Hi, can anyone offer any help/advice for recruiting new trustees and treasurer? We've had adverts on the borough volunteering hub, LinkedIn and ICAEW charity job hub for months and not had a single a...
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Hello As a trustee/financial officer for my own volunteer run charity, I use my experience to offer affordable flexible bookkeeping and bid writing services to other small charities and enterprises....
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Following the Charity Commission’s article on large charities making a surplus and smalls a deficit, I ran an exercise looking at small charities being treated as bid candy by larger ones. Two thirds...
Hi, we're being chased relentlessly by NLA media for posting stories on our website about the press we've received. They are demanding money for a licence. I've not heard of them before - has anyon...
Hello We are a very small charity with fairly low income mostly generated from offering subscriptions for artists to use our community space. We have not considered being VAT registered due to income...
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Hi, has anyone created a form / agreement for their volunteer drivers with regards to the new eye sight test requirements which came in on 1 April?
I have been the Chair of a small rural community centre for 7 yrs now; we have recently taken on a new trustee whose agenda seems to be to get rid of me completely. He has today told me he is reporti...
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Hi everyone, I am a member of the committee that runs a table tennis club in North London. We need advice on whether we should be VAT Registered. Legally we are not setup as a charity but are a Commu...
Hi everyone I'm looking for advice for a step-by-step plan in how to go about seeking corporate sponsorship for a capital project for an animal sanctuary - advice from those who have been there befor...
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Dear 'Everyone' As a wider part of our information sharing, we sometimes do an open house event at a London charity. It started out as a very low key promotional platform but since the lockdowns, has...
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Hi everyone, we’re currently looking to appoint a Statutory Auditor or Audit Firm to carry out the Association’s statutory audit in line with financial reporting and Charity Commission requirements,...
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Hello Does anyone else still use some lovely simple software called DO$H? I have used it for years and, although it is no longer supported, it still works a treat. It would help to have a contact to...
I've just received an email from Companies House, that begins: All company directors and people with significant control (PSCs) need to verify their identity to prove who they are. This is a new lega...
Hi all! I'm a Digital Marketing Consultant and I'm looking to create some packages for small to medium charities in the UK. I'm trying to do a bit of market research. What do you struggle with when i...
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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Hi We are a small charity looking to recruit a new Director. The staff team have said they would like to meet the candidates as part of the recruitment process. We trustees have no problem with this,...
Happy Tuesday, everyone. Hope everyone enjoyed their bank holiday weekend. Did anyone do anything special? Feels good to be back in the office, catching up on what I missed over the last couple of d...
hi all! hope someone can help me. last year i registered a salary of £42K and pension contributions for £1.5K and was classified as medium tax payer, obtaining monthly voucher allowances for £161, w...
Hi I'm a newbie to this site - I work with retired Veterans and seafarers on Merseyside for a charity. I've been a Caseworker / Welfare Officer for quite some time - always happy to connect and learn...
We are a small charity with an annual expenditure of £300,000. We currently manage our IT internally, we are now considering outsourcing are looking for a quote to provide a proactive Managed IT Serv...
It's April Fools today but we never joke about funding. The bots have a nice new core funder for small charities. Bentley Motors – Advancing Life Chances National Fund - focusing on Access, Empowerme...
Hi all, Recently and unfortunately we lost our charities fundraiser. We are a small charity based in the UK running projects overseas. Any advice on where to connect with professionals in this fiel...
What use do you make of AI? Apart from the obvious help with writing of various types and for research, it seems to have many benefits in improving services and accessibility for beneficiaries and me...
Hi all, We are reviewing some further family leave policies and wondered if anyone offers anything beyond the statutory for Carer's leave, Dependents leave or Emergency leave. It would be really inte...
A recent incident highlighted an area of concern for me as a trustee. At a home visit to a mum and her child by a staff member the mum became extremely agitated and dysregulated in her behaviour t...
Hi all! I'm looking for some advice on events booking platforms e.g. Eventbrite etc. Up to now we've been using embedded forms via our website. However, we're having repeated glitching issues with ou...
I am Management Committee of a CIO , and we have been discussing set up another organisation to manage our Car Club as it's too much to manage in the Charity and wants to work outside area of benefit...
Good morning, i have recently started my first position in an animal charity. we ask for a relinquishment amount as a donation for animals that we take in from the public, these are normally just p...
Hi everyone, Just wanted to say I'm excited to have officially started as your community manager and to reiterate that if there is anything you need, please feel free to reach out. I’m very excited t...