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
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
Use this page to help you work out if your website needs replacing and how to go about doing it
Use this page for information on building your own website or getting someone to help.
Understand eLearning and decide if you need a learning management system
How to move your charity, organisation or community group's face-to-face training online
Find out about guides to digital safeguarding and how to keep people safe in everything you do online
Understand how your organisation can use these approaches and where to learn more
Key highlights from the Charity Commission's guidance on social media for charities.
How to better include the people you work with and for in your organisation's digital work
Find out if you're doing everything you should be to make sure your websites and digital services are accessible