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The trustees want one of our trustees to remain on the board of trustees but not have voting rights due to his ill health. He also wishes to down grade his status. He has been with the trust for 40 y...
Trusts & Grants
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I am a new volunteer with a small local charity that has been going for some years with an "established" base of supporters. It is all volunteers who have flexible role doing what they can when they...
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Hi I work for a charity that has various projects that are not linked either by funders or workers. However, our common link is our board. There are various issues with the chair person, who seems t...
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Dear all, Previously I wrote asking for help in opening a bank account for a registered community interest company in the UK, but we tried four banks. None of them approved this due to an excuse th...
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We have a couple of sites and projects which take payments (shop, events, cafe etc). We use paypal (having migrated from zettle) but reconsidering as our estate grows. Paypal are insistent that we...
I am a trustee of a small youth theatre charity run by one paid individual, supported mainly by volunteer parents of participants. I am concerned about a lack of objectivity and oversight. The founde...
Good morning, I work for a non-profit organisation whose mission is to use digital tools to support humanitarian aid. Are there any grant opportunities open which we can apply to? Thank you in advan...
this is something new to me, but I have been approached by a young man who wishes to set up a CIC so he can do charitable work in Pakistan. Can anyone give me some advice about this please?
Hi all, does anyone have any recommendations for suppliers for donor recognition walls? We're looking for something a bit unique or interesting as our charity brand is vibrant and fun. Thanks in adva...
We have moved from using Money to Xero and we are coming to our year end on 5th April with Money and Xero in parallel. In previous years we have had our year end accounts produced by a donor (who has...
I'm looking for some advice regarding identity verification for Companies House. Some of our trustees (who are the directors of our charity) are non-UK residents, based overseas and do not have biome...
Happy Monday all! As a Prospect Research Manager I've been tasked with looking at Trusts and Foundations that support international conservation. I've been asked to 'think outside the box' beyond Tr...
Hi, interested to hear what you use for a CRM. We are 30 staff with 50,000 constituent records on Raisers Edge (RE) and the latest renewal prices are really high.... Considering changing, but want le...
Our organisation provides therapeutic support and counselling for free. However, we experience a lot of service users not attending their sessions (DNAs) which is putting unnecessary strain on staff...
Hi everyone, I am the Director of a newly established CIC, currently managed by a board of two Directors. Through my research, I understand that we are not legally obligated to appoint "Trustees" (as...
I have recently become involved with a Charity in the Bristol area and am wondering whether anyone has any experience of using and recommendations for specialist content creators to boost awareness o...
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Good morning Does anyone know of any particularly good examples of volunteer handbooks? This would be for a small charity - it's a community garden which has some volunteer co-ordinators and some eve...
Hi all, We're a small charity with a list of people that could help us promote our cause. Unfortunately, they may well have gatekeepers and I'm wondering if there's anyone out there that offers pro...
I'm looking to talk to more charities and I just wondered, how have you found your email marketing for generating website traffic and donations? Is it one of your best channels?
Our charity has recently changed its legal structure from an unincorporated charity to a successor CIO. All duly appointed trustees of the former charity have unanimously agreed to transfer the churc...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am about to takeover a charity with which I was formerly involved as a director some years ago. I wish to appoint n...
We are a very small charity still in its early build phase. We have no funds or donor-base at the moment and are just beginning to look towards our CRM and email marketing infrastructure -- so are co...
We’re excited to share a couple of updates that make participating in the CharityConnect community even easier and more rewarding. 🔒 Anonymous posting You can now post anonymously directly from you...
Governance
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Hi there, Very keen to get examples of charitable objects on governing documents from animal rescue and welfare charities. Many thanks
Hi everyone 👋 My name is Jess, and I’m in the early stages of developing a charity platform that connects ocean conservation charities with businesses through CSR initiatives. The goal is to increas...
Hi Community In your opinion and experience, how do the UK public respond to receiving direct appeals daily - or even twice daily - during an appeal? My view is that UK supporters may click 'Unsubscr...
Hello! I'm in the process of researching DBS checks and whether or not our organisation should carry out DBS checks for UK staff. We are an international organisation with project work in Kenya. UK...
Hi, its quite a pleasure to be a part of this community. We ran a disability centre in Kenya and we have been having challenges submitting concepts to UK based funding institutions as they require th...
Hello Charity Members! My organization works in Kenya and we work with women groups in the village to provide bead work items which organisations can use for promotional purposes. We basically provid...