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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

Governance
Leadership

Campaigning
Government and politics

Government and politics
Funding and income

Many charities want to evaluate their impact but lack time or confidence. This blog shares how we support practical, sustainable approaches to self-evaluation.

Business planning and strategy
Impact and evaluation

NCVO announces the appointment of Kate Lee OBE as its new chief executive, joining at a crucial moment for the voluntary sector.

Leadership
Governance

A statement from Kate Lee OBE, our chief executive, on the recent attacks in Manchester.

Responding to crises

We know from speaking to our members about the increased need for sector support and solidarity in times of division and racial hatred.

Responding to crises

Members came together for our 2025 AGM to reflect on the past year, hear from our leadership team, and welcome our new treasurer and chief executive.

Governance
Inside NCVO

A refreshed Charity Governance Code gives clearer guidance for charity boards on leadership, decision making and inclusion.

Equity, diversity and inclusion
Governance

Our latest Governance in Focus report reveals that charity boards are improving how they govern but still have work to do on inclusion and culture.

Equity, diversity and inclusion
Governance

Incorporating conflicts of interest into your financial procedures manual

Governance

A basic building block of internal control

Governance

Putting together a properly costed plan, and then using it to monitor progress

Governance

The Charity Commission expects organisations to know that their money is coming from somewhere reputable. This guidance explains what you can take.

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's control on expenditure manual templates

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - investment and borrowing section

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - controls on financial assets

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - human resources

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - controls on physical assets

Governance

Downloadable financial procedures manual templates for charities and voluntary organisations.

This one-day training course provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of safeguarding leads in charities in England

This course will take you through the essentials of lawful data processing for charities and help improve your compliance with the law

Join us for a discussion on the future of partnership working between local government and civil society.

This course will give trustees an overview and understanding of charity governance, regulation and best practice

This course will help you implement structures and processes to support trustees, and ensure systems are aligned with your organisation’s purpose and objectives

Learn how to create an evaluation plan to better understand and demonstrate the difference your work makes

This course will introduce processes and tools to help ensure that decision-making is responsive to your environment and focused on the most important issues affecting your organisation

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

Learn how to create your own theory of change and narrative. This course will challenge you to think critically about what you're doing and why

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

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Designated safeguarding leads in charities (1 day)

Data protection essentials (2 x 0.5 days)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Theory of change for strategic planning and evaluation (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

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