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Our help and guidance content includes step-by-step guides, downloadable templates and interactive tools to help you run your voluntary organisation

Learn about the practical steps you need to take to set up your own organisation

Setting up

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

Funding and income
Government and politics

Government and politics

Business planning and strategy

Impact and evaluation

Practical ways to take part in Small Charity Week – from sharing your story to getting free training, funding support and expert advice.

Cost of living
Campaigning

Collaboration
Funding and income

A new report by NCVO and ACEVO sets out six key recommendations to make the Civil Society Covenant meaningful, based on feedback from over 1,000 organisations.

Campaigning
Government and politics

Explore how the 2025 Spending Review affects charities – including changes to welfare, school meals, NICs and local government funding.

Funding and income
Government and politics

What is a Trustee and how do you appoint them?

Governance

What is the role of a Trustee?

Governance

Find out about who your charities members are and what decisions they make

Governance

Learn about the rules around decision-making and how to go about the process of making decisions effectively

Governance

Learn about the different types of meetings and how you can work to make them effective

Governance

Learn about what the structure of the board looks like and what to consider when reviewing

Governance

Learn about what conflicts of interest are and how to work through them

Governance

Learn about what matters are reserved for the board, in what situations you can delegate and to who

Governance

Learn about how to navigate strategic and operational problems and where the responsibility is located

Governance

Learn more about the key areas boards and trustees are responsible for

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

Get an introduction to data collection methods and practical guidance for evaluating your work

This course will develop your skills and help you use a marketing approach to recruit volunteers

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

This practical two-day course for aspiring and existing charity leaders will teach you how to adapt to an ever-changing environment. Learn how to successfully deliver meaningful change to improve your team or organisation

Are you confident in your general project management skills but looking to strengthen your expertise? This course moves beyond the basics of project management to better understand techniques, activities and principles within a charity context.

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

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

This advanced course is specifically for data protection leads or officers in charitable organisations.

Our Governance Forum is a space for charity governance professionals and those who support good governance to come together, learn and network

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Small Charity Week

Help and guidance

Setting up

Deciding to set up a new charitable organisation

Choosing your legal structure

Understanding charity status and registration

Understanding social enterprise

A charity's governing document: What it should include

Running a charity

Employing and managing staff

Spring Statement 2025: what it means for charities

The Road Ahead 2025

The importance of project management in the voluntary sector

Power of Small project report

The Power of Small: championing small organisations across the sector

How your charity can make the most of Small Charity Week

194 small charities selected for Small Charity Week match funding campaign

Civil society’s priorities for the new Covenant

What Spending Review 2025 means for charities

What is a trustee?

Trustee roles

Who are your members?

Making good decisions as a board

Running good meetings

Reviewing the structure of your board

Managing conflicts of interests

Delegating decisions to committees and employees

Considering strategic and operational problems as a board

Helping your board meet their responsibilities

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

Leading change and transformation (2 days)

Advanced project management (1 day)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

Governance Forum

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Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

Leading change and transformation (2 days)

Advanced project management (1 day)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

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