For volunteer-led UK charities & CICs · Aligned with the 2025 Charity Governance Code

Your charity's policy folder,
made coherent enough for review.

Sixteen coherent, cross-referenced, dated governance policy templates — safeguarding, data protection, financial controls, the Code's technology/AI policy example and more — written in plain English and designed to speed up trustee, adviser or funder due-diligence review after your board adapts and adopts them.

30-day money-back guarantee · Instant download · Editable Word/Docs · 16 policies + selector + due-diligence summary

16cross-referenced policies
~10 questionstell you the ones you actually need
2025Governance Code policy examples built in
1 page"policies in place" due-diligence summary

The problem, in your words

"A funder asked for our current policies. We had files from different places, with different dates and no adoption log."

You're a trustee or CIC director who never signed up to be a governance officer. There's no budget for a full governance review before the deadline. So you did what many small teams do: downloaded free templates one at a time from three different sites, with different tone, different dates, and gaps you only spot when it's too late.

The pain isn't writing one policy. It's needing a coherent, current, dated suite — fast — with no one to build it and real money on the line.

Why now

The 2025 Charity Governance Code gives boards a clearer policy-and-evidence checklist to work from.

The 2025 Charity Governance Code is voluntary, not a regulatory requirement. But it is a practical benchmark for trustee discussion, behaviours, processes and evidence. Under managing resources and risks, the Code's suggested evidence includes financial procedures, a reserves policy, staff/volunteer policies, a technology and AI tools policy, whistleblowing, a risk framework/register and social media policy.

Different funders, insurers and partners ask for different evidence. This pack helps you produce a coherent, dated starting suite and a one-page policy status register, then makes the review/adoption work explicit so you can answer those questions without pretending a template equals compliance.

Honest urgency: the real pressure is your next trustee meeting, renewal, funder check or governance review. No fake timers; the page uses a £79 launch price until the operator changes it.

The solution

Not "more templates." A coherent system you can deploy the same day.

Free libraries give you standalone files that don't reference each other and require you to guess what you need. This pack is different on three things that actually matter to a funder:

01

Coherent & cross-referenced

All 16 policies share one structure and reference each other, so your suite reads as a single system — not 16 mismatched downloads.

02

Current & dated

Aligned with the 2025 Code's suggested policy/evidence examples, with a technology/AI policy included, and an annual checklist so each adopted policy has a review rhythm.

03

Funder-ready packaging

A "policies you actually need" selector plus a one-page policies-in-place summary — the exact artefacts a funder's due-diligence asks for.

How it works — in an afternoon

  1. 1 Run the free Gap Finder (or the written selector) to see which policies you actually need.
  2. 2 Paste each into Word/Google Docs, add your name & logo, fill the bracketed blanks.
  3. 3 Have the right person review safeguarding, data & finance; adopt at a board meeting; record the date.
  4. 4 Fill the one-page summary so you can show what exists, when it was reviewed, and what still needs work.

What's inside

Everything a small charity or CIC needs to govern well.

The 16-policy suite (editable)

  • Safeguarding (children & adults at risk)
  • Data Protection & Privacy (UK GDPR)
  • Conflicts of Interest (+ register)
  • Financial Controls & Authorisation
  • Reserves
  • Risk Management (+ register)
  • Trustee Code of Conduct
  • Complaints
  • Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
  • Volunteer
  • Health & Safety
  • Whistleblowing (Speaking Up)
  • Trustee Expenses & Payments
  • Social Media & Communications
  • Investment (ethical/responsible)
  • AI & Technology Use — included because the 2025 Code lists technology and AI tools policy evidence

The tools that make it easier to review and evidence

  • "Policies You Actually Need" selector — ~10 questions, your tailored list
  • "Policies in Place" one-pager — summarise policy status for a bid, insurer or trustee review
  • Annual Governance & Compliance Checklist — the keep-it-current rhythm
  • Trustee Induction Pack — get new trustees productive fast
  • Working registers (CSV) — policy adoption, risk, conflicts of interest
  • Sources & disclaimer file — every official source cited so you can verify
Delivered as clean, copy-into-Word/Docs files. Every blank is a [BRACKETED FIELD]; every assumption is a labelled EDITABLE DEFAULT you change to fit your charity.

The offer

A structured starting suite for less than a formal governance review.

The 16-policy cross-referenced suite (core)£130
"Policies You Actually Need" selector£49
Funder-ready "Policies in Place" one-pager£49
NEW — AI & Technology Use policy£59
Trustee induction + 3 working registers£69
Annual Governance & Compliance Checklist£39
Total value£395

Launch price

£79

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One-off payment · instant download · 30-day money-back guarantee

Optional after purchase: £29/yr "Always-Current" updates · or a £39 "Core Four" lite pack if you're not ready for the full suite.

30-day
money-back

If it doesn't save you the afternoon, you pay nothing.

Use the full pack for 30 days. If it does not give you a clearer, more coherent starting suite faster than assembling it yourself, email us for a full, no-questions refund — and keep your free Gap Finder results either way. We only want to be paid if this genuinely saves you time.

This is a contractual promise on top of your statutory rights. At checkout you'll consent to instant access and acknowledge this waives the statutory 14-day cancellation right for digital downloads (UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013) — the guarantee above is more generous than that floor.

Questions

Honest answers before you buy.

Is this legal advice? Can I just adopt it and be compliant?

No. This is a pack of editable templates and plain-English guidance — not legal, regulated, accountancy or financial advice, and it does not guarantee compliance with any regulator or funder. Every policy requires qualified human review and formal board adoption before it goes live. High-stakes policies (safeguarding, data protection, financial controls, trustee payments) should be checked by someone with relevant expertise. The pack is designed to make that review faster and cheaper — not to replace it.

How is this different from the free templates from NCVO or Charity Excellence?

Free libraries are genuinely useful, but they're standalone files you download one at a time, often with mismatched tone and dates and no tool to tell you which may be relevant to your activities. This pack is one coherent, cross-referenced, dated suite with a needs-selector and a policy-status one-pager. You're paying for coherence, currency and packaging, not for "having templates."

I'm a CIC, not a registered charity. Does it apply?

Most of these policies apply to CICs as good practice and for funder due-diligence. The main difference is your regulator (Companies House / the CIC Regulator, plus the CIC34 report) rather than the Charity Commission. The pack flags where to swap regulator references, and the selector asks about your legal form.

What format are the files in?

Clean text files designed to paste straight into Microsoft Word or Google Docs and brand with your logo. Registers are CSV (open in Excel/Sheets). No locked PDFs, no software to install. Every blank is a clearly marked field and every default is labelled so you know what to change.

How do you keep it current?

The pack is dated and ships with an annual checklist so you re-date and review each policy yourself. There's an optional £29/yr "Always-Current" updates subscription that re-issues policies and adds new ones when material regulator or Code changes land — but staying current is ultimately the charity's own duty, which is why the checklist is built in.

Was this written by AI?

Yes — it was drafted with AI assistance and then structured against named public sources (all cited in the pack). We disclose this openly. Because AI can make mistakes, the human-review-before-use requirement isn't a footnote — it's the core safeguard baked into how the pack is meant to be used.

What if it's not right for us?

30-day no-questions money-back guarantee. If it does not save you the work, email us within 30 days for a full refund and keep your free Gap Finder results.