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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

The Employment Rights Bill introduces the biggest changes to UK employment law in decades. Find out when these changes will happen and what you should be doing to get ready.

Membership body announces changes to its executive team following the arrival of new CEO, Kate Lee.

Limited measures announced, but not enough to ease financial strain on charities.

Funding and income
Government and politics

A new report from NCVO explores impact of rise in extremism and social division on the voluntary sector.

Responding to crises
Government and politics

Involving volunteers
Government and politics

The steps you should take when shortlisting and interviewing applicants

Employing and managing staff

Guidance on making a provisional offer of employment and conducting checks

Employing and managing staff

How to set up a good induction and probation programme

Employing and managing staff

How to help your team maintain and improve their performance at work

Employing and managing staff

How to set effective objectives and behaviour standards for your team

Employing and managing staff

How to give your team effective feedback

Employing and managing staff

How to develop effective learning and development plans

Employing and managing staff

Guidance to help you motivate and engage your team

Employing and managing staff

Tips to help you plan and run effective one-to-one meetings and appraisals

Employing and managing staff

Guidance to help you address and manage poor performance in the people you manage

Employing and managing staff

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

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

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

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

A network open to all NCVO members working within the volunteering ecosystem. Have your say on the government's consultation on making volunteering a tool in its immigration proposals.

This course provides an introduction to the key principles of good volunteer management and how to apply them in your organisation

This course will equip managers in the voluntary sector with the skills and techniques they need to effectively manage paid members of staff

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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

Employment Rights Bill: what charities need to know

Updates to NCVO’s executive team

What the Autumn 2025 Budget means for your charity

Charities facing mission-limiting hostility, fear and intimidation

Why the government’s asylum proposals are bad for volunteering

Shortlisting and interviewing for the role

Offering the job

Induction and probation

Managing performance

Setting objectives and behaviour standards

Giving effective feedback

Supporting learning and development

Motivating and engaging staff

One-to-ones and appraisals

Managing underperformance

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

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

Special volunteering network meeting: Keep volunteering voluntary

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

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Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

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

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

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