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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

Reasons and ways to support the nationwide campaign to get more people volunteering

The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary

Involving volunteers

The latest charity governance news, resources and dates for your diary

Governance

A manifesto for the voluntary sector ahead of the 2024 general election

Government and politics

Government and politics

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

Digital and technology
Business planning and strategy
Funding and income

Our latest update on what’s happening in Westminster and how it might impact charities

Government and politics

The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary

Involving volunteers

This month sees the launch of a consultation on the Charity Governance Code and new charity chair research

Governance

Government and politics

Guidance around using technology responsibly and ethically in your organisation

Digital and technology

Use this page to understand why you need a plan to manage ethical risks when you use technology

Digital and technology

Use this page to explore imagined-from-life examples which look at the ethical challenges involved in technology and what can go wrong

Digital and technology

How to reduce technology-based risk within your organisations

Digital and technology

The digital maturity matrix is a simple tool to assess your current strengths and weaknesses, and helps you see what you need to do next to improve.

Understanding artificial intelligence (AI) and how small charities can use it to improve their work.

Digital and technology

Tackle one of the biggest obstacles we face when creating digital content, software and services

Use this page to learn about how to plan user research. The first step in planning any successful digital project is to explore what people need. Here are some methods to help you do that well.

Digital and technology

Use this page to ask the right kind of questions when you're planning user research interviews

Digital and technology

Digital and technology

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.

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

This course provides an introduction to the key principles of good volunteer management and how to apply them in your organisation

This advanced course is specifically for data protection leads or officers in charitable organisations.

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

Our Governance Forum is a space for charity governance professionals and those who support good governance to come together, learn and network

Learn practical tools and techniques to increase your capability, confidence and impact when seeking to influence others – both within and outside your organisation

This course will give you an overview of how to build a simple finance strategy. We’ll introduce tools to help you build the financial resilience of your charity

This essentials course is suitable for anyone within an organisation that handles the personal data of staff, service users, beneficiaries, volunteers, customers, members or supporters, and needs to know the basics of data protection for voluntary organisations.

This introductory course explains the key trustee responsibilities for safeguarding, following guidance from the Charity Commission

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Advanced project management (1 day)

Leading change and transformation (2 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Boost your personal influence and impact (0.5 day)

Charity finance strategy (1 day)

Data protection essentials (2 x 0.5 days)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

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