Bespoke training
Practical, expert-led courses for trusts, schools, local authorities, dioceses and other organisations, tailored to your particular training needs.
Bespoke courses: Expert-led training designed around your organisation, your people and your governance priorities.
Your organisation: We shape each session around the needs, knowledge and experience of your audience.
Your outcomes: Build confidence, strengthen decision-making and improve governance impact.
Academy trusts
Maintained schools
Local authorities
Dioceses
Tailored to your needs
Customised training to meet your particular challenges and learning needs.
Expert-led sessions
Learn with experienced trainers with real-world expertise.
Immediate impact
Practical 'how to' learning that builds key competencies and strengthens governance effectiveness.
Delivered your way
Online or in-person, scheduled when convenient for participants.
Customising delivery for you
Flexible, focused courses, sessions and programmes with delivery options to suit the needs of your organisation and participants.
Practical learning approach
Our training encourages active engagement, helping participants to build a better understanding of how to fulfil their roles effectively, through discussion, collaboration and typical governance scenarios.
- Break-out rooms
- Real-world scenarios
- Skills practice
- Q&As
- Typical challenges
- Tried and tested approaches and solutions
- Takeaway toolkits
Training tailored to your organisation
Every board, trust and governance team has different priorities. We tailor every session around your context, challenges and development goals to deliver practical learning with immediate impact.
Training course search and filter
Explore example bespoke training topics
These examples show the types of training we regularly deliver. All training can be customised around your organisation's priorities, challenges and development needs.
Get a tailored quote
Our pricing is based on several factors, including the course duration, delivery mode and amount of design involved. We can explain how this works and provide a quote based on your specific training needs.
Reduce the cost
If you have a smaller governing board, you can share a training session with another governing board or trust and split the cost.
Find the right training option for you
Every organisation has different priorities and budgets. Whether you need a focused session or a fully tailored programme, we'll work with you to find the right approach for your organisation and provide a quote based on your requirements.
Learn from expert governance trainers
Every NGA training session is facilitated by an expert governance trainer from our NGA Consultant team. Practical insights, real world examples and tried and tested approaches help participants explore what effective practice looks like and turn learning into confident action.
Meet our training expertsPrefer to join a scheduled course?
Explore our programme of live online training delivered on scheduled dates. Choose from a range of practical governance courses and book your place online.
Group training enquiry
Browse our FAQs to help you find answers to some of the most common questions we receive.
If you do not find the answer in the FAQs, please use this form to submit an enquiry.
This form is for making enquiries about commissioning specific training courses tailored and timetabled for your organisation and the participants; this may be for a single board or a group of individuals your organisation supports. We also offer a range of scheduled courses on which places can be booked online.
Please state the session topic(s) you want to enquire. As soon as we receive your completed form, we will arrange a short call for you and our Head of Training to make sure that the session you booked meets your requirements.