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Communicating with your team

Tips to help you communicate effectively with your team

  • Employing and managing staff

Building a positive team culture

Steps you can take to build a positive team culture

  • Employing and managing staff

Belbin's team roles: Understanding your team

Guidance to help you understand the balance of skills, abilities and aspirations in your team, so you can harness them effectively.

  • Employing and managing staff

Mental health and wellbeing

How to support mental health and wellbeing at work - for yourself and your team

  • Employing and managing staff

Mental health and wellbeing: employers' responsibilities

Build your understanding of an employers' responsibilities for mental health and wellbeing

  • Employing and managing staff

Managing stress in your organisation

Learn how to recognise whether stress is an issue for your organisation, and get tips on how to manage it

  • Employing and managing staff

Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of your team

Familiarise yourself with the early signs of mental health problems and learn how to create a supportive working environment

  • Employing and managing staff

Looking after your own mental health and wellbeing

How to support your own mental health and wellbeing at work or while volunteering

  • Employing and managing staff

Identifying and managing a mental health problem

Learn how to recognise if you’re experiencing a mental health problem and where to go for help

  • Employing and managing staff

Flexible working

Understand your responsibilities around flexible working and learn how to build a flexible working culture

  • Employing and managing staff

The inside track: January 2022

  • Government and politics

Volunteers' Week 2022: a time to say thanks!

  • Involving volunteers

Time well spent: impact of covid-19 on the volunteer experience

  • Coronavirus
  • Involving volunteers
  • Responding to crises

Volunteering round-up: July 2022

  • Involving volunteers

NCVO appoints Sarah Vibert as Director of Policy and Volunteering

  • Inside NCVO

Public sector volunteers less satisfied

  • Involving volunteers

Charities may find more political space to effect change in 2020, says NCVO

  • Government and politics

NCVO begins search for new chair of trustees

  • Inside NCVO

Charities' 'competitive behaviours' in contracting negatively impacting sector

  • Impact and evaluation

Two new trustees appointed to NCVO board

  • Inside NCVO

Safeguarding day-to-day

Understand how to make safeguarding part of your everyday activities and review what you are doing

  • Safeguarding

Getting people involved

Safeguarding works best when everyone is involved. Find out how to make that happen

  • Safeguarding

Choosing staff, volunteers and trustees

When to take checks and other recruitment steps that help keep people safe

  • Safeguarding

Policies and procedures

Find out about the most important documents needed for good safeguarding

  • Safeguarding

Roles and responsibilities

Making sure people take on the right roles and responsibilities to keep people safe

  • Safeguarding

Recognise, respond and report

Preparing staff and volunteers so they’re ready to deal with problems when they happen

  • Safeguarding

Understanding the risks

Identifying the types of harm that people you work with might experience

  • Safeguarding

Safeguarding training

Find training designed for charities, voluntary organisations and community groups

  • Safeguarding

Local and national support

Find organisations that can help you plan and review your safeguarding work

  • Safeguarding

About this guide

Find out who this guide is for and how to use it

  • Safeguarding

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Learn how to create an evaluation plan to better understand and demonstrate the difference your work makes

Mentoring and coaching skills (0.5 days)

This course provides an introduction to the key differences between mentoring and coaching. You’ll learn how to use both skills effectively to develop and support staff, volunteers and clients

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

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

Charity finance skills (1 day)

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

Authentic leadership (1 day)

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

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

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

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

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

Member forum: The Civil Society Covenant

Learn more about the Civil Society Covenant, and the steps to implement it, in this free event.

Managing conflict and ending volunteering well (0.5 day)

This course will help you to manage conflict and problem solve with your volunteers, and navigate the process of ending volunteering well.

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

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