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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

Coronavirus

At a time of crisis, charities want and need to be able to give their all to supporting people who need it most. They cannot do that if they have to suspend their work or close altogether.

Coronavirus

Volunteering rates have remained stable over the last few years. In 2018/19, 22% of people regularly volunteered with a group, club or organisation. While the pandemic is unlikely to influence the overall numbers of people volunteering in the UK, we will

Involving volunteers
Coronavirus

Inside NCVO

Business planning and strategy

Involving volunteers

Inside NCVO

Coronavirus

Involving volunteers

Equity, diversity and inclusion

How trustees can work with their organisation's CEO to ensure good safeguarding

Safeguarding

The responsibilities of a designated safeguarding lead and how they can ensure good practice

Safeguarding

What are the roles and responsibilities of a designated safeguarding lead?

Safeguarding

A guide to safeguarding leads and who is best suited to the role

Safeguarding

Guidance on what skills a designated safeguarding lead needs

Safeguarding

Find out more about what training a designated safeguarding lead can undertake

Safeguarding

Supervision can mean different things to different people but essentially it’s an activity that gives you an opportunity to reflect upon your practice

Safeguarding

A collection of safeguarding resources for designated safeguarding leads

Safeguarding

Creating a safeguarding plan to ensure policies and procedures are being followed

Safeguarding

Guidance on responding to concerns around safeguarding

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

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

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 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

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Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Mentoring and coaching skills (0.5 days)

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

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Authentic leadership (1 day)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Managing conflict and ending volunteering well (0.5 day)

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

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