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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

Understand your core legal responsibilities to your employees

Employing and managing staff

Involving volunteers
Coronavirus

Read our latest round-up for trustees and governance professionals, with useful sector updates, training courses and written guidance.

Governance

In this edition, Sandy Chidley, senior consultant, spotlights opportunities in impact and evaluation and shares useful evaluation resources and training opportunities

Impact and evaluation

Our survey of more than 10,000 people provides the most detailed analysis of volunteering for a decade

Digital and technology
Involving volunteers

Building on existing work on corporate volunteering, this report looks at employer-supported volunteering through the eyes of the volunteer

Employing and managing staff
Involving volunteers

This round-up will help you to stay informed about our influencing work, and any government policy and funding announcements. For news related to what’s happening in parliament, see our regular inside track round-up.

Government and politics

Governance consultant Sally Stephens shares updates on the Charities Act and the Charity Governance Code, along with some exciting training opportunities for trustees

Governance

We explain what dormant assets are, how they could support communities and how you can help make that happen.

Law and regulation

Government and politics
Responding to crises

Voluntary sector partners joint statement on the cost of living crisis

Government and politics
Responding to crises

Digital and technology

Use this page to help you work out if your website needs replacing and how to go about doing it

Digital and technology

Use this page for information on building your own website or getting someone to help.

Digital and technology

Understand eLearning and decide if you need a learning management system

How to move your charity, organisation or community group's face-to-face training online

Find out about guides to digital safeguarding and how to keep people safe in everything you do online

Understand how your organisation can use these approaches and where to learn more

Key highlights from the Charity Commission's guidance on social media for charities.

Digital and technology

How to better include the people you work with and for in your organisation's digital work

Digital and technology

Find out if you're doing everything you should be to make sure your websites and digital services are accessible

Digital and technology

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

This course introduces the key principles of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and how to apply them to 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

This course will revisit the core financial duties of a charity trustee and explore what it means to practice good financial governance

A network open to all NCVO members working within the volunteering ecosystem. Join us to discuss your volunteering challenges and work with the group to find solutions.

Get an introduction to data collection methods and practical guidance for evaluating your work

Gain a clear understanding of the UK political system, the points of access and influence. Get top tips about what works and what to avoid.

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

This practical one-day course for aspiring and existing charity leaders will elevate your strategic leadership skills, so you can create lasting impact for your organisations and the communities you serve.

This practical course is specifically tailored to the voluntary sector. It’s designed to give you all the principles and practical tools you need to plan, deliver and evaluate your project successfully

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Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

Introduction to EDI in charities (2 x 0.5 days)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Influencing parliament and government (2 x 0.5 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Strategic leadership (1 day)

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

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