HR
People ops, policies and governance — equitable pay, conflict, recruitment and safeguarding.
211 of 211 resources
- Chaynresource
A guide for lesbian and bisexual women who have been affected by sexual violence by The Lesbian & Gay Foundation [external resource]
A guide from The Lesbian & Gay Foundation, hosted by Chayn, helping lesbian and bisexual women affected by sexual violence to find appropriate support.
View details → - NCVOguide
A safeguarding approach to grant making
NCVO guide helping grant-making organisations embed safeguarding considerations across the full grant-making process, from applications to grantholder relationships.
View details → - Chaynresource
A self-help guide for survivors of rape and sexual assault
A Chayn booklet for survivors of rape and sexual assault covering common psychological and emotional reactions, written primarily for a UK audience.
View details → - NCVOguide
About these safeguarding pages
NCVO's introductory guide explaining the scope, authorship, and funding of its collaborative safeguarding pages for voluntary organisations in England.
View details → - Chaynresource
Abused women with no recourse to public funds (UK)
A Chayn guide for survivors of domestic abuse in the UK who are on a spousal or other visa with 'no recourse to public funds' conditions.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Accessibility Action Plan (Recruitment + Retention)
A fillable action-plan template helping organisations track readiness to recruit and retain learning disabled or neurodivergent managers, covering pre-recruitment through to culture.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Accountability agreement
A RadHR accountability agreement policy to support organisations in implementing fair, transparent accountability practices across hiring, pay, and operations.
View details → - Chaynresource
After: Surviving sexual assault
A podcast by Catriona Molton in which survivors of sexual assault and abuse share their experiences and coping strategies, published by Chayn.
View details → - Chaynresource
Assertive communication on Soul Medicine
A Chayn Soul Medicine resource explaining different communication styles and practical exercises to build confidence in assertive communication.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Associates/freelance contract agreement
A ready-to-use freelance/associate contract from RadHR covering pay, cancellation, confidentiality, IP, and termination for independent contractors.
View details → - Chaynresource
Avere controllo sulla propria salute
A brief Italian-language Chayn overview helping individuals manage sexual health and contraception, with signposting to a fuller companion guide.
View details → - Chaynresource
BBC: Taking back control after sexual abuse
A Chayn-curated BBC resource following two women who reclaim bodily autonomy through dance after experiencing sexual abuse.
View details → - Chaynresource
Bustle: Women tell us why they didn’t report their assault [external resource]
A collection of video stories in which women share their personal reasons for not reporting sexual assault, surfaced by Chayn.
View details → - Chaynresource
Capire conti bancari e documenti d’identità
A Chayn guide in Italian offering practical information to help people achieve financial independence, covering bank accounts and identity documents.
View details → - Chaynresource
Capire il diritto civile: separazione e divorzio
An introductory Italian-language guide by Chayn covering civil law on separation and divorce, including financial and child custody considerations.
View details → - Chaynresource
Capire il diritto penale
A Chayn guide (in Italian) explaining criminal law for survivors considering reporting a partner for abuse.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Carer’s leave
A RadHR carer's leave policy covering employees' statutory and extended rights to take time off for dependants in emergencies or care crises.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Carer’s, compassionate bereavement and parental leave
CAAT's combined policy covering carer's leave (up to four weeks paid), compassionate bereavement leave, and parental leave — practical guidance for small civil-society organisations.
View details → - NCVOguide
Choosing staff, volunteers and trustees
An NCVO guide on embedding safeguarding throughout recruitment of staff, volunteers, and trustees — from role descriptions and interviews to criminal record checks and induction.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Co-op member / volunteer agreements
A dual-agreement policy from RadHR setting out distinct rights and responsibilities for co-op members and volunteers at a youth work co-operative (Voice of Youth).
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Conflict system
A RadHR step-by-step conflict resolution policy for co-operatives, guiding teams from direct peer conversation through to external support and, if necessary, dissolution.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Conflict, grievance and accountability policy & process
A RadHR policy guiding small collectives through non-punitive, stepped conflict resolution — from peer intervention to formal grievance — grounded in accountability rather than punishment.
View details → - Chaynresource
Considerare di uscire da una relazione violenta
A Chayn guide (in Italian) offering practical information for people unsure about leaving an abusive relationship but feeling at risk.
View details → - Chaynresource
Conversations with Carolyn Spring: Building skills for recovery after trauma [external resource]
A Chayn-linked podcast by Carolyn Spring exploring how to build skills for managing emotions as part of trauma recovery.
