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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

Learn about what business planning is in your organisation's context

Business planning and strategy

Find out about how to write your business plan for your organisation

Business planning and strategy

Writing the title page section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Writing the content page section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Governance
Leadership

Campaigning
Government and politics

Government and politics
Funding and income

Many charities want to evaluate their impact but lack time or confidence. This blog shares how we support practical, sustainable approaches to self-evaluation.

Business planning and strategy
Impact and evaluation

NCVO announces the appointment of Kate Lee OBE as its new chief executive, joining at a crucial moment for the voluntary sector.

Leadership
Governance

A statement from Kate Lee OBE, our chief executive, on the recent attacks in Manchester.

Responding to crises

Guidance around safeguarding vulnerable clients and volunteers

Involving volunteers

Advice on DBS checks for volunteers and volunteer involving organisations

Involving volunteers

Guidance and policies to consider when using volunteer drivers

Involving volunteers

Guidance on copyright and volunteers

Involving volunteers

A free online tool for volunteer-involving groups and organisations

Involving volunteers

Read our top tips for how your organisation can make volunteering inclusive for disabled people.

Guidance to help you prepare for your first grant application

Funding and income

Guidance to help you decide if applying for a grant is the best option

Funding and income

What you need to apply for a grant

Funding and income

Learn about what a grant fund is and how it works

Funding and income

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

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

Discover how partnership working can help your organisation grow its impact and make the most of limited resources. Gain practical tools, legal insights and guidance to build strong and successful collaborations.

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

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 help you create a positive and inclusive experience for volunteers. The course will explore best practice in relation to safeguarding, data protection, health and safety, and equality

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

Get an overview of the key tasks and considerations when creating a volunteer strategy. Learn how to develop a strategy that compliments your business plan and create a framework for building success

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

Join fellow NCVO members at our Annual General Meeting to connect, reflect on the year’s achievements, shape the future of NCVO and make your voice heard.

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Making good decisions

Deciding what you will do and how

Dual bottom line analysis

Forcefield analysis

Even over statements

Business planning

What is business planning?

Writing your business plan

Title page

Contents page

Saskia Konynenburg appointed Interim Chief Executive of NCVO

Civil Society Covenant launched to reset partnership with government

Help shape new public procurement rules for charities

How we help charities build confidence in evaluation

Kate Lee OBE appointed new chief executive

Manchester attacks: a statement

Safeguarding, vulnerable clients and DBS

Disclosure and barring service (DBS)

Volunteer drivers

Copyright and volunteers

Investing in volunteers (IiV) Essentials

Making volunteering more inclusive for disabled people

All about grants

Deciding to apply for a grant

Getting ready to apply

Understanding a grant fund

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Developing partnership working (0.5 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

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

Volunteers and the law (0.5 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Developing a volunteer strategy (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Annual General Meeting 2025

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Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Strategic planning: tools for decision making (1 day)

Developing partnership working (0.5 day)

Recruiting volunteers (0.5 day)

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

Volunteers and the law (0.5 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Developing a volunteer strategy (1 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

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