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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

We launched a new campaign in the summer of 2023 to help trustees and charity leaders consider the environmental impact of their charities’ investments

Campaigning

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

Funding and income
Governance
Cost of living

Our chief executive Sarah Vibert celebrates the start of Trustees' Week and shares our plans

Governance

Our policy and public affairs manager, Chris Walker, summarises the announcements from the King's Speech likely to impact our sector

Government and politics

Explore why diversity is a key area of reflection for your trustee board and what needs to happen to make a board truly diverse

Equity, diversity and inclusion
Governance

Read our open letter calling on the chancellor to ensure charities can continue providing essential services for communities

Funding and income
Cost of living

Why the government must act to cover the true cost of charities delivering public services

Cost of living
Funding and income

An update on what's happening in Westminster. Find out what the King’s Speech and government reshuffle means for charities

Government and politics

The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary

Involving volunteers

Lessons from Trustees’ Week 2023 and upcoming dates for your diary

Governance

View what some monitoring and evaluation frameworks look like for different organisations

Impact and evaluation

Learn about which evaluation method will be best for the type of evaluation work you're doing

Impact and evaluation

Find out about the process of choosing evaluation methods, and what some of those common evaluation methods are

Impact and evaluation

Learn about what types of interviews there are and what to consider when running interviews

Impact and evaluation

Learn about how to plan for and run focus groups

Impact and evaluation

Learn about the basics of questionnaire design

Impact and evaluation

Learn about different creative data collection methods and when they can be used

Impact and evaluation

Learn what secondary data is and how to find it

Impact and evaluation

Learn about how to generate evaluation findings and to report clearly in an appropriate format

Impact and evaluation

Learn about how to analyse quantitative data

Impact and evaluation

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

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Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Strategic leadership (1 day)

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 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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