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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

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

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

Incorporating conflicts of interest into your financial procedures manual

Governance

A basic building block of internal control

Governance

Putting together a properly costed plan, and then using it to monitor progress

Governance

The Charity Commission expects organisations to know that their money is coming from somewhere reputable. This guidance explains what you can take.

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's control on expenditure manual templates

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - investment and borrowing section

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - controls on financial assets

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - human resources

Governance

Guidance for using NCVO's financial procedures manual templates - controls on physical assets

Governance

Downloadable financial procedures manual templates for charities and voluntary organisations.

A space for charity governance professionals to come together, learn and network

This practical one-day course for aspiring and existing charity leaders will strengthen your understanding of authentic leadership, so you can lead with integrity and impact

This course will develop your skills and help you use a marketing approach to recruit volunteers

Get an introduction to data collection methods and practical guidance for evaluating your work

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 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 revisit the core financial duties of a charity trustee and explore what it means to practice good financial governance

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

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

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Understanding your landscape and conditions

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

Employment Rights Bill: what charities need to know

Updates to NCVO’s executive team

What the Autumn 2025 Budget means for your charity

Conflicts of interest

Segregation of duties

Exercising budgetary control and monitoring

Controls on income

Controls on expenditure

Investment and borrowing

Controls on financial assets and record keeping

Controls on human resource costs

Controls on physical assets

Templates

Governance Forum

Authentic leadership (1 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Boost your personal influence and impact (0.5 day)

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

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

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Authentic leadership (1 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

Tools and methods for measuring outcomes (1 day)

Boost your personal influence and impact (0.5 day)

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

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

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