View details → - Chaynresource
Conversations with Carolyn Spring: Trauma is feeling unsafe [external resource]
A Chayn podcast episode with Carolyn Spring exploring what survivors should focus on at the start of their trauma recovery journey.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Core team policy
RadHR's Core Team policy sets out who qualifies for membership of its primary decision-making body and how that group relates to other workers and community members.
View details → - Chaynresource
Cosa fare in caso di emergenza
A Chayn guide in Italian offering safety advice and precautions for people experiencing domestic violence who fear for their lives.
View details → - Chaynresource
Creating boundaries on Bloom
A Chayn Bloom resource covering boundary types, identifying toxic behaviour, and recognising emotional needs in relationships.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Culture of care & accountability
A RadHR policy for feminist organisations setting out a non-punitive culture of care and accountability, with a three-level procedure for addressing harm.
View details → - Chaynresource
DIY Online Safety guide
A practical, trauma-informed guide from Chayn and EndTAB to help people experiencing digital harm feel safer online and find support.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Decision-making
A RadHR template policy guiding small organisations through consensus-based decision-making, covering who decides what and how to run the process.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Decision-making policy & process
RadHR's internal decision-making policy sets out consensus-based principles and tiered processes (mandate, consent, consensus) for a small part-time team and directors.
View details → - Chaynresource
Denunciare alla polizia
A Chayn guide (in Italian) helping domestic abuse survivors make an informed decision about whether to report abuse to the police.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Direct action leave
A short policy granting employees up to 6 pro-rated days of paid leave per year to take direct action on the climate emergency, such as attending or preparing for demonstrations.
View details → - Chaynresource
Diverse forme di violenza domestica
A Chayn guide introducing the different forms of domestic violence and abuse, and how to address them — aimed at those seeking to understand or respond to abuse.
View details → - Chaynresource
Domestic abuse as a transgender man
A Chayn guide addressing how domestic abuse manifests for transgender men and challenging misconceptions about gender and abuse.
View details → - Chaynresource
Domestic abuse as a transgender woman
A Chayn guide exploring the specific dynamics of domestic abuse as experienced by transgender women, highlighting how these differ from or overlap with abuse in non-trans relationships.
View details → - Chaynresource
Domestic abuse in same-sex female relationships
A Chayn guide identifying warning signs of domestic abuse specific to same-sex female relationships, challenging the misconception that abuse requires a male perpetrator.
View details → - Chaynresource
Domestic abuse in same-sex male relationships
A Chayn guide to recognising the signs and dynamics of domestic abuse specifically within same-sex male relationships.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Dress code
An anti-dress-code policy from RadHR that invites all staff, volunteers, and board members to dress authentically, explicitly rejecting capitalist, patriarchal, and white supremacist norms around appearance.
View details → - Chaynresource
Effetti della violenza su bambinə
A Chayn resource (in Italian) outlining the various ways domestic violence can affect children.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Employee health and wellbeing policy
A values-led employee health and wellbeing policy from RadHR covering disclosure, access, workplace stress, and external triggers for small organisations and freelancers.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Employment contract template
An employment contract template from Spectra Arts CIC, covering flexible and values-led terms including unlimited leave, mental health days, and a mutual trial period — useful for small progressive organisations.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Equality and diversity
A concise, practice-focused equality and diversity policy from Voice of Youth (RadHR), covering staff, volunteers, and young people in Hackney.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Equitable recruitment policy
A RadHR equitable recruitment policy from Ort Gallery that guides small organisations through designing roles, advertising, interviewing, and decision-making to reduce barriers for racialised people and disabled applicants.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Equitable wage policy
A values-led equitable wage policy for collective organisations, setting a shared base rate with percentage uplifts for financial need, dependants, marginalisation, disability, and housing insecurity.
View details → - Chaynresource
Essere più sicura online
A Chayn guide (in Italian) offering practical, immediately usable tips on staying safer online, covering social media privacy, browser protection, and passwords.
