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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

Recent governance news, resources, research, events and more

Governance

Find out if your organisation is eligible for new funding up to £75,000

Funding and income
Responding to crises

Learn how new banking rules will affect your charity or voluntary organisation

Financial management

The latest news, events and opportunities for people managing or supporting volunteers

Involving volunteers

A round-up of the latest guidance from the Charity Commission, recent governance news and upcoming training and events

Governance

Senior consultant, Sandy Chidley, runs through some recent work on ethical evaluation and shares useful evaluation events and training opportunities

Impact and evaluation

A round-up of what’s happening in Westminster that might impact charities. This month sees a Labour reshuffle, an update on new APPG rules, and a look ahead to party conferences

Government and politics

The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary

Involving volunteers

Resources, free events, support and guidance on the big issues affecting small charities

Financial management
Funding and income
Responding to crises

An update on our influencing work, government policy and funding announcements

Government and politics
Funding and income

All trustees must take responsibility for decisions that benefit their charity

Governance

All trustees are responsible for shaping the culture of their board and charity

Governance

Trustees must make sure their charity’s money is safe and used properly

Governance

Trustees should think carefully about how to secure income for their charity

Governance

Seven steps to help trustees manage risk in their charity

Governance
Risk

Trustees need to make sure their charity follows employment law and has clear volunteer management processes

Governance

Guidance on Charity Commission, Companies House and serious incident reporting

Governance

Trustees should help oversee and develop their charity’s strategy

Governance

Guidance on how to find and welcome new charity trustees

Governance

Learn about the reasons to remove a trustee and the process to go through

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

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

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 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.

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

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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Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Leading change and transformation (2 days)

Advanced project management (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

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