Resilience learning directory

Training areas: Strategic leadership, governance, managing change, organisational culture, people management, financial resilience
Offers: Workshops, leadership support, events and peer learning
Format: Online and in-person
Cost: Training is available for a fee, with some free webinars. Membership price: £149 to £469, depending on the organisation’s size.
Best suited to: Chief executives, aspiring chief executives, chairs and senior charity leaders

ACEVO provides leadership development, practical workshops and peer support for charity chief executives and senior leaders. Its offer covers organisational change, governance, financial resilience, collaborative leadership, organisational culture and the relationship between chief executives and boards.

Particularly relevant for:

• Collaborative leadership
• Decision making at board level
• Income-generating mindsets
• Strategic AI leadership

Explore ACEVO’s events calendar.

Training areas: Fundraising, income diversification, strategic leadership, governance, communications
Offers: Training courses, events, qualifications and on-demand learning
Format: Online, in person and on demand
Cost: Varies; member and non-member rates apply
Best suited to: Fundraisers, fundraising leaders, trustees and charity leaders responsible for income generation

The Chartered Institute of Fundraising provides specialist professional development for fundraisers and charity leaders. Its offer ranges from introductory courses and on-demand learning to specialist fundraising training, leadership development and professional qualifications.

Particularly relevant for:

• Introduction to fundraising
• The roles and responsibilities of trustees
• The power of storytelling for fundraisers
• Community fundraising training
• Events fundraising training
• Legacy fundraising training
• Trust and statutory fundraising learning
• Fundraising leadership programmes and qualifications

Explore the Chartered Institute of Fundraising’s learning opportunities.

Training areas: Governance, strategic leadership, operational resilience, data and evidence, people management, EDI, financial resilience
Offers: Training courses and events
Format: Primarily online
Cost: Varies. Members may receive discounted rates, and some events are free
Best suited to: Trustees, governance leads, new and developing managers, and staff responsible for strategy, data or organisational development

NCVO provides practical voluntary-sector training covering leadership, governance, organisational culture, people management, impact, fundraising and strategic decision-making.

Particularly relevant for:

• Volunteer managements
• Data protection
• EDI in charities
• Fundraising strategies
• Financial governance for trustees

Explore NCVO’s training and events.

Training areas: Communications, digital skills, ethical storytelling, campaigning and influence
Offer: Training courses, multi-session programmes and practical resources
Format: Primarily online
Cost: Tiered according to charity size, with standard courses starting at £48
Best suited to: Communications and fundraising staff, charity leaders, and organisations communicating about sensitive issues, health inequalities or lived experience

Media Trust connects media organisations with charities and under-represented talent to empower the third sector and advance media representation. It designs and delivers practical training for charities so they can communicate more effectively, support their communities and drive social change.

Particularly relevant for:

• Email marketing
• Media interviews
• Copywriting for fundraising
• Using tools such as Canva, LinkedIn, GEO
• Ethical communications
• Creating social media strategies 

Explore Media Trust.

Training areas: Digital strategy, AI and emerging technologies, data and analytics, cyber security, digital fundraising, marketing and communications, Microsoft Suite, and organisational digital transformation.
Offers: Short online courses, webinars, virtual events, toolkits and learning resources.
Format: Primarily online, with most courses delivered as live virtual sessions.
Cost: Varies by course. Many Academy courses are priced around £95-£99 + VAT. Some programmes and funded learning opportunities may be available at no cost.
Best suited to: Charity leaders, trustees, operational staff, communications and fundraising teams, digital teams, data and insight teams, and organisations looking to build their digital capability.

Charity Digital provides practical training designed to help charities build digital confidence and capability. Its offer focuses on applying technology to address real organisational challenges and help organisations work more effectively. Learning is designed to be practical, accessible and immediately applicable within charity settings.

Particularly relevant for:

• Digital strategy and transformation
• Artificial intelligence and responsible AI adoption
• Data analytics and measurement, like Google Analytics
• Cyber security and digital resilience
• Digital fundraising and funding applications
• Microsoft 365 and workplace productivity
• Financial management and reporting

Explore Charity Digital training.

