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Trusted Standard

Trusted Standard helps charities and voluntary organisations improve the quality of their work, and communicate that quality through accreditation

  • Governance
  • Business planning and strategy
  • Impact and evaluation

Understand and communicate your situation

Learn about questions you can ask to understand your financial situation and tips for communicating this to others

  • Cost of living
  • Financial management

Safeguarding in grant applications

How grant makers can contribute to better safeguarding practice

  • Safeguarding

Induction and probation

How to set up a good induction and probation programme

  • Employing and managing staff

Supporting your leadership team and trustees through closure

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

Controls on physical assets

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - controls on physical assets

  • Governance

Governance and trusteeship

How our consultancy team can help you understand and implement effective governance

Banking guidance for charities

Guidance around when a charity or voluntary organisation needs a bank account, and how to choose one and set it up.

  • Financial management

The Road Ahead 2023: Responding to new laws and regulations

In the last of our Road Ahead series, we shine a spotlight on new laws and regulations that may affect you

  • Law and regulation

Tackling barriers to digital change for staff and volunteers

Help your organisation's staff and volunteers to engage with digital change

  • Digital and technology

FSI and NCVO partnership becomes new home of small charities coalition helpdesk

Today the Small Charities Coalition (SCC) announced that the FSI (the Foundation for Social Improvement) and NCVO (National Council for Voluntary Organisations) have come together to secure the SCC Helpdesk and other key services.

  • Collaboration

National service and volunteering: A guide to the Conservative party’s policy announcement

  • Government and politics

Recruiting and inducting trustees

Guidance on how to find and welcome new charity trustees

  • Governance

Running good meetings

Learn about the different types of meetings and how you can work to make them effective

  • Governance

Controls on financial assets and record keeping

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - controls on financial assets

  • Governance

Responsibilities of a lead trustee for safeguarding

Find out about a lead trustee for safeguarding's role and responsibilities

  • Safeguarding

Approaching diversity through equality and inclusion

How to approach diversity at board level

  • Governance

Funding and fundraising

Trustees should think carefully about how to secure income for their charity

  • Governance

Social investment

  • Funding and income

Investment

What to consider when deciding on investments

  • Financial management

Investment and borrowing

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - investment and borrowing section

  • Governance

Before you start

How to use NCVO's financial procedures manual template

  • Governance