View details → - Chaynresource
Essere preoccupati/e per un'amica
A Chayn guide (in Italian) offering advice on how to support a friend, relative, or colleague you suspect may be experiencing difficulties in their relationship.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Ethical fundraising policy
A values-led ethical fundraising policy from RadHR (via Ort Gallery) that sets out which funders to accept, avoid, or exclude, and how to consult communities transparently.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Ethical procurement policy
An ethical procurement policy from Adfree Cities covering purchasing standards across offices, travel, food, banking, and contractors, aligned with climate, human rights, and anti-oppression values.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Exit checklist
A RadHR exit checklist (adapted from PIRC) to guide organisations through the offboarding process when an employee leaves.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Family friendly umbrella policy
A RadHR umbrella policy providing gender-neutral, trans-inclusive principles and statutory/enhanced entitlements across all family-friendly leave types for small charities and community organisations.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Family leave
A comprehensive, gender-neutral and trans-inclusive family leave policy template from RadHR covering adoption, assisted conception, parental, paternity/second parent leave, surrogacy, and pregnancy rights for charity and civil-society staff.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Family leave & reproductive rights
A comprehensive family leave and reproductive rights policy from Ort Gallery (via RadHR) covering enhanced maternity, partner, adoption, and shared parental leave with an explicit intersectional and inclusive approach.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Financial health, contingency & reserves
A RadHR policy from PIRC setting out financial health thresholds, tiered contingency measures, and reserves-building targets for a small civil-society organisation.
View details → - Chaynresource
Finding a job in India
A Chayn guide on finding employment in India to support financial independence, particularly for those considering leaving a partner.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Flat structure decision making & prioritisation processes
A RadHR policy setting out a two-tier (advice-based and consent-based) decision-making framework and a structured prioritisation process for flat-structure organisations.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Flat structure learning & development approach
A RadHR flat-structure policy giving each team member a £500 annual learning & development budget with full autonomy over how it is spent.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Flat structure mutual support and feedback
A RadHR policy outlining a peer "Buddy Circle" and mutual feedback process designed for flat-structure organisations without managerial hierarchies.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Flat structure overview
A detailed overview of PIRC's flat management structure, covering rotating Core Groups, delivery roles, meeting cycles, and staff support systems for organisations seeking non-hierarchical models.
View details → - Chaynresource
From report to court: A handbook for adult survivors of sexual violence
A Chayn handbook guiding adult survivors of sexual violence through the legal process in England and Wales, from reporting to police through to trial and sentencing.
View details → - Chaynresource
Gestire i propri risparmi
A Chayn guide (in Italian) offering ideas to help people in abusive relationships save money independently in preparation for leaving.
View details → - Chaynresource
Getting out of abusive situations in India
A Chayn guide helping people in India understand their options for safely leaving an abusive relationship.
View details → - NCVOguide
Getting people involved
An NCVO guide helping charities and community organisations involve staff and volunteers in safeguarding, raise awareness, and create a culture where people feel safe to speak up.
View details → - NCVOguide
Getting started with DBS checks
NCVO guide covering how charities and voluntary organisations should approach DBS checks for staff, volunteers, and trustees.
View details → - NCVOguide
Getting started with safeguarding
An NCVO introductory guide to safeguarding for charities, covering legal duties, Charity Commission expectations, overseas work, and responding to immediate concerns.
View details → - Chaynresource
Grounding Exercises
A Chayn guide offering sensory grounding exercises to help people return to the present moment when feeling distressed, overwhelmed, or disconnected.
View details → - Chaynresource
Guida alla solidarietà di vicinato
An Italian-language guide by Chayn on how neighbours can recognise and safely support women experiencing domestic violence in their building or community.
View details → - Chaynresource
Guida su salute sessuale e contraccezione
A Chayn guide in Italian covering sexual health and contraception, including contraceptive methods, abortion, STIs, and where to access support services.
View details → - NCVOguide
Guides for organisations carrying out specific activities
An NCVO guide covering safeguarding responsibilities for grant-making organisations and those planning or commissioning safeguarding training.
View details → - NCVOguide
Guides for people in certain roles
NCVO role-specific safeguarding guides covering trustees, DSLs, CEOs, HR, volunteer managers, and more — free to all.
View details → - NCVOguide
Guides for specific aspects of safeguarding
NCVO guide covering key safeguarding practicalities for charities, including DBS checks, whistleblowing, and safeguarding language.
View details → - Chaynresource
How domestic violence affects children in Pakistan
A Chayn guide explaining how domestic violence affects children in Pakistan, covering the ways children become aware of abuse and its impact on them.
View details → - Chaynresource
How to apply for asylum in the UK on Soul Medicine
A Chayn guide helping asylum seekers understand their rights and navigate UK asylum procedures, with or without legal representation.
View details → - Chaynresource
How to be safe online on Soul Medicine
A beginner-friendly Chayn course covering practical, non-technical ways to improve online safety and protect against stalkers.
View details → - Chaynresource
How to build your own domestic abuse case without a lawyer
A step-by-step guide by Chayn helping survivors of domestic abuse collect and present evidence of abuse without legal representation.
