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The Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2024/25
Best sellerWith this guide, you'll have access to key information on over 2,000 grant-makers, each with...
It’s a Battle on the Board
Best sellerWouldn't charity governance be so much easier if it wasn't for all of your fellow...
The Guide to Major Trusts 2023/24
Best sellerIf you need to find grants for your charity or project, this guide is your...
Charity Policies and Procedures Templates
Robust policies and procedures should empower staff and increase consistency and fairness across an organisation.
Grants Fundraising
Growing your income from grant-makers is a recipe for charity fundraising success.
Key Guides: The Charity Trustee’s Handbook
Best sellerThis guide is ideal for anyone thinking of becoming a charity trustee, or who is...
Fundraising
The Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2024/25
Best sellerWith this guide, you'll have access to key information on over 2,000 grant-makers, each with...
Making the Ask
If you're a fundraiser or social entrepreneur keen to secure large gift for any kind...
The Complete Fundraising Handbook
Best sellerIf you are a fundraiser or someone who needs to raise money for your organisation...
Fundraising Strategy
Do you lurch from one fundraising campaign to the next, or are you able to...
The Guide to Major Trusts 2023/24
Best sellerIf you need to find grants for your charity or project, this guide is your...
Corporate Fundraising and Partnerships
This book offers all the advice you need to help your charity create successful and...
Management & leadership
Speed Read: Inductions
The success of your organisation depends on your staff and how quickly you can get...
Advising Philanthropists: Principles and practice
Earning money is one thing, but giving it away purposefully and with consideration is one...
Speed Read: Vision, Mission, Objectives
What are vision, mission and objectives? Not a trick question but as the distinctions are...
Modern Grantmaking
Giving away money for a living - what could be better? But doing it well...
How to become a charity trustee: A practical guide
Want to boost your career, skills and happiness? Becoming a charity trustee could do all...
It's Murder in Management
There will be days when you feel like murdering your bosses, your team or your...
Personal development
Speed Read: Confidence at Work
Pick yourself up, dust yourself down and move forwards with increased confidence.
Practical Project Management – for voluntary organisations
With so many elements to consider in project management, it is easy for things to...
It’s a Battle on the Board
Best sellerWouldn't charity governance be so much easier if it wasn't for all of your fellow...
It's Murder in Management
There will be days when you feel like murdering your bosses, your team or your...
Speed Read: Writing for Work
Whatever your charity role, writing memos, letters, minutes and even weighty reports is likely to...
Speed Read: Time Management
Do you never seem to have enough time? Are you struggling to meet deadlines, working...
Marketing & communications
Speed Read: Managing Your Inbox
Inbox management can be the bane of your working life. If you are not careful,...
Speed Read: Networking
Networking can fill you with trepidation if you are new to it, or complacency if...
Speed Read: Vision, Mission, Objectives
What are vision, mission and objectives? Not a trick question but as the distinctions are...
Speed Read: Storytelling for Impact
Charities have vital stories to tell. This practical guide will help you find, write and...
Change for Better
At last... a book that brings behavioural science out of the academic halls and supermarket...
Speed Read: Writing for the Web
When readers can leave your website with just one click, writing effectively online is one...
Finance & law
Investing for Charities
Charity investment is a responsible business - judging how much to spend and how much...
Key Guides: Data Protection – for voluntary organisations
The fully revised and updated 4th edition for current data regulation and law for voluntary...
Key Guides: Charitable Incorporated Organisations
Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) are now the most popular form for establishing new charities –...
Speed Read: Age Discrimination
Even if you think you're already doing the right things, this book gives good practice...
Key Guides: The Charity Treasurer’s Handbook
Steering a charity's finances can be one of the most challenging roles you'll face in...
Income to Impact
Financial Stewardship of Public Sector and Not-for-profit Organisations
Governance
From Here to Diversity: A practical guide to recruiting Black and Asian charity trustees
Your charity's board of trustees could be missing out on a considerable pool of talent,...
How to become a charity trustee: A practical guide
Want to boost your career, skills and happiness? Becoming a charity trustee could do all...
It’s a Battle on the Board
Best sellerWouldn't charity governance be so much easier if it wasn't for all of your fellow...
Key Guides: The Board Secretary’s Handbook
This handbook tells you what a board secretary is and why you need one. It...
Key Guides: Effective School Governance
What is a governor? How do you become one? And how can you make a...
Managing Without Profit
Best sellerThe only book out there that covers - in one volume - management, governance and...
Policy, campaigns & research
Speed Read: Campaigning
This book is a short introduction to campaigning aimed at those who have little or...
Grants for Good: Exploring local authority grant-making to the VCSE sector
Grants for Good: Exploring local authority grant-making to the VCSE sector by the Directory of...
What Have Charities Ever Done For Us?
Charities at their best are the conscience of society and benefit most people at some...
