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A forum for discussing the issues affecting the voluntary and community sector

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

Governance
Leadership

Campaigning
Government and politics

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 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 practical course is specifically tailored to the voluntary sector. It’s designed to give you all the principles and practical tools you need to plan, deliver and evaluate your project successfully

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

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

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

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

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

This course will introduce processes and tools to help ensure that decision-making is responsive to your environment and focused on the most important issues affecting your organisation

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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Charities and Volunteering (APPG)

Month of Community

Small Charity Week

Help shape the future of NCVO and the charity sector

Strategy Review 2025: get in touch

Help and guidance

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Deciding to set up a new charitable organisation

Choosing your legal structure

Understanding charity status and registration

Saskia Konynenburg appointed Interim Chief Executive of NCVO

Civil Society Covenant launched to reset partnership with government

What is volunteering?

Why involve volunteers?

Writing a volunteering strategy

Equity, diversity and inclusion in volunteering

Writing volunteer role descriptions

Paying volunteer expenses

Coordinating volunteers

Safeguarding and volunteers

Writing a volunteer policy

Getting volunteer insurance

Strategic leadership (1 day)

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

Successful funding applications (0.5 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

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Strategic leadership (1 day)

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

Successful funding applications (0.5 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

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