View details → - Chaynresource
How to cope with stress on Soul Medicine
A Chayn Soul Medicine guide helping individuals identify the causes of stress and take steps to protect themselves against current and future stress.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to create a collaborative system for keeping track of how work is going
A RadHR guide offering practical, non-hierarchical approaches to supervision, probationary periods, annual reviews, and feedback for collectively accountable workplaces.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to create a policy which supports capability rather than judging performance
A RadHR guide helping organisations design compassionate, legally fair capability policies that support staff to flourish rather than punish underperformance.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to create non-punitive grievance procedures which deepen our understanding of each other
A RadHR guide for progressive and non-hierarchical organisations on building grievance procedures grounded in mutual support, accountability, and values rather than punishment.
View details → - Chaynresource
How to deal with abuse in Pakistan
A Chayn guide explaining how abuse manifests in Pakistani families and what steps can be taken to address it.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to design a supportive holiday policy that balances individual with collective needs
A RadHR guide helping small charities and civil-society organisations design holiday policies that are legally compliant, supportive, and grounded in collective accountability.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to have a legally-compliant ‘disciplinary’ policy that doesn’t shame, blame or punish
A RadHR guide helping charities and non-hierarchical organisations design legally-compliant disciplinary procedures rooted in collective accountability rather than punishment.
View details → - Chaynresource
How to manage your money on Soul Medicine
A Chayn Soul Medicine guide helping individuals manage money, avoid debt, and budget effectively to support financial independence.
View details → - Chaynresource
How to open a bank account on Soul Medicine
A Chayn guide that simplifies the process of opening a bank account, aimed at people who find banking complicated.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to recruit new people without reproducing systemic inequality
A RadHR guide from People Support Co-op covering equitable, anti-oppressive recruitment practices for civil society organisations, from planning through to induction.
View details → - Chaynresource
How to regain your confidence after trauma on Soul Medicine
A Chayn Soul Medicine guide offering practical steps to rebuild self-worth and confidence after experiencing trauma.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to set up a simple Participatory Action Research Project for collective policy writing
A step-by-step guide from RadHR on using Participatory Action Research (PAR) to involve workers collectively in writing organisational policies.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to write a compassionate, supportive, solidarity-based sickness policy
A RadHR guide to writing a compassionate, solidarity-based sickness policy that centres care and supports disabled and unwell workers.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to write a fairer, more equitable pay policy
A RadHR guide helping organisations design fairer, more equitable pay policies, covering legal requirements, common pitfalls, and collective design approaches.
View details → - RadHRguide
How to write a supportive policy for other kinds of leave that respond to our real life needs
A RadHR guide for civil-society organisations on writing radical, values-led 'other leave' policies that go beyond statutory minimums to support workers' whole lives.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
How we make decisions
A RadHR policy from Autonomic co-op setting out a three-tier collective decision-making framework (Small, Medium, Large) for worker co-operatives and horizontal organisations.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Induction checklist
A RadHR induction checklist (Google Sheet) to help small charities and community organisations structure the onboarding process for new staff or volunteers.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Induction policy for new staff
A structured six-month induction policy for new staff, setting out meeting milestones, responsibilities, and employment terms during the induction period.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Internal hiring/promotion
A RadHR policy setting out eligibility criteria and process steps for internal promotion and role transitions in small organisations.
View details → - Chaynresource
It’s your choice: a judgement-free guide to abortion
A judgement-free guide by Chayn covering abortion options, practical processes, and emotional aspects to help people make informed choices.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Keeping young people safe from abuse
A safeguarding policy from Voice of Youth using a traffic-light system to guide staff and volunteers on keeping children and young people safe from abuse.
View details → - Chaynresource
Law and divorce in India
A Chayn guide explaining the types of divorce available in India and how the Indian court system works for those going through separation.
View details → - Chaynresource
Law and divorce in Pakistan
A Chayn guide explaining the laws and different types of divorce available in Pakistan, aimed at those navigating relationship breakdown.
View details → - NCVOguide
Law, rules and duties
An NCVO guide outlining the key laws and statutory duties governing safeguarding for voluntary organisations, covering children, adults at risk, domestic abuse, and counter-terrorism.
View details → - Chaynresource
Less than 2 percent
A Chayn podcast exploring survivor experiences of reporting sexual violence and how UK systems are failing them — with global relevance.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Living our values
A values policy for a small global team, defining five core values — Trust, Passion, Care, Togetherness, and Equality — with concrete habits and communication norms for each.
View details → - RadHRguide
Living systems for thriving groups: supporting you to organise collaboratively
A free RadHR course helping collaborative groups design explicit, agreed systems for decision-making, conflict, care, resource distribution, and more.
