Governance

Ethical Property Foundation: How to Conduct a Risk Assessment of your Charity Building

Leading UK property advice charity, the Ethical Property Foundation is delighted to offer this FREE property webinar for voluntary orgs.

As the UK’s leading property advice charity for the voluntary sector, the Ethical Property Foundation (EPF) are offering a free property webinar to help charities and voluntary organisations manage risk effectively.

This engaging and informative session will provide practical guidance to help ensure your building is safe for everyone who uses it.

What You'll Learn

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Charity Digital: From spreadsheets to strategy – How charity finance teams are getting out of the weeds

Charity finance teams are under increasing pressure to deliver accurate reporting, manage complex funding structures, support strategic decision-making, and meet growing governance expectations, often with limited resources and heavily manual processes.

Our (Charity Digital) upcoming webinar from finance experts, AccountsIQ, explores how charities can reduce operational complexity, improve financial visibility, and move from reactive reporting to more strategic finance leadership.

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Community Matters: Governance – What's the Right Structure?

There is a wide range of not-for-profit structures ranging from registered charities to community interest companies. They all have specific benefits, and some drawbacks. This session will look at the main structures, and explain the benefits and issues associated with each of them.

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Trustee Roles & Responsibilities

This session will help you gain a better understanding of the role and responsibilities of being a trustee. It is an ideal introduction for new trustees, or as a refresher for existing board members.  

Ever wondered what it is that trustees should do? 

This training explains good governance within charities, managing risks, charity reporting requirements and how to ensure your charity is meeting its public benefit requirements. 

The session covers: 

St. Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green North, Manchester, M12 6FZ

Safeguarding training course for trustees

This course is designed to provide trustees with safeguarding awareness, understanding of their roles and responsibilities and confidence to promote best safeguarding practice within their organisations.

This course provides a detailed understanding of the safeguarding duties and responsibilities for Trustees.

The course content includes:

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Castlefield: Charity Summer Seminar 2026

This seminar will take a deeper look at key issues in charity management. You can expect practical insights, realworld examples and guidance designed to help trustees and senior leaders navigate today’s financial and governance challenges. You’ll also have the chance to network with speakers and fellow charity professionals.

Further details on the speaker line‑up and session topics will be announced soon.

Who should attend

House of Books & Friends, 81 King Street, Manchester, M2 4AH