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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 set your organisation up to involve volunteers

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

The Road Ahead 2024 is our annual report on the changing landscape for voluntary sector organisations

Government and politics

The latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary

Involving volunteers

A round-up of the latest governance news, resources and dates for your diary

Governance

Our latest update on what’s happening in Westminster and how it might impact charities

Government and politics

Our people partner Charmaine Goddard reflects on the work NCVO and the wider sector are doing to challenge racism and inequity

Inside NCVO
Equity, diversity and inclusion

Charity Interns founder Maya Bhose shares how this innovative new programme is bringing new talent into the voluntary sector

Employing and managing staff

Senior volunteering consultant Helen Tourle shares the latest volunteering news, resources and dates for your diary

Involving volunteers

Senior volunteering consultant Helen Tourle shares lessons from a unique volunteering programme

Involving volunteers

A round-up of the latest governance news, resources and dates for your diary

Governance

Our latest Road Ahead report analyses major trends and issues for 2024 to help chart a path through the year

Legal protections for people who raise concerns

Safeguarding

How the Public Interest Disclosure Act protects any whistleblowing worker

Safeguarding

What organisations are expected or obliged to do when concerns are raised

Safeguarding

Find out about 'limitation periods' regarding certain types of claim

Safeguarding

Information about DBS checks and tools to help you understand the law as it applies to the roles in your organisation

Safeguarding

Information about getting DBS checks for staff and volunteers

Safeguarding

How to identify potential risks when creating a new staff or volunteering role

Safeguarding

How and when to ask about a staff member or volunteer's criminal history

Safeguarding

A comprehensive guide to different types of DBS checks

Safeguarding

Different roles will require different checks. This page explores what checks you might need to run

Safeguarding

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

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

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 free webinar as part of Small Charity Week 2025, will give small charity leaders practical tips to develop and deliver a successful fundraising strategy to ensure the resilience and sustainability of their charity.

We know that increased competition for funding, shifting priorities among funders, and economic uncertainty are making trust fundraising more challenging for charities. It’s more important than ever to understand the evolving funding landscape and adapt your approach. This free event is an opportunity to network with other NCVO members in facilitated discussions. Share experiences and challenges, work through solutions together, develop new relationships and learn from your peers.

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

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

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

This course has been created by The Social Justice Collective to help you understand, address and embed equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into your governance practice

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Data protection essentials (2 x 0.5 days)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

Designated safeguarding leads in charities (1 day)

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

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

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Supporting good governance (4 x 0.5 days)

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in charity governance (2 x 0.5 days)

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