View details → - NCVOguide
Local and national support
An NCVO guide directing small charities and community groups to local and national safeguarding support, including training, helplines, consultancy, and self-assessment tools.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Long COVID/chronic illness
A RadHR policy giving small charities a structured, disability-justice-informed framework for supporting staff with Long COVID or chronic illness beyond standard sick leave.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Maintenance meeting
A structured meeting template from RadHR for teams to regularly check in on wellbeing, capacity, and interpersonal tensions in a non-punitive, care-centred way.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Maintenance meeting agenda
A RadHR template agenda for team "maintenance meetings" designed to surface interpersonal dynamics, wellbeing, and workload issues in a non-punitive, structured way.
View details → - Chaynresource
Managing anxiety on Bloom
A Chayn Bloom resource offering short and long-term techniques for managing anxiety, including grounding, journaling, and somatic care.
View details → - Chaynresource
Manipulation is abuse
A Chayn guide helping readers identify manipulative behaviour and situations, and understand how to respond to them.
View details → - Chaynresource
Marital rights and abuse in Pakistan
A Chayn guide covering forced marriages and their legal and religious standing in Pakistan, aimed at those seeking to understand marital rights and abuse.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Member volunteer induction process
A RadHR policy setting out the step-by-step induction process for new member volunteers joining the Class Work Project, from initial contact through to ongoing check-ins.
View details → - Chaynresource
My little book of coping methods by The Peach Diaries with Roisin Ross [external resource]
A practical booklet of everyday coping techniques to support survivors of abuse in their healing journey, produced by The Peach Diaries with Roisin Ross.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
New child leave policy
Tipping Point's new child leave policy offering up to a year off, 6 months full pay, and paid miscarriage leave for all eligible team members.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
New parent policies
A RadHR model policy from Tripod covering enhanced parental leave and pay for main and second parents, including shared parental leave, adoption, and inclusive family structures.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Non-punitive disciplinary procedure
A non-punitive disciplinary policy for worker co-ops that prioritises facilitated conversations, improvement plans, and collective accountability over punitive action.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Paid work for co-operative members
A workers co-operative pay policy setting out how VOY co-op members access paid work, hourly rates, invoicing, and absence cover on a self-employed basis.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Parent and carer staff support
A RadHR gender-neutral policy supporting staff who are parents or carers, covering enhanced parental leave pay, carer leave, a wage subsidy, flexible working, and nursery deposit payments.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Parental leave
RadHR's parental leave policy covering unpaid leave entitlements, notice requirements, and return-to-work rights for employees with children under 18.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Pay policy
A flat-structure pay policy from Adfree Cities (designed with RadHR) that sets a single base rate for all workers and applies percentage uplifts for dependants, disability, time served, and other equity factors.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Pay policy
RadHR's flat-rate pay policy with equity-based uplifts for dependents, disability, marginalisation, city living, and precarious work, designed for small radical organisations.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Pay review process
A step-by-step pay review process from RadHR covering staff baseline wages, freelance rates, and equitable pay principles for collective governance organisations.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Payment & salary
Ort Gallery's pay and salary policy sets out a care-centred, equity-focused approach to calculating staff, freelancer, and volunteer pay, including a needs-based uplift and unlimited sick days.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Peer reflection & supervision
Tripod's peer reflection and supervision policy replacing traditional annual reviews with a values-led, non-hierarchical system of mutual accountability and support.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Peer review policy & procedure
A non-hierarchical peer review policy and procedure from RadHR, guiding co-ops and small organisations through employee-led performance reflection and action planning.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Peer-to-peer feedback & reflection process
A four-stage peer-to-peer feedback and reflection policy from RadHR, guiding collectives through self-evaluation, written feedback, and structured feedback meetings.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Performance management process
A cooperative-style, staff-led performance management policy for small organisations, covering informal support through to formal review, dismissal, and appeal.
View details → - NCVOguide
Planning safeguarding training
NCVO guide helping organisations plan safeguarding training, from identifying requirements to choosing providers or designing in-house programmes.
View details → - NCVOguide
Policies and procedures
NCVO guide covering the key safeguarding documents every voluntary sector organisation needs, with links to templates and tools for creating them.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Privacy and cookie policy
A model privacy and cookie policy from Open Rights Group covering how supporter, member, and website visitor data is collected, used, and protected — useful for small charities handling personal data.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Privacy policy
RadHR's privacy policy explaining how personal data is collected, used, protected, and retained for website visitors, members, and community forum users.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Protest leave
A RadHR template policy granting employees paid protest leave to attend demonstrations and civil action, separate from holiday or sick leave.
