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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

Our latest update on what’s happening in Westminster that might impact charities. This month sees a new government, with plenty for charities to think about.

Government and politics

NCVO’s lead governance consultant Dan Francis shares our plans for Trustees’ Week and explores our wider support offer for trustees

Governance

Policy and insight manager Sam Mercadante responds to the government's new financial measures, calling for more funding and policy choices that prevent poverty and inequality

Responding to crises
Government and politics

Report of the Inquiry into charity senior executive pay and guidance for trustees on setting remuneration

Financial management

Involving volunteers

Government and politics
Funding and income

Involving volunteers
Government and politics

Governance

Different roles will require different checks. This page explores what checks you might need to run

Safeguarding

How to request and process DBS checks

Safeguarding

Guidance on what checks you need to complete for people working overseas

Safeguarding

Guidance on additional information you need to consider when carrying out DBS checks for trustees

Safeguarding

Steps you need to take to keep data safe once DBS checks have been carried out

Safeguarding

Guidance on what to do if a staff member or volunteer has a criminal record

Safeguarding

Find out about whistleblowing, and the policies your organisation should have in place.

Safeguarding

Questions you might ask yourself if you're thinking of raising a concern.

Safeguarding

Find out about different types of concerns and ways they can be reported.

Safeguarding

Find out why it's useful to stay up to date with safeguarding terminology

Safeguarding

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

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

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

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

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

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

This practical course is specifically tailored to the voluntary sector. It’s designed to give you all the principles and practical tools you need to plan, deliver and evaluate your project successfully

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

Boost your personal influence and impact (0.5 day)

Financial governance for trustees (0.5 day)

Safeguarding essentials in charities (1 day)

Charity trustee induction and refresher (2 x 0.5 days)

Safeguarding essentials for trustees (0.5 day)

Managing people in the charity sector (2 days)

Charity finance skills (1 day)

Good practice in volunteer management (1 day)

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

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