Charity training your staff and volunteers will love

Safeguarding and compliance in microlessons of about 5 minutes.Volunteers sign in with a mobile number.Monitor everyone from one dashboard, with records ready for trustees and funders.

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The problem

Why traditional charity training falls short

Trustees, funders and regulators expect people to know what to do, not just click through a course.
Most training can't show that.

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Dry, overlong and hard to monitor

Long, dry modules are hard to finish around frontline work and volunteer shifts, and hard for a small team to monitor.

Volunteers give hours, not days

A volunteer doing three or four hours a week can't sit through a full course library. Many have no work email or desk.

Safeguarding that doesn't fit your charity

Generic courses don't match how your charity works. People click through, then hesitate when they need to act on a real concern.

Every pound scrutinized

Trustees and funders question every cost. Separate tools for compliance and development are hard to justify.

One platform

Compliance that sticks, and skills that grow your impact

Keep staff and volunteers safe and compliant, and build the skills your charity needs next.

Complete charity compliance

Role-specific, bite-sized training that keeps pace with changing rules.

  • Safeguarding, GDPR, fraud and health and safety
  • 70+ charity-ready courses, all accredited
  • Dashboard, reports and automatic reminders, so you monitor without chasing
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Beyond compliance: upskilling

Personalized learning paths, aligned to each role and career goal.

  • Leadership and manager training
  • AI-powered recommendations
  • 20,000+ microlessons from 200+ expert instructors
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Engagement that works

A TikTok-style feed that drives 6-10x higher engagement than a legacy LMS.

  • Points, streaks and leaderboards
  • Staff and volunteers on any phone, with mobile number sign-in
  • Quizzes, certificates and real-time progress
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Zero admin

Automate compliance admin and focus on your cause

Spend less time chasing training and more time on the people you support. 5Mins handles enrollment, reminders and reporting for you.

  • Automate enrollment and annual refreshers by role, region or cohort
  • Nudge people by email, Slack and push before due dates
  • See who's completed, at risk or overdue in real time
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Recurring enrollments re-assigning an annual compliance refresher automatically

Enroll and re-enroll staff and volunteers automatically, based on their role and region.

Policy briefings

Turn your policies into training people actually enjoy

Safeguarding procedures, codes of conduct, volunteer handbooks and policy updates change often. AI Studio turns them into trackable microlessons for staff and volunteers.

  • Convert policies and procedures into microlessons
  • Publish in 20+ languages at the same time
  • Keep audit-ready records of who completed what
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Sensitive conversations

Practice the conversations that matter most

Knowing the safeguarding policy is one thing. Acting on it when someone raises a concern is another. Roleplays let staff and volunteers rehearse difficult conversations in private, with a score and coaching feedback after every session.

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Use cases

How 5Mins transforms charity training

Safeguarding refreshers

Re-enroll staff and volunteers automatically every 12 months, with reminders before every due date.

Policy and law changes

Roll out training on new rules fast, like the October 2026 changes to sexual harassment law.

Ready when trustees ask

Every enrollment kept with full history, plus an audit log and one-click reports for trustees, funders and regulators.

Annual declarations

Run conflicts of interest and code of conduct sign-offs on a recurring schedule, with every response kept in Learning Records.

Animation 5a: Safeguarding refresher rollout
Why switch

5Mins vs traditional training

What changes when charity training fits into 5 minutes a day.

 5MinsTraditional training
Content formatTikTok-style microlessonsLong 1-hour courses
Device experienceMobile first, with iOS and Android appsDesktop first
Time to competenceDays to weeksWeeks to months
EngagementGamified, with 6-10x higher engagementLow, with drop-off after 15 minutes
CustomizationReady-made courses plus your own policiesOff-the-shelf only
Admin burdenAutomated and audit-readyManual and fragmented
RetentionHigh, reinforced with quizzes and practicePoor, with compliance fatigue
ScalabilityPersonalized by role and regionOne-size-fits-all
70+charity-ready courses, ready to assign
6-10xhigher engagement than a legacy LMS
3-5xfaster onboarding for new staff and volunteers
Customer stories

Why HR and compliance leaders choose 5Mins

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50%+

less time spent on compliance training

2 → 1platforms, with UK and US teams on one
46+ daylearning streaks

With 104 employees, a lot of providers saw us as too small to bother with. 5Mins gives us the same level of service as much larger companies, and far better value for money.