View details → - RadHRguide
Radical safeguarding: a social justice workbook for safeguarding practitioners
A RadHR workbook helping safeguarding practitioners adopt a social-justice, root-cause approach to child safety, especially in school settings.
View details → - Chaynresource
Reclaiming resilience in your trauma story on Bloom
A Chayn Bloom course using narrative therapy and journaling to help survivors identify triggers, understand trauma, rebuild self-esteem, and unlearn shame.
View details → - NCVOguide
Recognise, respond and report
An NCVO guide helping charities and voluntary organisations prepare staff and volunteers to recognise, respond to, and report safeguarding concerns for children and adults at risk.
View details → - Chaynresource
Recovering from toxic and abusive relationships
A Chayn course exploring abusive tactics, coercive control, trauma science, and the impact of abuse on relationships and coping — aimed at people recovering from toxic or abusive relationships.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Recruitment procedure
A detailed recruitment procedure policy for CAAT covering every stage from staffing review to job offer, with strong equal opportunities and positive action provisions — useful for small charities building fair hiring processes.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Reduced work week trial policy
A trial policy from RadHR reducing the standard work week from 40 to 32 hours (Monday–Thursday) at full pay, for use as a template by organisations considering a four-day week.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Redundancy procedure
A detailed redundancy procedure from RadHR (based on CAAT's policy) guiding small charities through every stage of a fair, consultative redundancy process as a last resort.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Reparative rest leave
A paid reparative rest leave policy offering staff with lived experience of inequality up to three additional days off per year, outside their holiday allocation.
View details → - Chaynresource
Ricevere supporto legale gratuito
A Chayn guide (in Italian) helping individuals find free legal support if they choose to pursue legal action.
View details → - Chaynresource
Ricevere supporto se non sei cittadina italiana
A Chayn guide in Italian covering legal support options for non-Italian nationals experiencing domestic abuse, including those without residency status or whose permit is tied to a partner.
View details → - NCVOguide
Roles and responsibilities
NCVO guide outlining key safeguarding roles — including the designated safeguarding lead and trustees — to help charities build safer organisations.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Rules for how we work together
A comprehensive operational rulebook for the Nanny Solidarity Network, covering governance, membership, decision-making, pay, and staff policies for a migrant-led worker collective.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Sabbatical policy
RadHR's sabbatical policy sets out eligibility, pay arrangements, and approval processes for Core Team members seeking extended leave for any personal purpose.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding and the law Find information and recommendations for ensuring your safeguarding follows the law
An NCVO guide covering the legal framework for safeguarding in charities, including duties for trustees, children, adults at risk, and whistleblowers.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding as a director of operations
An NCVO guide helping directors of operations understand and manage their safeguarding responsibilities at an operational level.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding day-to-day
An NCVO guide helping charities embed safeguarding into daily operations, covering supervision, reflection sessions, codes of conduct, and staff reporting.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding for HR managers
An NCVO guide for HR managers on embedding safeguarding practices across the full employee lifecycle, from recruitment to exit.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding for chief executives
An NCVO guide helping charity chief executives embed safeguarding across their organisation, from trustee governance to managing reputational risks.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding for designated safeguarding leads
NCVO guide covering the responsibilities, skills, and practical duties of a designated safeguarding lead in a voluntary organisation.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding for fundraising managers
An NCVO guide for fundraising managers on embedding safeguarding across different types of fundraising activity.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding for marketing and communications managers
An NCVO guide helping marketing and communications managers understand their safeguarding responsibilities and manage related risks in their work.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding for trustees
An NCVO guide helping trustees understand their safeguarding responsibilities, including working with a lead trustee and CEO to maintain good practice.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding for volunteer managers
An NCVO guide for volunteer managers covering safeguarding responsibilities across the full volunteer lifecycle, from recruitment to ending the relationship.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Safeguarding policy
A transformative-justice-informed adult safeguarding policy for small collectives, covering roles, disclosures, capacity, confidentiality, and support for both those harmed and those causing harm.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Safeguarding policy
A RadHR safeguarding policy for small, non-hierarchical organisations that centres anti-oppressive values, adult self-determination, and person-led responses to harm.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Safeguarding policy & procedure
A radical safeguarding policy and procedure for a community arts gallery, covering staff, volunteers, children, and adults through inclusive, non-punitive and consent-based practices.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Safeguarding policy & procedure
A trauma-informed, agency-centred safeguarding policy and procedure from RadHR, designed for small charities working with children and adults at risk.
