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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

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

Employing and managing staff

Coronavirus
Involving volunteers

Read our latest round-up for trustees and governance professionals, with useful sector updates, training courses and written guidance.

Governance

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

Impact and evaluation

Our survey of more than 10,000 people provides the most detailed analysis of volunteering for a decade

Digital and technology
Involving volunteers

Building on existing work on corporate volunteering, this report looks at employer-supported volunteering through the eyes of the volunteer

Employing and managing staff
Involving volunteers

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.

Government and politics

Governance consultant Sally Stephens shares updates on the Charities Act and the Charity Governance Code, along with some exciting training opportunities for trustees

Governance

We explain what dormant assets are, how they could support communities and how you can help make that happen.

Law and regulation

Government and politics
Responding to crises

Voluntary sector partners joint statement on the cost of living crisis

Government and politics
Responding to crises

Find out what volunteering is and how to get started

Involving volunteers

How volunteers can benefit your organisation and play an important role in your work

Involving volunteers

A volunteer strategy helps secure the support to help your volunteering do more

Involving volunteers

Understand how equity, diversity and inclusion affects volunteers and those they support

Involving volunteers

How to write volunteer role descriptions that show your volunteers' roles and responsibilities

Involving volunteers

It’s good practice to pay back volunteers for expenses they incur while volunteering

Involving volunteers

Understand volunteer coordinator roles and decide how to support your volunteers

Involving volunteers

Help volunteers understand their role in safeguarding and their own right to be safe

Involving volunteers

How a volunteer policy can benefit your organisation and what it should include

Involving volunteers

Understand what insurance your organisation needs if it involves volunteers

Involving volunteers

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

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.

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.

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Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

Strategic leadership (1 day)

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)

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