Leadership

Leading for Legacy – Greater Manchester Civic Leadership Programme 2026

Are you passionate about making a difference in your community and shaping the future of Greater Manchester?

Do you want to build your confidence, broaden your civic leadership skills and step into roles where you can influence real change?

Leading for Legacy is a fully funded civic and social leadership programme created for people from diverse backgrounds including Global Majority communities across Greater Manchester, who are ready to lead with purpose and create lasting impact.

Media Trust: How to Write Volunteer Opportunities That Inspire Action

Learn how to create standout volunteer roles, attract skilled professionals on our platform and inspire them to support your cause.

Struggling to find the right volunteers? Learn how to create volunteer roles that grab attention, attract skilled professionals on the Volunteer Platform, and inspire them to support your cause.

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NPC: Everyone's Environment – Women & girls report launch

This online launch will mark the upcoming publication of How Will the Climate and Nature Crises Impact Women and Girls? – a major new briefing produced jointly by the WEN (Women’s Environmental Network) and NPC’s Everyone’s Environment programme. The session will introduce key findings from the report and explore what they mean for women’s and environmental organisations, funders, policymakers and practitioners across the UK.

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Community Matters: Reserves – What they are and how to calculate them

Reserves are a critical element when building small charity resilience. However, they are often, for very valid reasons, miscalculated. 

This session will look at Why we hold reserves, how to calculate reserves, what a good reserves policy looks like and how to report on reserves.

Online

NCVO: Safeguarding essentials in charities

All voluntary organisations have a duty to keep the people they work with safe from harm. This course introduces the basics of safeguarding within a charity context in England and highlights effective safeguarding practice

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Safeguarding is the range of measures to protect people within an organisation, or those they come into contact with, from abuse and maltreatment of any kind.

This course introduces:

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NCVO: Charity finance skills

This course will help people with little or no financial background to feel confident in managing day-to-day charity finance

Event details

This course will explore some basic tools to help you:

  • make better financial decisions for your organisation
  • monitor resources
  • communicate effectively with finance professionals.

By the end of the training, you'll: 

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