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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

Reasons and ways to support the nationwide campaign to get more people volunteering

The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary

Involving volunteers

The latest charity governance news, resources and dates for your diary

Governance

A manifesto for the voluntary sector ahead of the 2024 general election

Government and politics

Government and politics

Resources, events and information on the big issues affecting small charities

Digital and technology
Business planning and strategy
Funding and income

Our latest update on what’s happening in Westminster and how it might impact charities

Government and politics

The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary

Involving volunteers

This month sees the launch of a consultation on the Charity Governance Code and new charity chair research

Governance

Government and politics

Digital and technology

A more detailed approach to cyber risk management for your charity, organisation or community group

How to keep on top of your data protection responsibilities

Digital and technology

Digital and technology

Use this page to make sure you’re meeting your data protection responsibilities.

Digital and technology

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

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

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

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

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

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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Charity finance skills (1 day)

Authentic leadership (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

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)

Introduction to EDI in charities (2 x 0.5 days)

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

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