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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

Employing and managing staff
Equity, diversity and inclusion

Coronavirus
Responding to crises
Government and politics

Government and politics
Involving volunteers

Government and politics
Involving volunteers

Government and politics

Equity, diversity and inclusion
Governance

Employing and managing staff
Collaboration

Employing and managing staff
Collaboration

Funding and income
Coronavirus
Responding to crises

Equity, diversity and inclusion
Involving volunteers

Use this section to select the right tools to help you understand your landscape and conditions.

Business planning and strategy

A guide to help your organisation with your SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis

A guide to help organisations consider how the world is changing

A guide for your organisation to look at the priorities and impact of other organisations in your area of work

Find out about how to select the right tools to help you make good decisions

Business planning and strategy

A guide to help your organisation explore it's activities to assess the extent to which each contributes to value and surplus

Use this tool to help you identify the forces working for and against a particular option

Use this tool to help your organisation explore tradeoffs

Learn about what business planning is in your organisation's context

Business planning and strategy

Find out about how to write your business plan for your organisation

Business planning and strategy

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

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

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

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.

Trustees play an important role in making sure charities are well-managed and can achieve their aims. This accessible, interactive trustee eLearning course lets you study in your own time and at your own pace so you can fit around your schedule and priorities.

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Help and guidance

Setting up

Deciding to set up a new charitable organisation

Choosing your legal structure

Understanding charity status and registration

Understanding social enterprise

A charity's governing document: What it should include

Running a charity

Employing and managing staff

Time to flex: Embracing flexible working

The Road Ahead 2022

UK Civil Society Almanac 2021

Levelling up: The role of charities and volunteering

Charities Bill: Lords Second Reading

Where power lies: How lived experience is engaged in voluntary sector governance and decision-making

Rebalancing the Relationship: Final report

Rebalancing the relationship: emerging findings and draft recommendations

The Road Ahead 2021

Time Well Spent: Diversity and volunteering

Gathering knowledge to assess your situation

SWOT

PESTLE

Other players

Deciding what you will do and how

Dual bottom line analysis

Forcefield analysis

Even over statements

What is business planning?

Writing your business plan

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

Advanced project management (1 day)

eLearning: Roles and duties of trustees

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Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

Advanced project management (1 day)

eLearning: Roles and duties of trustees

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