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Use this section to select the right tools to help you understand your landscape and conditions.

Business planning and strategy

A guide to help your organisation with your SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis

A guide to help organisations consider how the world is changing

A guide for your organisation to look at the priorities and impact of other organisations in your area of work

Learn about how to make good decisions and the tools that can help with this

Business planning and strategy

Find out about how to select the right tools to help you make good decisions

Business planning and strategy

A guide to help your organisation explore it's activities to assess the extent to which each contributes to value and surplus

Use this tool to help you identify the forces working for and against a particular option

Use this tool to help your organisation explore tradeoffs

Learn about how to develop your organisation's business plan

Business planning and strategy

Governance
Leadership

Learn about what budgets and cashflow forecasts are and how to write a budget

Financial management

Learn about who to involve in writing your budget, how to assess it and dealing with uncertainty

Financial management

Learn about how to build a cashflow forecast and how the cashflow process works

Financial management

Guidance on budgeting for projects and recovering costs

Financial management

Learn about direct costs and support costs for single and multiple projects

Financial management

Learn about what cost allocation and apportionment mean and how it works in practice

Financial management

Learn about what full cost recovery means and what the limitations are

Financial management

How to prepare annual accounts and a Trustees’ Annual Report and make them available on request

Financial management

Creating financial information that helps managers and trustees

Financial management

What to consider when deciding on investments

Financial management

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

This course will give trustees an overview and understanding of charity governance, regulation and best practice

Being an NCVO member means being part of a community. Whether you've just joined us, or you're renewing your membership and need a refresher, join this session to meet and network with other members online

A chance to hear from regulators about their plans for the voluntary sector.

This course will help you to manage conflict and problem solve with your volunteers, and navigate the process of ending volunteering well.

Learn how to create an evaluation plan to better understand and demonstrate the difference your work makes

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

Learn how to navigate today’s toughest financial challenges facing small voluntary organisations. Discover the tools, insights, and real-world examples you need to build resilience, manage risk and lead with financial confidence.

This course will introduce processes and tools to help ensure that decision-making is responsive to your environment and focused on the most important issues affecting your organisation

This practical two-day course for aspiring and existing charity leaders will build your confidence and skills to deliver impact for yourself and your organisation. Learn who your key stakeholders are and how to use communication tools to build engagement and partnerships

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Gathering knowledge to assess your situation

SWOT

PESTLE

Other players

Making good decisions

Deciding what you will do and how

Dual bottom line analysis

Forcefield analysis

Even over statements

Business planning

Saskia Konynenburg appointed Interim Chief Executive of NCVO

Defining budgets and cashflow forecasts and writing a budget

Budgeting: Who to involve, how to assess it and dealing with uncertainty

Building a cashflow forecast and understanding the cashflow process

Project budgeting and full cost recovery

Direct costs and support costs

Cost allocation and apportionment

Full cost recovery

External reporting

Management accounts

Investment

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

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

NCVO member welcome and refresher session: July 2025

All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Charities and Volunteering

Managing conflict and ending volunteering well (0.5 day)

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

NCVO/Zurich webinar: navigating financial risk with confidence

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Leading external engagement (2 days)

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

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Managing conflict and ending volunteering well (0.5 day)

Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Leading external engagement (2 days)

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