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Access our guidance to help you decide if you should set up a new charity, voluntary organisation or community group

Setting up

What you need to consider when choosing your legal structure and the main characteristics of different legal structures

Setting up

Find out what charity status is and if you need to register as a charity

Setting up

Find out about social enterprises and their associated legal structures

Setting up

Find out what information should be included in your charity's governing document

Setting up

Guidance and tools to help you run your charity or voluntary organisation

Employing and managing staff
Setting up
Closing down

Practical guidance to help you recruit, manage and develop paid members of staff, including a useful introduction to employment law

Employing and managing staff

Familiarise yourself with the essential aspects of employing paid members of staff

Employing and managing staff

Understand your core legal responsibilities to your employees

Employing and managing staff

A short summary of your general legal obligations to paid members of staff

Employing and managing staff

Key insights about the state of the voluntary sector from our Civil Society Almanac 2022

Equity, diversity and inclusion
Responding to crises
Funding and income

Involving volunteers

Today we publish our annual report and financial accounts for the year ending 31 March 2022.

Governance
Membership
Inside NCVO

Two new directors join NCVO as organisation announces leadership team

Inside NCVO

Governance
Safeguarding

In this edition, Sandy Chidley, senior consultant, spotlights opportunities in impact and evaluation and shares useful evaluation resources and training opportunities

Impact and evaluation

How NCVO's independent governance review is helping us live up to our values and the Charity Governance Code we helped create

Governance
Inside NCVO

Governance

Sarah Vibert, NCVO CEO, responds to the Autumn Statement

Government and politics
Responding to crises

Highlights from our 2022 annual general meeting

Inside NCVO

Information on the types of charity mergers and the different reasons for merging

Collaboration

This page highlights key questions to think about before making the decision to merge

Collaboration

Actions to ensure a planned merger is in the best interests of your organisations and beneficiaries

Collaboration

Things to consider in the run-up to a formal merger

Collaboration

Planning the process with stakeholders and making sure you are clear about the role of your organisation’s regulator is key

Collaboration

What to consider once your merger has completed

Collaboration

A guide to implementing local Compact agreements between voluntary organisations and local authorities, health services, and government departments

Collaboration

How to involve people who use services in the design and delivery of services

Collaboration

What to consider when setting up a joint working agreement

Collaboration

A checklist to help you develop a joint working agreement

Learn Practical tips to ensure you are successful in your funding bid applications.

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

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

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

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

Join us for an essential webinar on creating and embedding effective risk assessments to protect your volunteers and those they support

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 course will revisit the core financial duties of a charity trustee and explore what it means to practice good financial governance

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

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Successful funding applications (0.5 day)

Mentoring and coaching skills (0.5 days)

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

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Strategic leadership (1 day)

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

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