During this interactive course you will explore what is required when defining strategy, culture and values within your organisation, and bythe end of the session you will:

• understand the purpose of strategy and what a charity strategic plan should include
• understand the board’s role in developing and monitoring strategy, and shaping organisational culture and values

This online course is packed full of content to give you an overview of annual accounts and external reporting.

Financial reporting requirements:Statutory reporting requirements; Audit/independent examination levels; Format of accounts and thresholds – Receipts & Payments or SORP-compliant.

Understanding financial statements:Format of the annual accounts; Overview of a set of SORP-compliant accounts; Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA); Balance sheets and notes to financial statements.

The Trustees Annual Report:Format and content; How it links to the financial statements; What makes a good TAR.

Reserves:What’s included in reserves; Building up reserves; The reserves’ policy.

Reporting to regulators:Reporting to OSCR; Reporting to Companies House; Notifying changes; Sharing information with the public.

This interactive online course covers tools and techniques to get the best out of your people including delegation skills, team engagement and holding people to account. You will learn active listening and good questioning techniques, fundamental to handling difficult conversations and people.It will share the five steps to having great delivery conversations and how to adapt your approach to different people and scenarios.We explore how to create working environments where people feel empowered and engaged.

By the end of this course you will:

• understand governance role of trustees in supporting staff to deliver and holding them accountable
• learn how to manage the governance/management relationship and the different interests and needs of trustees and staff

Through group work and individual exercises this one day course will cover:

• benefits of monitoring and evaluating
• key stages of measuring impact and value
• what is impact and what is value?
• the current measurement of your project for funders
• what data can you collect to demonstrate impact and value to funders?
• top tips for putting together a basic impact and value evaluation report for your funders

This interactive online course covers tools and techniques to get the best out of your people including delegation skills, team engagement and holding people to account. You will learn active listening and good questioning techniques, fundamental to handling difficult conversations and people.It will share the five steps to having great delivery conversations and how to adapt your approach to different people and scenarios.We explore how to create working environments where people feel empowered and engaged.

This online course will help you understand key safeguarding issues within the sector. Practical and applied in nature, we will use a range of interactive techniques to build your confidence to make a positive change for everyone engaged in your work.

Participants will leave the session:

• with an understanding and being able to define safeguarding in relation to the voluntary sector
• with knowledge of key regulatory requirements and where to learn more
• having considered how to build a positive safeguarding culture in your organisation; including the role of policies and procedures
• having reflected on responding to harm and offering proportionate responses

This course will help you to understand the components of project stages and lifecycles. It will provide an understanding of project methodologies and their application, teaching you how to develop a project plan, identify/mitigate risks and construct a strategy for monitoring/review. You will leave with an understanding of the following areas and the tools required to:

1. Define the stages of a project and develop an understanding of a project lifecycle from conception to commissioning/hand over. Using this knowledge, assess where projects fit into operational activities.
2. Develop the ability to use various approaches and tools to manage a project and understand how to use these to form a business case and engage sponsors. This will include how to create an effective management environment/culture to support projects and identification of effective communication methods for each shareholder.
3. Design a project plan to achieve a specified objective. This will include financial components such as risk appraisal for effective project design and control as well as a monitoring and review strategy for a project that assesses impact and achievement.

This interactive online course covers tools and techniques to get the best out of your people including delegation skills, team engagement and holding people to account. You will learn active listening and good questioning techniques, fundamental to handling difficult conversations and people.It will share the five steps to having great delivery conversations and how to adapt your approach to different people and scenarios.We explore how to create working environments where people feel empowered and engaged.

Organisations change and adapt over time, and never more so than in the past couple of years. Therefore, it is important volunteering is reviewed so it matches the needs of your organisation and the expectations of current and future volunteers. This online course is interactive, blending practical examples and group discussions, which will allow you to consider and explore:

• volunteering today - trends and developments
• volunteering in my organisation - what makes it ‘sticky’?
• the volunteer journey - making it long and interesting!
• supporting volunteers - to help them give their best
• rewarding volunteers - celebrating success
• creating an action plan - developing volunteering in your organisation