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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

Policy and insight manager Sam Mercadante considers the implications of the Autumn Statement for charities

Latest updates on our influencing work, government policy and funding announcements

Financial management
Government and politics
Funding and income

Research exploring the volunteering experiences and perspectives of people from the global majority

Equity, diversity and inclusion
Involving volunteers

The latest resources, events and training to help your organisation with its impact and evaluation

Impact and evaluation

The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary

Involving volunteers

New inclusion and campaigning resources, a chance to help shape investment principles, and dates for your diary

Governance

It is with much love and respect that we pay tribute to our colleague and friend, Michelle Curtis, who passed away unexpectedly in November.

How charities can harness the power of our collective voice in 2024

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

Cost of living
Digital and technology
Involving volunteers

Latest updates on our influencing work, government policy and funding announcements

Funding and income
Government and politics

Learn about the how the process of evaluation works

Impact and evaluation

Understanding the issues experienced by individuals or organisations you want to work with, people you want to influence, or environments you want to affect change in is the starting point for impact planning

Impact and evaluation

Information you need before you write your evaluation brief and what to include once you get started

Impact and evaluation

Learn about how to create an evaluation budget

Impact and evaluation

Impact and evaluation

Learn about the different planning tools you can use to help you find out what difference you want to make

Impact and evaluation

Learn how to create your own evaluation planning triangle

Impact and evaluation

Examples of evaluation planning triangles in different organisations

Impact and evaluation

Learn how to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework and see some examples

Impact and evaluation

Learn about how to create a monitoring and evaluation framework

Impact and evaluation

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

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.

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

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 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

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Charity finance skills (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

Strategic leadership (1 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

Leading change and transformation (2 days)

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