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Building financial resilience and stability

Guidance and toolkits on how to develop a financially resilient and sustainable organisation.

Embrace Finance’s Ins and Outs when it comes to building financial sustainability

  • Audience: Charities but relevant to other non-profit organisations.

Blog outlining key things small charities should and shouldn’t when building their financial sustainability.

Lloyds Bank Foundation’s organisational resilience guide

  • Audience: Charities and non-profit organisations.

Comprehensive guidance and programme, which organisations can work through in their own time, on the approach and principles of organisational resilience and how to apply it.

Arts Council’s business planning guidance

  • Audience: All non-profit organisations.

Guidance around developing a business plan, including the role that finances play in developing a sustainable business.

Charity Excellence Framework’s resource hub

  • Audience: Charities.

Resource hub including a range of finance and wider charity resources, including 10 toolkits on financial sustainability and crisis management. (Scroll down to the subheading, Checklists & Planning Tools.)

The School for Social Entrepreneurs’ Resource Hub

  • Audience: Social enterprises and social entrepreneurs.

Resources and guidance around setting up, growing and sustaining a social enterprise. The School for Social Entrepreneurs also offer a range of workshops (on a sliding cost scale) and programmes.

Good Finance’s social investment guidance

  • Audience: Charities and social enterprises.

Guidance on what social investment is and how charities and social enterprises can access it. It includes a map of social investors, funders and advisers in the UK.