People, HR and employment

This section contains practical information and resources to support voluntary and community organisations to become better employers.

HR and employment practice resources available include:

• HRBank: A collection of free sample policies and job descriptions, donated by voluntary and community organisations. These are available for you to download and tailor to your own needs.
• HR 'How to' Guides on a variety of topics, including conducting a 360 degree appraisal and avoiding redundancies in a recession.
• Case studies from a wide range of voluntary and community organisations, discussing a variety of employment practice issues so you can learn from the experiences of others.
• Training Needs Analysis: a complete step by step guide to understanding the training needs of your organisation.
• Good Guide to Employment templates and factsheets: Based on the popular publication, these are intended to help you with the development of policies, job descriptions and good diversity practice and many more.
• Workforce Wheel: This is an outcomes tool which aims to help organisations understand where they want to get to as they grow into their into their full potential.
• Voluntary sector workforce: facts and figures.

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New - The UK Voluntary Sector Workforce Almanac 2011

This easy-to-use and accessible publication, produced in partnership between NCVO, Skills - Third Sector and TSRC, draws upon a decade’s worth of authoritative data to explore how the sector’s workforce has changed between 2001 and 2010.

Sixteen themes explore the main traits of voluntary sector employment, covering its size and characteristics, the nature of working conditions within the sector, and the levels of skills and training across the sector.

• Download your free copy (PDF 495KB) or contact us for a hard copy.
• Access the tables (Excel 5.7MB) behind the Workforce Almanac.
• Fast facts (PDF 30KB) on the voluntary sector workforce.
• Download your free postcard (PDF 160KB) of key statistics.