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Business planning and strategy

Learn about what you need to know to get started with your organisation's strategy and business planning

Business planning and strategy

Use this page to learn about what strategy is and how it can help your organisation

Business planning and strategy

Use this page to learn who to involve in developing your strategy and how best to engage them

Business planning and strategy

Learn about how to create the right strategy process for your organisation.

Business planning and strategy

Learn about Theory of Change as a process and a tool

Business planning and strategy

Find out what's involved in setting the direction of your charity

Business planning and strategy

Learn about understanding your organisation's landscape and conditions and the tools that can help with this

Business planning and strategy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This practical session will build your awareness of different types of reporting and support you to tell a compelling story through your reporting

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Strategy and business planning

Getting started with strategy and business planning

What is strategy?

Involving people in developing your strategy

Creating the right strategy process for your organisation

Theory of Change

Setting the direction of your organisation

Understanding your landscape and conditions

Gathering knowledge to assess your situation

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Time to flex: Embracing flexible working

The Road Ahead 2022

UK Civil Society Almanac 2021

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Charities Bill: Lords Second Reading

Where power lies: How lived experience is engaged in voluntary sector governance and decision-making

Rebalancing the Relationship: Final report

Rebalancing the relationship: emerging findings and draft recommendations

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Time Well Spent: Diversity and volunteering

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Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

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

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Designated safeguarding leads in charities (1 day)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

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Outcomes and impact measurement (1 day)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

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

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Designated safeguarding leads in charities (1 day)

Advanced data protection (2 x 0.5 days)

Better impact reporting (0.5 day)

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