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Full cost recovery

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

  • Financial management

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

A forum for discussing the issues affecting the voluntary and community sector

A message from our outgoing Chair

Dr Priya Singh reflects on her time as Chair and welcomes the new Chair Designate, Jude Sheeran, as the organisation looks to the future with a new strategy.

  • Inside NCVO

NCVO welcomes new president and trustees at 2024 AGM

Baroness Delyth Morgan was confirmed as NCVO's new president. Two new trustees, Ruth Marvel and Louise Posocco, were also appointed

  • Inside NCVO
  • Governance

Writing a financial strategy

Guidance on creating a financial strategy and what you need to include

  • Financial management

Our financial position and the importance of timing

Learn more about your organisation's financial position and understanding the timings of financial challenges

  • Financial management

Collaborative working to generate income

Guidance on fundraising through the gift economy (public giving, voluntary donations) and the open market (trading)

  • Collaboration

The Road Ahead 2025

  • Government and politics

Direct costs and support costs

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

  • Financial management

Record membership growth for NCVO and better-than-expected financial performance highlighted in 2021 annual report

Ahead of its Annual General Meeting on 22 November, NCVO today publishes its annual report and financial accounts for the year ending 31 March 2021.

  • Membership

Small Charity Week 2025: New match funding campaign to boost small charities

  • Funding and income
  • Campaigning

Why Investing in Volunteering is Money Well Spent

  • Funding and income
  • Involving volunteers

What Spending Review 2025 means for charities

Explore how the 2025 Spending Review affects charities – including changes to welfare, school meals, NICs and local government funding.

  • Funding and income
  • Government and politics

Charities raise serious concerns about government’s earned settlement proposals

Charities and voluntary organisations are raising serious concerns about government proposals to link volunteering to asylum settlement.

Spring Briefing 2026

Charities are increasingly operating in what we call Protection Mode. Read our full report to explore the findings in detail.

Autumn Statement 2023: Impact on charities

Policy and insight manager Sam Mercadante considers the implications of the Autumn Statement for charities

National service and volunteering: A guide to the Conservative party’s policy announcement

  • Government and politics

Understanding Trustee Recruitment and Retention Challenges

A survey of the voluntary sector

  • Involving volunteers
  • Governance

How charities and civil society can support Ukraine

  • Responding to crises

About safeguarding reports

What are safeguarding reports and how can trustees work with them?

  • Safeguarding

Legal advice and assistance

Sources of legal advice and assistance for charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.

  • Law and regulation

Using volunteers to build your digital and technology skills and capacity

Find out about national schemes to provide charities and other organisations with digital volunteer support

  • Digital and technology

Social investment

  • Funding and income

Approaching diversity through equality and inclusion

How to approach diversity at board level

  • Governance

Considering strategic and operational problems as a board

Learn about how to navigate strategic and operational problems and where the responsibility is located

  • Governance

Charity finance skills (1 day)

We know numbers can be daunting. Whether you are a staff member managing daily operations or a trustee overseeing governance, understanding your charity financial health is key to sustainable impact.

Charity finance skills (1 day)

We know numbers can be daunting. Whether you are a staff member managing daily operations or a trustee overseeing governance, understanding your charity financial health is key to sustainable impact.

Charity finance skills (1 day)

We know numbers can be daunting. Whether you are a staff member managing daily operations or a trustee overseeing governance, understanding your charity financial health is key to sustainable impact.

Building a sustainable and resilient fundraising strategy (1 day)

Through a blend of theoretical frameworks and practical application, you'll learn how to strengthen your current fundraising strategy so that is not only effective today but sustainable and resilient for years to come.