skills do charities need?

This page covers the range of digital skills, when they are useful, and how to check for basic and essential skills.

  • Digital and technology

Understanding the digital skills you have

Use this page to understand which digital skills your organisation needs to work on first. And how to find out about digital skills among staff, volunteers and other colleagues.

  • Digital and technology

Closing your charity’s digital skills gap

There are plenty of resources out there to help grow digital skills, whatever your budget.

  • Digital and technology

10 tips for running a digital skills programme

Use these 10 tips to make running a digital skills programme feel manageable. It will help you create a programme that’s engaging and inclusive.

  • Digital and technology

How to carry out a digital skills survey

Run a survey to measure your charity, organisation or community group's level of digital skill

  • Digital and technology

Convincing senior leaders and trustees to get involved in digital change

Convince your charity, organisation or community group's leaders to support digital change

Tackling barriers to digital change for staff and volunteers

Help your organisation's staff and volunteers to engage with digital change

  • Digital and technology

Finding software discounts safely

Find out about charity software discounts to help your organisation use technology

  • Digital and technology

APPG on Charities and Volunteering: local partnership working

Join us for a discussion on the future of partnership working between local government and civil society.

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

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

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

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

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

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

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

All voluntary organisations have a duty to keep the people they work with safe from harm. This course introduces the basics of safeguarding within a charity context in England and highlights effective safeguarding practice

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

Special volunteering network meeting: Keep volunteering voluntary

A network open to all NCVO members working within the volunteering ecosystem. Have your say on the government's consultation on making volunteering a tool in its immigration proposals.

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

This course provides an introduction to the key principles of good volunteer management and how to apply them in your organisation