This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our board has been asked by our founding staff member for an advance on their salary. We suspect this should be in th...
Hello, I am looking to find information about what CRM other charities use in order to see what options are available out there. All the best, Veronica
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: How much does age discrimination crop up in your experience? Are employers more likely to employ someone in their 30'...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We have had trouble with the chair. He happily lets everyone else do the work and takes full credit, won’t help, and...
Hi All, just wondering whether anyone has used the Gradar platform? We are considering using it to do job evaluation, benchmaring and to develop a pay structure.
Hi everyone, SMAG has been running for about 1 yr now, and we just got our CIO status. We have been successful to partner with a large international charity - creating a corridor to take people from...
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Hi. I've recently moved to an org that uses Google Workspace. There are pros and cons of it, just as there are with Microsoft (which I'm used to), but one of them seems to be that few orgs support wi...
Happy Friday everyone! I do most of the social media for our foodbank charity. We find most of our foodbank family on Facebook but we're also on LinkedIn to build relationships with local businesses...
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We're a small charity with a current account and we want to open a deposit account to gain a little interest. The bank want us to have a trilateral document completed by a solicitor or an accountant....
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Hi It's great to be connected My first day here, and not sure what's going on with sideways profile photo but Was looking to see on what platforms or sites you submit your adverts to when looking fo...
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Does anyone have any tips on boosting their online presence? Our social media's have been up for some while but are not gaining any traction.
Just wanted to hop on here to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined our Connections session this morning! It was fantastic to have Laura Murphy with us to share her insights on marketing trends...
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Hello everyone, I recently attended a workshop with a terrific agency and other large charities. The workshop was about relationships with our supporters . We were invited to reflect on how we see th...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We have a very small charity and the trustees are currently facing trouble from volunteers who are demanding for them...
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Recently I saw a template letter produced by one of the accountants' umbrella bodies, helping any charity tell its bank why it shouldn't be treated like a business when it comes to anti-money-launder...
Hi, Does anyone have an introductory pack for new Trustees with templates of declaration of willingness, etc. Many thanks
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Any experienced bid writers you can recommend? We have several projects requiring bids for 2025. Thanks. Also could anyone recommend other banks to use? We use Metro but would like to know any other...
Is anyone else struggling with potential corporate partnerships post pandemic and actually being able to talk to the right person rather than just send an email. I'm finding that some companies don't...
Hi there. Does anyone have an introductory pack for new Trustees with templates of declaration of willingness, etc. Many thanks
Hello We are a very small charity on the Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire border which was gifted a substantial arts and crafts style village hall 100 years ago.We need to carry out a full building surve...
We had an anonymous post on the community this week asking about the appropriate length of time to wait before following up with a recruiter after not hearing back. The responses so far have been ver...
Just a quick reminder that the wonderful Laura Murphy will be joining us for tomorrow's Marketing & Comms session! We’re so excited to hear her predictions for the marketing landscape in 2025 and lea...
Hi all, we are a small relatively new charity working with children and horses for children's wellbeing and mental health advancement we have 7 horses 2 full time staff 5 volunteers/part time with a...
Hello everyone, Today's quote is from a donor I found on a fundraising marketer's website. It says a lot about the psychology behind giving. "It’s even easier these days to be scared about money and...
Hi, Could you please help me to find out how to convert Private Limited Company by guarantee without share capital use of 'Limited' exemption into a charity. It is a school employing volunteers and a...
We are a uk registered charity and have been rehoming successfully on Facebook for four years now. However we have had our Facebook group taken down because we were selling dogs! I posted up a video...
Just looking at this company and wondering if there is any experience with them? Esp Volunteer Impact? Or similar applications? I have seen the thread 3 years ago on this site on Simply Connect and...
Advent is upon us – for many, a time of Christmas shopping, parties, wrapping presents and looking forward to happy times with family and friends. It’s easy to overlook that not everyone who is homel...
Hello everyone Within my community group (almost a CIO), I hire external people to provide workshops for our older service users. For example, arts-based workshops. As you'd expect, we're not brimmin...
Hi - we are a small children's charity with seven Trustees, meeting every 8 weeks. Accurately taking notes from the Trustees meetings has always been difficult - no one wants, understandably, to have...