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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

Familiarise yourself with the essential aspects of employing paid members of staff

Employing and managing staff

Involving volunteers

Responding to crises
Collaboration
Involving volunteers

Governance
Equity, diversity and inclusion
Inside NCVO

Involving volunteers

Governance
Law and regulation

Funding and income
Impact and evaluation
Responding to crises

Inside NCVO
Collaboration
Involving volunteers

Law and regulation
Government and politics

Responding to crises

Involving volunteers

Useful terms when talking about safeguarding and volunteering

Safeguarding

Useful terms when talking about safeguarding and volunteering

Safeguarding

Useful terms when talking about safeguarding and volunteering

Safeguarding

Useful terms when talking about safeguarding and volunteering

Safeguarding

Useful terms when talking about safeguarding and volunteering

Safeguarding

Useful terms when talking about safeguarding and volunteering

Safeguarding

Useful terms when talking about safeguarding and volunteering

Safeguarding

Useful terms when talking about safeguarding and volunteering

Safeguarding

How to make sure you're giving grants to people who are doing safeguarding well.

Safeguarding

Safeguarding considerations for grantmakers

Safeguarding

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

This course provides an introduction to the key differences between mentoring and coaching. You’ll learn how to use both skills effectively to develop and support staff, volunteers and clients

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

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

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

This practical one-day course for aspiring and existing charity leaders will strengthen your understanding of authentic leadership, so you can lead with integrity and impact

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

Learn more about the Civil Society Covenant, and the steps to implement it, in this free event.

This course will help you to manage conflict and problem solve with your volunteers, and navigate the process of ending volunteering well.

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