Information to help you decide what steps you and your charity or voluntary organisation need to take in light of the spread of the covid-19 virus.
Supporting staff, volunteers and beneficiaries and keeping safe
Information on protecting and supporting the people working in your charity or voluntary organisation, and those who use your services during the coronavirus outbreak.
- Prevention and social distancing
- Risk assessment
- Returning to work safely
- Supporting NHS Test and Trace
- Continuing your operation
- Cleaning, handwashing and hygiene procedures
- Use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Supporting beneficiaries/service users
- Supporting staff and volunteers to work from home
- Employees rights and sick leave entitlement
- Annual leave and furlough
- Supporting members of communities facing discrimination
- Taking an inclusive approach to covid-19
- Guidance for trustees
- Webinars on protecting staff, volunteers and beneficiaries
Contingency planning and financial implications
What you need to do to prepare for the potential impacts of coronavirus on your charity or voluntary organisation's operations and finances.
- Developing a contingency plan and your insurance
- Financial management and solvency
- Consider merger and collaboration
- Coronavirus job retention scheme (furloughing)
- The job support scheme
- Coronavirus business interruption loan scheme (CBILS)
- Bounce back loan
- Charity funding from government
- Other funding opportunities for charities
- Webinars on contingency planning and finance
How charities are helping
Coronavirus guidance and resources produced by other organisations in the voluntary sector.
Involving volunteers
Advice on involving and managing volunteers during the coronavirus outbreak.
- How volunteers can make a difference
- Redirecting volunteers if you cannot take on any more
- How volunteers are affected by the lockdown
- Volunteers in key worker roles
- Coronavirus testing for volunteers
- Volunteering if showing symptoms or clinically vulnerable
- Furlough and volunteering
- Insurance and volunteering
- Volunteer expenses
- Paying for goods or services
- Safeguarding for volunteer managers
- Safeguarding for informal volunteer-led groups
- DBS checks and volunteers
- Data protection
- Recognising and reporting scams
- Additional help finding and supporting volunteers
- Webinars on involving volunteers
Further information and resources
General and sector-specific guidance on coronavirus from government and other organisations.