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Gary StevensHR Manager, MBD
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Free download

Download our UK compliance catalogue

Built for UK organizations, covering GDPR, RIDDOR, Martyn's Law, employment law and the regulations your teams need day to day. Share it with your trustees or senior leadership team.

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Your questions answered

Frequently asked questions

Everything charity HR, L&D and compliance teams need to know about training with 5Mins.

What compliance training does 5Mins offer for charities?

5Mins covers safeguarding adults and children, GDPR and data protection, fraud and anti-bribery, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, whistleblowing, modern slavery, equality and diversity, harassment prevention, mental health and health and safety. That's 70+ charity-ready courses inside a library of 500+ accredited compliance courses, all kept up to date as regulations change, with no manual updates from your team.

Can volunteers use 5Mins without a work email?

Yes. Volunteers and frontline staff can sign in with their mobile number and your organization's access code, so nobody needs a work email or a desk. Microlessons run on the 5Mins iOS and Android apps or in any browser, and most take about 5 minutes.

How does 5Mins help charities evidence training for trustees, funders and regulators?

Every enrollment is kept with its full history, including for people who have left, and re-enrollments are archived instead of overwritten. The Compliance Dashboard shows who has completed, who is at risk and who is overdue, and you can download reports or the full learning record whenever a trustee, funder or regulator asks.

What completion rates does 5Mins achieve for charity training?

95%+. Traditional platforms often see completion under 5%. 5Mins gets there because every course, from safeguarding to fire safety, is split into microlessons people finish on their phone between shifts, instead of blocking out an afternoon for training.

Can we train staff and volunteers on our own policies?

Yes. Upload your safeguarding policy, code of conduct, volunteer handbook or procedures, and AI Studio turns them into trackable microlessons with quizzes. Most documents become a video in about 10 minutes, and your documents are never used to train AI models.

What safeguarding training does 5Mins offer?

Safeguarding Adults at Levels 1, 2 and 3, Safeguarding Children at Levels 1, 2 and 3 plus a global version, and Duty of Care. They sit alongside awareness courses on mental health, dementia, autism, learning disabilities and neurodiversity, so your people know how to support the people your charity serves.

Can 5Mins be our charity LMS?

For most charities, yes. 5Mins handles the whole workflow: people synced from your HR system, enrollment by role, region or cohort, automatic re-enrollment on a schedule you set, manager dashboards and exportable records. If you'd rather phase the change, 5Mins can run alongside your current learning management system.

How long does it take to get started?

Most customers are live in 2-4 weeks. 5Mins connects to 100+ HRIS platforms to sync joiners and leavers automatically, and supports single sign-on through SAML and OIDC, including Microsoft Entra ID and Google Workspace.

How do Roleplays work for charity teams?

People practice realistic conversations with an AI character, out loud or by typing, then get a score and coaching feedback. Charity teams use Roleplays for raising a safeguarding concern, handling a complaint and difficult conversations with colleagues. Start from a ready-made scenario, or describe your own and AI builds it.

Is 5Mins secure enough for the data charities hold?

Yes. 5Mins is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, with data hosted in the EU, encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit. 5Mins acts as your data processor under a DPA, and your data is never sold.

Do we need a work email for volunteers, and how do we keep their training light?

Volunteers sign in with a mobile number and your organization's access code. Assign a short induction and one safeguarding course, and leave the rest of the library to staff.

Can we run annual declarations, such as conflicts of interest?

Yes. Set a recurring Automation with an e-signature, and every response is kept in Learning Records, ready for trustees or auditors.

Can we edit the lessons so they sound like us?

Yes. AI Studio lessons are editable before you publish. Change the voice, wording and branding so they match your charity.

Can we start without a credit card, and is there pricing for charities?

You can start a free trial with no credit card. Pricing depends on your team size, and we'll talk through what works for your budget.

We have to run a tender. Can you support it?

Yes. 5Mins is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, with EU-hosted data and a DPA. Most customers are live in 2-4 weeks, and your documents are never used to train AI models.

Can we use 5Mins content in our existing LMS or intranet?

Yes. Interactive SCORM lessons made in AI Studio download as SCORM, and you can download videos.

Keep your people safe and compliant without stretching your team

95%+ completion on safeguarding, GDPR and health and safety training, starting week one. See why charities and not-for-profits trust 5Mins to keep staff and volunteers trained and audit-ready.