Power up programme

A series of live webinars to support your organisation across a number of important areas

Live Webinars 

These are monthly webinars that you can book onto that will help you with your organisational development

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Essential guides, webinars, and tools to help your organisation with its strategic and planning activities

Strategy and Planning

A theory of change will help your organisation demonstrate your mission and impact with clarity and confidence. This guide and tool will guide you through the process.

Guide to Developing a Theory of Change

Webinar that will guide you through understanding a theory of change, why develop one, and how to do it for your organisation

Webinar - Developing a Theory of Change

Understand , develop and review your vision, mission and values with this guide to ensure clarity for your organisation and align it to your strategy and culture.

Guide to Vision, Mission and Values

Guiding you through what vision, mission, values are, how these will help your organisation, and how to develop effective ones.

Webinar - Vision, Mission, and Values

Understand how to develop a strategic plan for your organisation with step by step directions

Guide to Developing a Strategic Plan

This guide will support charities to develop a business plan for commercial activities

Guide to Business Planning

This short guide will take you through the key considerations when setting up, changing or closing a charitable organisation alongside essential links to other resources and advice. 

Guide to Setting Up, Changing and Closing a Charitable Organisation.

This pre-recorded webinar will guide you through the process of business planning. We recommend that you also download the Guide to Business Planning to support you at each stage.

Webinar on Developing a Business Plan

Resources and guides to support your organisation to establish and maintain effective governance. 

Governance

A guide to support your organisation embed good and effective governance with helpful advice and links for further exploration. 

Guide to Governance

Guiding you through all the steps to recruit trustee's.

Guide to Trustee Recruitment

Guides to help your organisation with planning, finding and applying for funding. 

Income Generation

A quick guide for smaller organisations to help you plan, research and develop a fundraising strategy for your organisation

Guide to Developing a Fundraising Strategy

A guide to making a strong case for support and securing funds for your organisation and its activities. 

Guide to Bid Writing and Funding Applications

A guide to help ensure you fundraising activities are conducted legally and ethically. 

Guide to Fundraising Governance for Charities

This guide will give you practical ideas and links to help you find funding sources and reach funders. 

Guide to Identifying and Reaching Funders

A webinar, Guides and tools to help you recruit and manage volunteers

Volunteer Management

Discover practical ways to recruit, engage, and retain volunteers in today's landscape. 

The Power of Volunteering Guide

Guiding you through all aspects of recruiting and managing volunteers in your organisation. 

Webinar on the Power of Volunteering

Essential guides and tools to help your organisation have effective monitoring and evaluation processes in place to demonstrate your impact

Monitoring and Evaluation 

Step by step guide to developing a monitoring and evaluation framework for your organisation.

Guide to Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework

This guide is aimed at supporting small
and medium sized voluntary and
community organisations to gain greater
awareness in the range of methods to
engage their community.

It provides helpful advice and tips for
each method to help you confidently
choose the right method and use it
effectively.

A Guide to Community Engagement Methods 

This guide is aimed at small and medium
sized community focused organisations. It
offers ideas to help you begin or improve
your engagement with the community you
work with and for.

Guide to Planning Community Engagement

Key resources to help support your organisation make the most of digital tools, platforms and comms. 

Digital, Marketing and Comms

This guide will provide you key, mostly free, digital platforms and tools that will support your organisation. 

A Guide to Digital Tools

This guide will take you through the steps to develop a social media strategy. It also has an appendix full of tips and ideas to get you started with social media. Ideal for an organisation starting out or just getting started with their social media or those wanting to review their social media approach. 

A Guide to Developing a Social Media Strategy

The National Cyber Security Centre has some useful guidance that is applicable to charities as a small or medium business. They have a free cyber security toolkit alongside guides on cyber security, social media, securing devices, phishing, mitigating attacks, using online services safely, home working, and video conferencing. 

This link will take you to an external website. 