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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

Once the decision has been made to close, you’ll need to decide who to inform and how to inform them

Key financial steps your need to take when closing your organisation

Your duty of care to staff, volunteers and beneficiaries should be at the top of any closure plans

Closing an organisation will require courage and commitment from an organisation’s leadership

Guidance on refusing donations, communicating with donors, and returning donations

Learn Practical tips to ensure you are successful in your funding bid applications.

A space for charity governance professionals to come together, learn and network

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

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 develop your skills and help you use a marketing approach to recruit volunteers

Learn practical tools and techniques to increase your capability, confidence and impact when seeking to influence others – both within and outside your organisation

This course has been created by The Social Justice Collective to help you understand, address and embed equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into your governance practice

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

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

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

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Successful funding applications (0.5 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Authentic leadership (1 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Boost your personal influence and impact (0.5 day)

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in charity governance (2 x 0.5 days)

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

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