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Sectors · Charities & non-profit

Cademi for charities & non-profit.

Stretch a limited training budget across paid staff and volunteers - and still walk into a funder review or inspection with the evidence already in hand.

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Some of the teams we work with in charities & non-profit

The reality on the ground

We know what this workforce looks like.

A mixed workforce

Paid staff, sessional workers and volunteers often need the same safeguarding and data-protection training - on very different schedules and contracts.

Budgets under scrutiny

Every pound is accountable to funders and trustees. Training has to demonstrably work, not just happen.

Evidence on demand

Funders, the Charity Commission and inspectors can ask for proof at any time. The record has to be ready, not reconstructed.

One board, your whole obligation

The training charities & non-profit actually run on.

Accredited courses, external certificates and your own inductions on a single board - colour-coded by where each one comes from.

Charities & Non-Profit · training matrix

8 requirements

Safeguarding (adults & children)

Annual

Accredited

Due soon

Data protection & GDPR

Annual

Accredited

Current

Equality, diversity & inclusion

Annual

Accredited

Current

Health & safety

Annual

Accredited

Current

Lone & remote working

On role change

Accredited

Current

Fire safety

Annual

Accredited

Current

DBS / role-specific checks

On hire

External cert

Expiring

Funder-specific training

Varies

Custom built

Current

The shape of this workforce

Built for how charities & non-profit actually work.

Paid staff + volunteers

Multiple funded programmes

Dispersed sites & home-working

Tight, accountable budgets

Headcount, completion and turnover figures appear here once your data is connected.

Accredited library

External certificate

Course Creator

Illustrative · product view

Where each course comes from

Three sources. One library.

Everything this sector trains on falls into three buckets - and Cademi manages all three in the same place, with the same reporting around them.

Accredited library

Ready-made, accredited courses from the 950+ library - accredited by recognised UK bodies (RoSPA, IOSH, CPD, IIRSM).

Safeguarding (adults & children)Data protection & GDPREquality, diversity & inclusionHealth & safetyLone & remote workingFire safety

External certificate

Certificates earned elsewhere - uploaded to the person record with automatic expiry tracking and renewal alerts.

DBS / role-specific checks

Course Creator

The bits unique to you - inductions, brand and programme training - built in the Course Creator at no add-on cost.

Funder-specific training

How Cademi handles it

The same platform, pointed at your problem.

One platform for staff and volunteers

Run paid teams and volunteer cohorts side by side with role-based access - volunteers see only what their role needs, on their own schedule.

Admin that runs itself

Auto-enrolment, retake reminders and escalations chase completions in the background, so a small central team isn't doing it by hand.

Learn anywhere, even offline

Responsive on any device with an offline mode - for outreach workers, home-workers and volunteers who never sit at a desk.

Funder-ready reporting

Export participation and compliance by programme, site or individual in seconds - audit-ready evidence for trustees and funders.

Proof in this sector

Teams like yours, already running Cademi.

CASE STUDY

Brothers of Charity Services Scotland

Discover how personalised learning replaced generic training to boost staff growth and confidence in care settings.

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CASE STUDY

Challengers

Learn how a children’s charity streamlined training across varied roles without sacrificing personal development.

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Deployment

Full deployment within 2–4 weeks.

Support

Dedicated CSM. 24/7 technical support.

Common questions

What teams in this sector ask.

Licensing for your specific mix of paid staff and volunteers is best confirmed with the team - talk to us about pricing. The platform itself treats volunteers as first-class learners with their own role-based access, separate from paid staff, so you scope exactly what each group sees.

Yes. Compliance and participation reports export by programme, site, team or individual in seconds, as PDF or CSV. The numbers reconcile to the underlying certificates rather than a dashboard cache, so they hold up when someone asks to see the source.

Yes - schedule in-person sessions, capture attendance and issue certificates inside the same person record as the e-learning, so one report covers digital and face-to-face training together.

Yes. The Course Creator builds your own courses from video, documents or SCORM at no add-on cost, living in the same library as the 950+ accredited courses with the same reporting around them.

Full deployment is typically 2–4 weeks. You also keep prior training history - completions can be migrated at kickoff so nobody starts from zero. (Source: cademi.io/compare.)

Cademi is GDPR-compliant and Cyber Essentials certified, with compliance content accredited by recognised UK bodies. Sensitive learner and HR data is handled accordingly. (Source: cademi.io.)