Sectors / Charities & Non-Profit
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.
The reality on the ground
We know what this workforce looks like.
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A mixed workforce
Paid staff, sessional workers and volunteers often need the same safeguarding and data-protection training — on very different schedules and contracts.
02
Budgets under scrutiny
Every pound is accountable to funders and trustees. Training has to demonstrably work, not just happen.
03
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
Annual
Due soon
Annual
Current
Annual
Current
Annual
Current
On role change
Current
Annual
Current
On hire
Expiring
Varies
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
cademi.io · /why-choose-us
External certificate
Certificates earned elsewhere — uploaded to the person record with automatic expiry tracking and renewal alerts.
DBS / role-specific checks
cademi.io · External certificates
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
cademi.io · Course Creator
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.
Multi-site management
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.
Automated admin
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.
Mobile learning
Funder-ready reporting
Export participation and compliance by programme, site or individual in seconds — audit-ready evidence for trustees and funders.
Live reporting
Proof in this sector
Teams like yours, already running Cademi.
Deployment
Full deployment within 2–4 weeks.
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Support
Dedicated CSM. 24/7 technical support.
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Common questions
What teams in this sector ask.
Can volunteers use Cademi without paid-staff licensing costs?+
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.
Will it produce the evidence a funder or the Charity Commission asks for?+
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.
We deliver some training in person. Can that be tracked too?+
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.
Can we bring our own induction and programme-specific courses?+
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.
How long does it take to get started?+
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.)
Is our data safe?+
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.)