I have a situation that I'm unclear on. A Founder is the only salaried person in the CIC. It's PAYE as a regular monthly salary payment. In terms of employment, should they have an Employment Contrac...
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Previously membership list was given out, without any due care and was given out by our organisation, which included Names, address, membership number etc. The new committee understands this is a bre...
Governance
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'm with a small membership charity that has a very old constitution with plans put forward by the committee to updat...
I have a personal question or more of a search for advice. My background is more corporate partnership/contract management from within the private sector. I did transfer to the charity sector for a n...
Trusts & Grants
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Hello, I'm interested in thoughts on the best / most respected fundraising courses / certificates as keen to build my knowledge in developing a fundraising strategy and developing winning bids. Has...
I am currently the chair (volunteer) of a preschool, which is a registered CIO. I will be stepping down in the summer and we need to find someone to take over the role. We have struggled greatly to...
Does anyone know of where a small nonprofit could get funding grants of under 10K?
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a charity desperately seeking free legal advice and support. Does anyone know any organisation that offer pro...
Does anyone have any experience with FreeWills for their legacy fundraising and can recommend them please? Are they really free or are there hidden costs?
Individual Giving
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Hello, I'm new here so forgive me if this has been asked before. I'm interested to know what percentage of small charities (income under £500,000) use individual giving and legacy donations. Do you...
Hi all, I am planning to set up a charitable trust with the purpose of issuing small grants to local community organisations. The funds for the trust would be around £150,000, and my initial thinking...
Hello! We're looking at streamlining all our programming activities and processes into one system for our international team to use. We're looking for a data collection/storage tool, project managem...
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Hi everyone I have the task of minute taking for our very small charity. I have simply been using Word and using the agenda to overwrite the minutes under each heading. I wonder if there are specific...
Hi All Does anyone know organisation that offer pro bono/free legal service for small unincorporated charity association- much needed!
We are new Donkey Sanctuary based in the west midlands. We are in progress of building stable block for our now 5 donkeys. We have managed to raise some funds and also been donated some materials. Bu...
We are going through the process of transferring our charity from a unincorporated organisation to a CIO. We have successfully registered the CIO and have a bank account set up and we're getting clo...
Hello, I am new to e-Tapestry and would like to connect with other organisations that use it. Send me a message it you can help me to explore how to use this CRM. Thanks All the best, Veronica
Hello, I have created a new CIC for our business that was under an ltd. The Ltd will still exist so the bank account attached to that will remain. I am however struggling with opening a new bank for...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are setting up a monthly membership fee for one of our projects. We currently use Xero but wanted to see how other...
Hi all, Hoping for some advice please if possible. I think I must be asking for the impossible but haven't realised and wanted to ask if it is completely useless to continue on and if there is any o...
Hi All, we're currently with Axis recycling, but they are very hit and miss with collections. This has led to our shops being very overwhelmed with things we can't sell but also can't move on. Does a...
Hi Everyone This is my first post! I wanted to reach out to hear how small charities are presently using AI and Agents in their day to day to operations. Are there any particular CRM systems that s...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Can anyone recommend a free AI course that you use or have found useful?
Hi folks - anyone else using MS Dynamics with Business Units? We have a massive problem since an MS update and are not sure if it's us or them. Be useful to know if anyone else is experiencing diffic...
Hello, we are looking for a new bookkeeper for our charity and I wondered if anyone could recommend someone. We have QuickBooks and need someone to run payroll, organise monthly payments etc. I'd be...
I have been asked to help set up a local small charity that will raise around £20k per year through selling and fundraising etc so it is very small and the trustees are all family members, not open t...
Hello! I am the founder of a small baby loss CIC and we are currently applying to convert into a CIO. We have submitted the application and in the process. My question however falls around the financ...
Has anyone got any examples of charity websites that are easy to navigate and don't suffer from choice overload? I'm looking for inspiration! Many thanks :)