View details → - NCVOguide
Safeguarding training
NCVO guide to safeguarding training options for charities, covering how to find, plan, and commission the right training for your organisation.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Safer spaces
A RadHR safer spaces policy template for salons, setting out behavioural expectations for staff, clients, and visitors to foster a respectful, inclusive environment.
View details → - Chaynresource
Saving money in Pakistan
A Chayn guide on practical ways to save money in Pakistan, aimed at individuals regardless of employment status.
View details → - Chaynresource
Scegliere possibilità abitative
A practical Italian-language guide by Chayn on housing options for people leaving an abusive partner, including emergency situations.
View details → - Chaynresource
Sexual health and contraception in Pakistan
A Chayn guide busting common myths about contraception and sexual health in Pakistan, with signposting to in-person care services.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Shared parental leave
CAAT's shared parental leave policy covering statutory rights, occupational pay entitlements, notification requirements, and return-to-work conditions for eligible employees.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Sick leave agreement
A RadHR sick leave policy for freelance collectives covering pooled sick days, short-term contractor entitlements, and a trust-based approach to self and carer absence.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Sickness and incapacity policy and procedures
CAAT's sickness and incapacity policy setting out reporting requirements, occupational sick pay (full salary for up to 26 weeks), income protection insurance, and step-by-step procedures for long-term and repeated short-term absence.
View details → - NCVOguide
Six steps to successful safeguarding
An NCVO guide walking charities through six key safeguarding areas aligned to Charity Commission expectations, with links to practical tools and templates.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Socially just pay policy
A detailed socially just pay policy from RadHR/PIRC setting out a flat core salary with need-based uplifts, helping small charities design equitable wage structures.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Socially just waging system
A detailed socially just waging policy from Cooperation Town that replaces hierarchy-based pay with a core rate adjusted for inherited wealth, dependants, housing costs, and financial emergencies.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Socially just waging system
A detailed socially just waging policy from PLATFORM that replaces hierarchical pay with a core rate adjusted for length of service, inherited wealth, dependants, and pensions.
View details → - Chaynresource
Society, patriarchy and sexual trauma on Bloom
A Chayn Bloom resource helping survivors identify victim-blaming myths, explore their impact on healing, and understand how patriarchal structures enable sexual violence.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Staff absence planning
A RadHR policy setting out how staff, supervisors, and teams should plan and share cover responsibilities when a colleague is absent.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Staff review procedure
A peer-led staff review procedure from CAAT showing how a non-hierarchical organisation runs structured four-monthly reviews and annual governance oversight meetings.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Staff support & performance improvement procedure
A non-punitive staff support and performance improvement procedure for small charities, covering peer review, enhanced support programmes, and a formal SSG-led process.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Staff travel
RadHR's staff travel policy covering TOIL eligibility, working-time rules for business travel, training course travel, and commuting arrangements for Tripod staff.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Staff undertaking training courses or volunteering roles
A RadHR/CAAT policy covering paid and unpaid leave, fee support, and application processes for staff undertaking training courses or volunteering roles.
View details → - NCVOguide
Steps to a safer organisation
An NCVO guide walking charities through the key steps to embed safeguarding across their organisation, from everyday practice to recruitment and incident response.
View details → - NCVOguide
Supporting others to do safeguarding well
An NCVO guide helping umbrella bodies and membership organisations support their members to develop robust safeguarding practice.
View details → - Chaynresource
Survivor stories: Daniela's survivor story [external resource]
A first-person survivor story from Daniela, an immigrant worker, about her personal journey and how she became an advocate for other women, published by Chayn.
View details → - Chaynresource
Survivor stories: “I was raped and blamed myself. I’m not ashamed anymore” - The Guardian
A first-person account by Sheeva Weil of surviving rape, the emotional journey through self-blame, and reclaiming freedom from shame.
View details → - Chaynresource
Survivors of sexual violence: your rights at a glance in the UK
A Chayn guide summarising survivors' rights and what to expect from the UK criminal justice system following sexual violence.
View details → - NCVOguide
Talking about safeguarding
An NCVO guide explaining why safeguarding language matters and providing a glossary of common safeguarding terminology from A to Z.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Team dynamics & tension shifting meeting
A RadHR policy and structured meeting guide for collectives to regularly surface, discuss, and resolve team tensions whilst celebrating one another, held every six weeks for 2–2.5 hours.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Team-wide mentoring
A RadHR policy setting out how PIRC provides all team members with monthly external mentoring sessions, including appraisals, anti-oppression check-ins, and confidentiality rules.
