Creating a safeguarding plan to ensure policies and procedures are being followed
Key safeguarding questions for trustees to consider
Guidance on the health and safety measures you need to put in place when working with volunteers
Find out about whistleblowing, and the policies your organisation should have in place.
Step by step guidance to help your board consider divestment
Guidance around safeguarding vulnerable clients and volunteers
Safeguarding considerations for grantmakers and grantholders
Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - investment and borrowing section
This round-up will help you to stay informed about our influencing work, and any government policy and funding announcements. For news related to what’s happening in parliament, see our regular inside track round-up.
An update on our influencing work, government policy and funding announcements
An update on our influencing work, government policy and funding announcements
An update on our influencing work, government policy and funding announcements
Latest updates on our influencing work, government policy and funding announcements
A new research briefing published today and authored by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) examines the government’s policy response to volunteering in England, and its impact, during the covid-19 pandemic.
Use this page to learn about how to broadly encourage positive trustee relationships and manage disputes.
Learn about the types of changes you can make to your governing document and the related rules
Guidance on how to find and welcome new charity trustees
All trustees are responsible for shaping the culture of their board and charity
Learn about how to navigate strategic and operational problems and where the responsibility is located
Learn which decisions stay with the board, what you can delegate and to who.
Learn about what conflicts of interest are and how to work through them
Learn about the different types of meetings and how you can work to make them effective
Learn about what governance is and how it applies to charities
What organisations are expected or obliged to do when concerns are raised