Business planning and strategy

Trusted Standard

Trusted Standard helps charities and voluntary organisations improve the quality of their work, and communicate that quality through accreditation

  • Governance
  • Business planning and strategy
  • Impact and evaluation

Planning for tomorrow's workforce

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Business planning and strategy
  • Impact and evaluation

Charities must do more than survive, they must change too

  • Business planning and strategy

NCVO consults staff on restructure proposals

  • Business planning and strategy

Practical support bulletin: March 2024

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

  • Business planning and strategy
  • Involving volunteers

Practical support bulletin: May 2024

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

  • Digital and technology
  • Business planning and strategy
  • Funding and income

Trustee disqualification

Guidance to help your board learn about the rules on automatic disqualification, who this applies to and applying for waivers.

  • Business planning and strategy

Strategy and evaluation

Learn how to develop your organisation's strategy and how to use the evaluation process to learn and make decisions

  • Impact and evaluation
  • Business planning and strategy

Using and learning from evaluation findings

How to use and learn from your evaluation findings

  • Impact and evaluation
  • Business planning and strategy

Strategy and business planning

  • Business planning and strategy

Planning for tomorrow's workforce

  • Employing and managing staff
  • Business planning and strategy
  • Impact and evaluation

Charities must do more than survive, they must change too

  • Business planning and strategy

NCVO consults staff on restructure proposals

  • Business planning and strategy

Practical support bulletin: March 2024

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

  • Business planning and strategy
  • Involving volunteers

Practical support bulletin: May 2024

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

  • Digital and technology
  • Business planning and strategy
  • Funding and income

Writing your business plan

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

  • Business planning and strategy

Title page

Writing the title page section of your business plan

  • Business planning and strategy

Contents page

Writing the content page section of your business plan

  • Business planning and strategy

Executive summary

Writing the executive summary of your business plan

  • Business planning and strategy

About your organisation

Writing about your organisation in your business plan

  • Business planning and strategy

What we do

Writing about what your organisation does in your business plan

  • Business planning and strategy

Our market

How to navigate your market and customer base

  • Business planning and strategy

Market analysis

Writing the market analysis section of your business plan

  • Business planning and strategy

How we reach our market

Writing the market research section of your business plan

  • Business planning and strategy

Market research and testing

Writing the market research and testing section of your business plan

  • Business planning and strategy

Writing successful bids (0.5 day)

Learn how to write solid funding applications with confidence and focus

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

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

Setting up a charity (2 x 0.5 days)

This course will help you consider whether setting up a charity is the right choice for you

Charity finance strategy (1 day)

Learn how to analyse and use financial information to strengthen planning, build a strategy, and manage risk

Creating a theory of change for your charity (1 day)

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

Project management in the voluntary sector (2 days)

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

Strategic planning: Processes and tools for direction and decision making (1 day)

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

Influencing parliament (2 x 0.5 days)

This course introduces key parliamentary processes and ways charities can use them to influence parliamentarians and government

Advanced project management (1 day)

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.

Writing successful bids (0.5 day)

Learn how to write solid funding applications with confidence and focus