The Institute of Health Equity is one of the leading UK centres examining health inequalities and the social determinants of health. Its resource library includes Marmot Reviews, local and regional health equity reports, datasets, toolsets and place-based evidence on the social determinants of health and practical action to reduce health inequalities.

Particularly relevant for:

• Understanding the wider determinants of health
• Place-based and community approaches
• Employment, income, housing and health
• Developing evidence-based influencing messages
• Charities working with local authorities, NHS bodies and partnerships

Explore the Institute of Health Equity’s resources.

The Health Foundation provides a highly accessible evidence hub on health inequalities, their underlying causes and how health outcomes differ by place, deprivation and population group. It includes data and analysis organised around trends, geography, deprivation, ethnicity and disability. It also publishes wider research and practical resources on the social and economic factors that shape health.

Particularly relevant for:

• Accessible statistics and visual evidence
• Understanding geographical inequalities
• Developing funding applications or cases for support
• Influencing commissioners and policymakers
• Connecting charity activity to the wider determinants of health

Explore the Health Foundation’s health inequalities’ resources.

The NIHR School for Public Health Research has a dedicated health inequalities research collection covering the social drivers of health, experiences of marginalised communities, local public-health systems and the impact of policies and interventions. Its Health Inequalities

Programme places particular emphasis on co-producing research with disadvantaged and marginalised communities and developing equity-sensitive tools and methods.

Particularly relevant for:

• Accessing current public-health research
• Understanding what interventions have been evaluated
• Community participation and co-production
• Policy and systems change
• Building research partnerships

Explore the NIHR’s health inequalities research collection.

FOR-EQUITY provides tools and resources to help researchers and organisations apply an intersectional equity lens to evidence, interventions and evaluation. It is particularly relevant if charities want to understand whether their research, data or evaluation approach adequately captures inequalities between and within population groups.

Particularly relevant for:

• Designing equitable research and evaluation
• Applying an intersectional lens
• Identifying who may be excluded from data
• Considering how outcomes differ between groups
• Involving marginalised communities in evidence generation

Explore FOR-EQUITY’s resources.

Based at the University of Oxford, the Migration Observatory provides independent analysis of migration and asylum in the UK. Its briefings cover asylum applications and decisions, resettlement, routes to the UK, the costs of the asylum system, employment and integration outcomes, and comparisons with other European countries.

Particularly relevant for:

• Understanding trends in asylum and refugee resettlement
• Accessing clearly explained statistics
• Providing context for strategies and funding applications
• Developing evidence-based communications
• Informing policy, campaigning and influencing work

Explore the Migration Observatory’s asylum research. 

The Refugee Council publishes accessible research and briefings on the experiences of refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK. Its recent resources cover safe and legal routes, asylum reform, age assessment, refugee integration, the move-on period, housing, destitution and barriers faced by newly recognised refugees.

Particularly relevant for:

• Understanding current asylum policy developments
• Accessing evidence about the experiences of refugees
• Informing service design and organisational strategy
• Supporting campaigning and influencing
• Developing funding applications and cases for support

Explore the Refugee Council’s statistics and research.

The NRPF Network provides specialist guidance on how immigration status affects entitlement to services and support. Its resources cover options for people with no recourse to public funds, safeguarding practice, local-authority responsibilities and policy changes affecting destitute families, adults and care leavers.

Particularly relevant for:

• Supporting people at risk of destitution
• Developing referral and safeguarding processes
• Working effectively with local authorities
• Keeping up to date with changes to asylum and NRPF policy

Explore the NRPF Network’s resources.

Solace provides specialist learning on supporting refugee and people seeking asylum- mental health, trauma and emotional wellbeing. Its offer also supports organisations to develop trauma-aware practice and strengthen the support available from frontline teams.

Particularly relevant for:

• Better understanding how to support refugee and people seeking asylum
• Webinars on supporting resettled children and families
• Bespoke trauma-aware training
• Multilingual psychoeducational resources

Explore Solace’s training.