Business planning and strategy

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Writing about what your organisation does in your business plan

Business planning and strategy

How to navigate your market and customer base

Business planning and strategy

Writing the market analysis section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Writing the market research section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Writing the market research and testing section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Writing the operational planning section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Writing the people, management and governance section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Writing the impact section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Writing the cost and income structure section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Writing the financial forecasts section of your business plan

Business planning and strategy

Employing and managing staff
Business planning and strategy
Impact and evaluation

Business planning and strategy

Business planning and strategy

Resources, events, support and information on the big issues affecting small charities

Business planning and strategy
Involving volunteers

Resources, events and information on the big issues affecting small charities

Digital and technology
Business planning and strategy
Funding and income

Business planning and strategy
Impact and evaluation
Consultancy

Business planning and strategy

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

Use this tool to help you identify the forces working for and against a particular option

Business planning and strategy

Use this tool to help your organisation explore tradeoffs

Business planning and strategy

This training provides you with the insights, tools, and confidence to evaluate and strengthen your organisation’s culture providing a strong foundation for success.

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

Learn how to develop your first fundraising strategy. This course is aimed at small to medium-sized charities looking to grow their fundraising offer.

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

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

Are you confident in your general project management skills but looking to strengthen your expertise? This course moves beyond the basics of project management to better understand techniques, activities and principles within a charity context.

An NCVO Event

This course will give you an overview of how to build a simple finance strategy. We’ll introduce tools to help you build the financial resilience of your charity

Business planning and strategy

What we do

Our market

Market analysis

How we reach our market

Market research and testing

Operational plan

People, management and governance

Our impact

Cost and income structure

Financial forecasts

Planning for tomorrow's workforce

Charities must do more than survive, they must change too

NCVO consults staff on restructure proposals

Practical support bulletin: March 2024

Practical support bulletin: May 2024

Overcoming sticking points in strategy development: A conversation with Sini and Sam

The importance of project management in the voluntary sector

How we help charities build confidence in evaluation

Forcefield analysis

Even over statements

Leading a thriving organisational culture (1 Day)

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

Developing a Fundraising Strategy (0.5 day)

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

Building a sustainable and resilient fundraising strategy (1 day)

Advanced project management (1 day)

Leading external engagement (2 days)

Charity finance strategy (1 day)

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)