In light of the disorder and violence seen across the Country and the effect it’s having on people and communities, Kingston Voluntary Action are here to support our community and organisations. We have issued a statement and developed guidance and resources that may be of help.
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
- Read the Charity Commission's guidance on checking if a new charity is the best option
- 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
- 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
- Find information on different fundraising methods to help start your funding.
- 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)
- 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 treasures
- 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
- 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
- Top AI articles and resources for the not-for-profit sector
- Volunteer opportunities, rights and expenses: Tax on volunteers
- Recruitment site for professional volunteers+
- volunteering service supports for organisations in the Royal Borough of Kingston
- 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.