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Our Community Development Team provides specialist information and support to local community groups, social enterprises and charities. Our expertise allows us to provide critical support to our Members when they need it most. Helpfully we’ve created a Library of useful toolkits and links that provide easy to navigate information and guidance across a broad range of issues facing organisations like yours.
Can’t find what you need? Our Community Development Team provides tailored support to groups on a case-by-case basis.
If you need to speak with a member of our team, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by emailing support@cfirst.org.uk or call 0300 500 8085.
Governance & Leadership
Management and governance for your organisation, including roles and responsibilities of Trustees.
| Title | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Association of Chairs | Membership organisation supporting Chairs and Vice Chairs of charities and social enterprises in England and Wales | Visit website |
| Being a Charity Trustee | All the information you need to be an effective trustee and run your charity, so it delivers on its purpose. | Visit website |
| Being a trustee in an age of permacrisis | A guide for charity trustees on how to govern in a crisis. | Visit website |
| Charity Governance Code | Developed by NCVO and partners this information and code includes a practical tool to help charities and their trustees develop high standards of governance | Visit website |
| Community First Training | Community First offer a wide range of Governance Training, including bespoke courses designed to meet the needs of your Charity | Visit website |
| Directory of Social Change - The Governance App | An online tool that any Board can use to review their governance – and work on improvements. | Visit website |
| Future - Engage - Deliver | Link to a book on the FED Leadership model | Visit website |
| Future - Engage - Deliver - Book Sample | Link to a sample summarising the FED Leadership model | Visit website |
| Getting On Board - Free Resources | Free online trustee recruitment guidance, tools and templates | Visit website |
| GOV.UK - 5-minute guides for charity trustees | GOV.UK - Guidance for Trustees | Visit website |
| GOV.UK - Charity trustee welcome pack | Charity Trustee Welcome Pack - As a new charity trustee, this guide from the Charity Commission will help you in your role. It can also be used by existing trustees to refresh knowledge and skills. | Visit website |
| GOV.UK - Charity Trustee: What's Involved (CC3a) | GOV.UK - Guidance for Trustees | Visit website |
| GOV.UK - Conflicts of interest: a guide for charity trustees | Conflicts of Interest: A guide for Charity Trustees is available to help them understand the basics, and the Charity Commission expects them to deal with conflicts of interest facing them or their charity. | Visit website |
| Legal structures at a glance | A table showing the different legal structures | Download |
| NCVO - Implementing the Charity Governance Code - A Toolkit for Micro-Charities | More manageable approach to the Charity Governance Code for micro-charities. Contains many useful links to helpful items. | Visit website |
| NCVO Board Appraisal Toolkit | Board Appraisal Toolkit: Self Assessment for Chairs & Trustees from NCVO | Visit website |
| Overview of the Trustee Recruitment Process | Reach Volunteering guidance | Visit website |
| Pilotlight | Strategic business support for Charities | Visit website |
| The Essential Trustee 6 main duties | Brief overview of the role of Trustees | Download |
| The Essential Trustee Guide | Information on what you need to know and do as a Trustee | Visit website |
| Wave strategy ideas | Multi-year strategy ideas | Download |
| What is a CIO? | The advantages and disadvantages of CIO's | Download |
| Writing a Terms of reference | Explains what should be included in a groups terms of reference | Download |