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Tools and good-practice guidance to help you review, run and improve your board, compiled by NCVO's governance experts

Governance

Read the new Code, which sets out principles of good governance for charities.

The governance wheel is a simple tool that helps boards of voluntary organisations quickly get a sense of how well they’re functioning and fulfilling their roles.

Information and tools on strategic planning.

Six steps to follow when recruiting trustees and nine editable documents to aid your recruitment

A skills audit is a useful way of identifying what trustees bring, and the gaps in skills and knowledge on your board. It can be useful when you’re looking to recruit new trustees.

Self reflection is an important part of your professional development and will help you to do your role effectively.

Guidance on conducting individual trustee performance reviews

Governance

Templates and guidance for creating a financial procedures manual that will provide a framework for managing your organisation's finances.

Governance

How to use NCVO's financial procedures manual template

Governance

The Employment Rights Bill introduces the biggest changes to UK employment law in decades. Find out when these changes will happen and what you should be doing to get ready.

Membership body announces changes to its executive team following the arrival of new CEO, Kate Lee.

Limited measures announced, but not enough to ease financial strain on charities.

Funding and income
Government and politics

New to trusteeship or looking to hone your skills? Sign in to access our Trustees' Week webinar series

Find out what volunteering is and how to get started

Involving volunteers

How volunteers can benefit your organisation and play an important role in your work

Involving volunteers

A volunteer strategy helps secure the support to help your volunteering do more

Involving volunteers

Understand how equity, diversity and inclusion affects volunteers and those they support

Involving volunteers

How to write volunteer role descriptions that show your volunteers' roles and responsibilities

Involving volunteers

It’s good practice to pay back volunteers for expenses they incur while volunteering

Involving volunteers

Understand volunteer coordinator roles and decide how to support your volunteers

Involving volunteers

Help volunteers understand their role in safeguarding and their own right to be safe

Involving volunteers

How a volunteer policy can benefit your organisation and what it should include

Involving volunteers

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

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

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

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

This practical course is specifically tailored to the voluntary sector. It’s designed to give you all the principles and practical tools you need to plan, deliver and evaluate your project successfully

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

This course will take you through the essentials of lawful data processing for charities and help improve your compliance with the law

This one-day training course provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of safeguarding leads in charities in England

Join us for a discussion on the future of partnership working between local government and civil society.

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Tools and guidance

Charity Governance Code

Governance wheel

Strategic planning

Trustee recruitment pack for small organisations

Trustee skills audit

Individual trustee self reflection

Individual trustee performance reviews

Financial procedures manual

Before you start

Employment Rights Bill: what charities need to know

Updates to NCVO’s executive team

What the Autumn 2025 Budget means for your charity

Trustees' Week webinar series

What is volunteering?

Why involve volunteers?

Writing a volunteering strategy

Equity, diversity and inclusion in volunteering

Writing volunteer role descriptions

Paying volunteer expenses

Coordinating volunteers

Safeguarding and volunteers

Writing a volunteer policy

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Data protection essentials (2 x 0.5 days)

Designated safeguarding leads in charities (1 day)

APPG on Charities and Volunteering: local partnership working

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Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Data protection essentials (2 x 0.5 days)

Designated safeguarding leads in charities (1 day)

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