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Handling grievances

How to handle grievances in your organisation

  • Employing and managing staff

Whistleblowing

What to do in the event of whistleblowing at your organisation

  • Employing and managing staff

Ending employment well

Guidance on your responsibilities when you end an employee’s contract, or when staff resign or retire

  • Employing and managing staff

Managing change

Guidance to help your charity or voluntary organisation navigate and implement change.

Five steps to effective change management

A guide to help your charity or voluntary organisation navigate and implement change

  • Employing and managing staff

Developing a change management plan

Guidance to help you develop change management plans

  • Employing and managing staff

Communicating change and consulting stakeholders

Guidance to help you communicate change and consult stakeholders

  • Employing and managing staff

Supporting staff and volunteers through change

Guidance to help you support staff and volunteers through change

  • Employing and managing staff

Understanding and managing resistance to change

Guidance to help you understand and manage resistance to change

  • Employing and managing staff

Embedding and evaluating change

Guidance to help you embed and evaluate change

  • Employing and managing staff

Time to flex: Embracing flexible working

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Equity, diversity and inclusion

The Road Ahead 2022

  • Coronavirus
  • Responding to crises
  • Government and politics

UK Civil Society Almanac 2021

  • Government and politics
  • Involving volunteers

Levelling up: The role of charities and volunteering

  • Government and politics
  • Involving volunteers

Charities Bill: Lords Second Reading

  • Government and politics

Where power lies: How lived experience is engaged in voluntary sector governance and decision-making

  • Equity, diversity and inclusion
  • Governance

Rebalancing the Relationship: Final report

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Collaboration

Rebalancing the relationship: emerging findings and draft recommendations

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Collaboration

The Road Ahead 2021

  • Funding and income
  • Coronavirus
  • Responding to crises

Time Well Spent: Diversity and volunteering

  • Equity, diversity and inclusion
  • Involving volunteers

Defining budgets and cashflow forecasts and writing a budget

Learn about what budgets and cashflow forecasts are and how to write a budget

  • Financial management

Budgeting: Who to involve, how to assess it and dealing with uncertainty

Learn about who to involve in writing your budget, how to assess it and dealing with uncertainty

  • Financial management

Building a cashflow forecast and understanding the cashflow process

Learn about how to build a cashflow forecast and how the cashflow process works

  • Financial management

Project budgeting and full cost recovery

Guidance on budgeting for projects and recovering costs

  • Financial management

Direct costs and support costs

Learn about direct costs and support costs for single and multiple projects

  • Financial management

Cost allocation and apportionment

Learn about what cost allocation and apportionment mean and how it works in practice

  • Financial management

Full cost recovery

Learn about what full cost recovery means and what the limitations are

  • Financial management

External reporting

How to prepare annual accounts and a Trustees’ Annual Report and make them available on request

  • Financial management

Management accounts

Creating financial information that helps managers and trustees

  • Financial management

Investment

What to consider when deciding on investments

  • Financial management

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

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

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

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

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

This practical session will build your awareness of different types of reporting and support you to tell a compelling story through your reporting

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

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

Leading change and transformation (2 days)

This practical two-day course for aspiring and existing charity leaders will teach you how to adapt to an ever-changing environment. Learn how to successfully deliver meaningful change to improve your team or organisation

Advanced project management (1 day)

Are you confident in your general project management skills but looking to strengthen your expertise? This course moves beyond the basics of project management to better understand techniques, activities and principles within a charity context.

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

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

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

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

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

This advanced course is specifically for data protection leads or officers in charitable organisations.

Governance Forum

Our Governance Forum is a space for charity governance professionals and those who support good governance to come together, learn and network