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Guidance on choosing a system to help you recruit, train, engage and retain your volunteers

Involving volunteers

Practical guidance to help you recruit and induct volunteers

Involving volunteers

How to run volunteer recruitment and where to find the volunteers you need

Involving volunteers

Important things to consider when creating a new volunteer role

Involving volunteers

Advertise your role and attract the right volunteers

Involving volunteers

Make sure your application and interview processes are accessible and fair

Involving volunteers

Carry out the appropriate checks and let volunteers know if they've been successful

Involving volunteers

How volunteering affects volunteers who claim benefits and how you can support them

Involving volunteers

The rules about volunteers from overseas, including who can and can’t volunteer and what the restrictions are

Involving volunteers

How to write a volunteer agreement without creating an employment contract

Involving volunteers

Involving volunteers
Coronavirus

Read our latest round-up for trustees and governance professionals, with useful sector updates, training courses and written guidance.

Governance

In this edition, Sandy Chidley, senior consultant, spotlights opportunities in impact and evaluation and shares useful evaluation resources and training opportunities

Impact and evaluation

Our survey of more than 10,000 people provides the most detailed analysis of volunteering for a decade

Digital and technology
Involving volunteers

Building on existing work on corporate volunteering, this report looks at employer-supported volunteering through the eyes of the volunteer

Employing and managing staff
Involving volunteers

This round-up will help you to stay informed about our influencing work, and any government policy and funding announcements. For news related to what’s happening in parliament, see our regular inside track round-up.

Government and politics

Governance consultant Sally Stephens shares updates on the Charities Act and the Charity Governance Code, along with some exciting training opportunities for trustees

Governance

We explain what dormant assets are, how they could support communities and how you can help make that happen.

Law and regulation

Government and politics
Responding to crises

Voluntary sector partners joint statement on the cost of living crisis

Government and politics
Responding to crises

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

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 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

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

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

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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Advanced project management (1 day)

Leading change and transformation (2 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 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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