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Guidance on all aspects of collaboration, from mergers to working with local compacts

Collaboration

An introduction to working with other organisations, including getting started and key stages

Collaboration

Learn about the key stages of collaboration and what they mean for your organisation

Collaboration

Collaborative working, also known as joint or partnership working, covers a variety of ways that two or more organisations can work together

Collaboration

Decide whether collaboration will help you achieve your aims by learning about the potential benefits and risks

Collaboration

A checklist of questions to help you decide whether to work collaboratively on a given project.

Collaboration

Tips to help voluntary organisations collaborate effectively with the right partners

Collaboration

This page explains the different ways that voluntary organisations may collaborate in order to bid for and deliver a commissioned contract

Collaboration

Different ways of working collaboratively with other organisations

Collaboration

Guidance to help you decide whether working in partnership is right for your organisation

Collaboration

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Government and politics

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Practical ways to take part in Small Charity Week – from sharing your story to getting free training, funding support and expert advice.

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Funding and income

A new report by NCVO and ACEVO sets out six key recommendations to make the Civil Society Covenant meaningful, based on feedback from over 1,000 organisations.

Campaigning
Government and politics

Explore how the 2025 Spending Review affects charities – including changes to welfare, school meals, NICs and local government funding.

Funding and income
Government and politics

The steps you should take when shortlisting and interviewing applicants

Employing and managing staff

Guidance on making a provisional offer of employment and conducting checks

Employing and managing staff

How to set up a good induction and probation programme

Employing and managing staff

How to help your team maintain and improve their performance at work

Employing and managing staff

How to set effective objectives and behaviour standards for your team

Employing and managing staff

How to give your team effective feedback

Employing and managing staff

How to develop effective learning and development plans

Employing and managing staff

Guidance to help you motivate and engage your team

Employing and managing staff

Tips to help you plan and run effective one-to-one meetings and appraisals

Employing and managing staff

Guidance to help you address and manage poor performance in the people you manage

Employing and managing staff

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

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.

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

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

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

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 will give you an overview of how to build a simple finance strategy. We’ll introduce tools to help you build the financial resilience of your charity

This essentials course is suitable for anyone within an organisation that handles the personal data of staff, service users, beneficiaries, volunteers, customers, members or supporters, and needs to know the basics of data protection for voluntary organisations.

This introductory course explains the key trustee responsibilities for safeguarding, following guidance from the Charity Commission

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Collaboration

About collaborative working

Key stages of collaboration

What is collaborative working?

Benefits and risks of collaborative working

Should you collaborate?

Top tips for collaboration

The collaboration spectrum

Ways of working collaboratively

Partnerships

Spring Statement 2025: what it means for charities

The Road Ahead 2025

The importance of project management in the voluntary sector

Power of Small project report

The Power of Small: championing small organisations across the sector

How your charity can make the most of Small Charity Week

194 small charities selected for Small Charity Week match funding campaign

Civil society’s priorities for the new Covenant

What Spending Review 2025 means for charities

Shortlisting and interviewing for the role

Offering the job

Induction and probation

Managing performance

Setting objectives and behaviour standards

Giving effective feedback

Supporting learning and development

Motivating and engaging staff

One-to-ones and appraisals

Managing underperformance

Leading change and transformation (2 days)

Advanced project management (1 day)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Governance Forum

Boost your personal influence and impact (0.5 day)

Charity finance strategy (1 day)

Data protection essentials (2 x 0.5 days)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

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Leading change and transformation (2 days)

Advanced project management (1 day)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Boost your personal influence and impact (0.5 day)

Charity finance strategy (1 day)

Data protection essentials (2 x 0.5 days)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

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