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
Access our guidance to help you decide if you should set up a new charity, voluntary organisation or community group
What you need to consider when choosing your legal structure and the main characteristics of different legal structures
Find out what charity status is and if you need to register as a charity
Find out about social enterprises and their associated legal structures
Find out what information should be included in your charity's governing document
Guidance and tools to help you run your charity or voluntary organisation
Practical guidance to help you recruit, manage and develop paid members of staff, including a useful introduction to employment law
Familiarise yourself with the essential aspects of employing paid members of staff
Reasons and ways to support the nationwide campaign to get more people volunteering
The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary
The latest charity governance news, resources and dates for your diary
A manifesto for the voluntary sector ahead of the 2024 general election
Resources, events and information on the big issues affecting small charities
Our latest update on what’s happening in Westminster and how it might impact charities
The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary
This month sees the launch of a consultation on the Charity Governance Code and new charity chair research
View what some monitoring and evaluation frameworks look like for different organisations
Learn about which evaluation method will be best for the type of evaluation work you're doing
Find out about the process of choosing evaluation methods, and what some of those common evaluation methods are
Learn about what types of interviews there are and what to consider when running interviews
Learn about how to plan for and run focus groups
Learn about the basics of questionnaire design
Learn about different creative data collection methods and when they can be used
Learn what secondary data is and how to find it
Learn about how to generate evaluation findings and to report clearly in an appropriate format
Learn about how to analyse quantitative data