Kingston Voluntary Action has compiled various free online resources to assist your not-for-profit organisation, from setup to finance and everything in between. Please see below:
- Guidance for charity accounts on Charity SORP
- Get impartial help with charity bank accounts on Voluntary Organisation Banking Guide
- Guidance on Charity reserves: building resilience
- Look at the charity finance resources library on Sayer Vincent
- Find out more about Income Tax rates and Personal Allowances
- Guidance for Gift Aid
- Find payroll software that is recognised by HMRC
- Find software that's compatible with Making Tax Digital for VAT
- Free advice for employees and employers from ACAS
- Extensive list of resources for small charity finance: embracefinance.org.uk
- Charitysetup.org.uk powered by NCVO, is a dedicated support website for setting up a new charity, step by step.
- Small Charity Support offers guidance for starting a small charity and further resources for trustees and programme planning.
- The Association of Chairs has a variety of training, events, and resources for Chair and trustees of charities.
- Read the Charity Commission's guidance on checking if a new charity is the best option
- Community interest companies: forms and step-by-step guides - GOV.UK
- Read the NVCO information on Deciding to set up a new charitable organisation
- Read the Charity Commission’s guidance on What Makes a Charity
- Find information about the 13 descriptions of a charitable purposeand the public benefit requirement on the Charity Commission’s website.
- Take a look at NCVO Charity Set Up Tool for setting up and registering a charity.
- Find information about how to register a charity on the Charity Commission website
- Register as a community amateur sports club (CASC): Overview - GOV.UK
- What is an Exempt Charity
- What is a Community Benefit Society? - Cwmpas
- The Charity Commission has guidance on how to write your governing document
- The Charity Set Up tool has guidance on how to write your charitable purposes and choose your governing document
- The Association of Chairs has a guide on your charity’s constitution to help chairs navigate their charity’s governing document
- Free tools to improve your website accessibility
- What is a domain?
- A training programme to help you plan, build and edit a free website in 7 weeks
- Explore advice on how to reach your market
- How to develop a communication strategy
- How to plan a new website
- Free digital advice for charities with Digital Candle
- GDPR guidance is available on ICO
- Learn about cybersecurity basics with Superhighways
- Read information on NVCO Data protection
- Small Charity offers a comprehensive Policy Template
- Watch the webinar by NVCO: GDPR and data protection for charities and community groups
- New UK Grant Making Charitable Trusts & Foundations List
- Find information on different fundraising methods to help start your funding.
- AI Grant Writer - Plinth- please contact KVA for sponsored credits
- Find out about different organisations which can help your funding journey
- Explore details about how funding works here
- Ways to fund your tech and digital infrastructure
- GivingLottery offers a great way to raise regular unrestricted funds
- Have a look at Online fundraising donations and ideas - JustGiving
- Sign-up for Easyfundrasisng - Free unrestricted funding for your organisation
- Add a donation page to your website with CA: Our charity services | Financial support, advice and insight | CAF (cafonline.org)
- Part of a small fundraising team (or is the entire team just you)? The Chartered Institute of Fundraising (CioF) has developed a small charity hub full of professional development tips, templates and how-to-guides.
- Charity Excellence Framework has a funding finder for small charities, as well as a list of organisations willing to donate raffle prizes.
- KVA funding opportunities webpage
- Charity excellence
- Induct - Grantway
- Get Grants
- International funders - Fundsforngos
- Grants online
- Fundsonline
- Idox Grantfinder: Book an appointment via our ask the expert to use Grantfinder for free
- Browse the government grants here
- Find out about governance framework and what it looks like
- Learn what governance is
- Explore the charity governance code
- Read about trustees and their roles
- 5-minute guides for Charity Trustees
- Decision-making for charity trustees - GOV.UK
- Learn how to recruit treasurers
- Trustees Recruitment: Recruit a trustee | Reach Volunteering
- The importance of diversity in your trustee board | NCVO
- Navigating charity campaigning, a guide for trustees - recently updated and released by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation.
- Understand What is business planning?
- Read the NCVO information on writing your business plan
- Learn about the Theory of Change
- Understanding your landscape and condition by DonorBox: How to Perform a Nonprofit SWOT Analysis
- Charity Excellence offers various free templates
- Resource Centre policies and procedures
- Read NCVO’s guidance on impact and evaluation
- Learn about the Outcome Star
- Building your measurement framework with NPC’s four pillar approach
- See the Impact Measurement Toolkit
- Read the monitoring and evaluation information from the Resource Centre
- Learn how to ensure your data is accessible, reusable and maintained independently of any technology or service.
- Visit the Information Commissioner's Office website
- Find out how to use the Indices of Multiple Deprivation
- Report a Data Breach
- Find the steps to improve data protection in your organisation
- Learn how to choose and implement a CRM
- Superhighway roundup -Top AI articles and resources for the not-for-profit sector
- AI for Charities - Free AI Tools for Non Profits (charityexcellence.co.uk)
- AI literacy for social inclusion: We and AI
- How chatities are using AI - Key Statistics
- AI Grant Writer - Plinth- please contact KVA for sponsored credits
- Charity AI Policy and Template - Charity Excellence ramework
- Summarising meetings: Otter AI, Zoom AI, Teams Premium or Google Meet
- Copilot - Use in Bing/Edge & Windows. Integrates with Microsoft 365
- Perplexity - answers with citations
- ChatGPT (OpenAI) - Basis for most generative AI technology used
- Claude.ai (Anthropic) - Good for detailed responses for data analysis
- Gemini - Integrates with Google Workspace and good for translations
- Diversity in Charity Sector Recruitment: A Hiring Guide
- Learn how to recruit treasurers
- Trustees Recruitment: Recruiting and inducting trustees | NCVO and Recruit a trustee | Reach Volunteering
- Recruitment site for professional volunteers
- Volunteer opportunities, rights and expenses: Tax on volunteers
- Recruitment site for professional volunteers
- volunteering service supports for organisations in the Royal Borough of Kingston
- Reach Volunteering can be helpful for finding volunteers for your charity, and don’t forget that it’s free to post volunteer ads on CharityJob.
- The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has very thorough guidance on all aspects of safeguarding for voluntary and community groups.
- For child safeguarding guidance, the NSPCC has a comprehensive range of guides and tools.
- For safeguarding adults, the Ann Craft Trust has a comprehensive range of guides and tools.
- The Charity Commission has guidance on safeguarding for charities and trustees.
- Safety Net, now in partnership with Impact Initiatives, offers training and support around child safeguarding. They are based in Brighton.
- The Charity Mentoring Network connects charity staff and volunteers with mentors both inside and outside the sector.
- The Cranfield Trust offers a wide range of services to support charities, including free management consultancy and mentoring.
- CharityComms runs a great mentoring scheme for those within the communications discipline.
- And don’t forget, you can always ask for a mentor on CharityConnect.