View details → - Chaynresource
Telling Someone What Happened
A Chayn guide supporting survivors in deciding whether, how, and who to tell about their experience of abuse or harm.
View details → - Chaynresource
Terminare una relazione violenta in maniera sicura
An Italian-language guide by Chayn on how to safely leave an abusive relationship, including how to plan an escape from a shared home.
View details → - Chaynresource
The Guardian: "I blamed myself for being sexually assaulted" [external resource]
A Guardian first-person account of a sexual assault survivor's experience of self-blame and their journey towards overcoming it.
View details → - Chaynresource
The Independent: How Assault Changes your dating and sex life [external resource]
A video of personal accounts exploring how sexual assault affects survivors' dating and sex lives, shared by Chayn.
View details → - Chaynresource
The courage to be me by Nina Burrowes
A comic book by Nina Burrowes, published by Chayn, telling a story of courage, self-compassion, and hope for survivors of sexual abuse.
View details → - Chaynresource
The good friend guide
A short Chayn guide offering practical advice on how to support a loved one who is in an abusive relationship.
View details → - NCVOguide
Training and support for safeguarding
NCVO guide signposting charities and community groups to safeguarding training and local/national support organisations.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Trans equity policy
A comprehensive trans equity policy from The Kite Trust covering workplace transition support, facilities, anti-discrimination, and HR procedures for trans staff and volunteers.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Travel policy
A RadHR travel and accommodation policy for small collectives covering low-carbon transport, reimbursement rates, per diems, ally costs, and counting travel days as work time.
View details → - NCVOguide
Understanding the risks
An NCVO guide introducing different types of harm and abuse to help charities and community organisations begin managing safeguarding risks.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Unlimited Paid Time Off policy
A RadHR unlimited paid time off policy for full-time exempt staff, combining all leave types with guided expectations to prevent under-use.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Unlimited paid holiday policy
RadHR's unlimited paid holiday policy for salaried staff, setting out a minimum 28-days-pro-rata baseline, approval processes, and roll-over rules.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Use of AI (artificial intelligence) tools & software
A flexible AI use policy from RadHR (written for Adfree Cities) helping small charity staff make accountable, transparent, and mission-aligned decisions about AI tools.
View details → - Chaynresource
Violenza domestica
A Chayn resource in Italian providing information to help people recognise domestic violence.
View details → - Chaynresource
Violenza e luoghi comuni
An Italian-language Chayn resource debunking common myths and stereotypes about violence against women, explaining why challenging them matters.
View details → - Chaynresource
Violenza nelle relazioni lesbiche
A Chayn guide (in Italian) explaining the forms and dynamics of domestic abuse that can occur in lesbian relationships.
View details → - Chaynresource
Violenza psicologica
An Italian-language Chayn guide explaining psychological abuse — the behaviours, dynamics, and tactics an abusive partner uses to undermine a victim's dignity, identity, self-esteem, and autonomy.
View details → - Chaynresource
Violenza su donne con disabilità
A Chayn guide (in Italian) on recognising and challenging gender-based violence against women with disabilities.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Ways of working policy
RadHR's internal ways of working policy covering team culture, flexible and sustainable working practices, hours management, and mutual support for all workers.
View details → - NCVOguide
What is safeguarding?
NCVO introductory guide explaining what safeguarding is, why it matters, and the responsibilities all charities and voluntary organisations hold.
View details → - NCVOguide
What to do if you have immediate concerns
An NCVO guide on immediate steps to take when you suspect abuse of a child or adult, including who to contact and relevant helpline numbers.
View details → - NCVOguide
Whistleblowing
An NCVO guide explaining whistleblowing for voluntary organisations, covering relevant policies, deciding whether to raise a concern, and how different concerns can be reported.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Worker rights and wellbeing
A RadHR worker rights and wellbeing policy covering sickness, parental leave, carer's leave, and overwork for small, values-led organisations.
View details → - NCVOguide
Working overseas
An NCVO guide on safeguarding requirements for charities and civil-society organisations working overseas, covering key standards, FCDO expectations, and specialist resources.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
Workshop & consultancy criteria / costings policy
RadHR's internal policy setting out criteria, decision-making steps, and income-based sliding-scale pricing for workshops and consultancy with external organisations.
View details → - Chaynresource
Worried about someone in India?
A Chayn quick guide on how to support a friend and their children who may be experiencing abuse in India.
View details → - RadHRpolicy
‘Who do we accept money from’ policy
A values-based funder acceptance policy from Gastivists (via RadHR) setting out which funders to exclude, avoid, or actively seek, with an internal due-diligence process.
View details →