Hi New to the community so apologies if this should be elsewhere...I'm in the progress of inviting a new Trustee to the board and unfortunately unable to locate and existing paperwork/digital version...
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Good afternoon all We are exploring the possibility of moving to a serviced office and wondered if any other charities are in serviced office accommodation. Which provider are you with? And what hav...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are currently undertaking a Target Operating Model for our large charity. As part of this we are looking to undert...
Does anyone have good experience of looking for media, comms and social media volunteer support for a small charity. Where to find good people (we are in Mid Sussex), how best to find them? what is t...
Hi there, we own the building that we operate out of and are hoping to lease it out to another charity (or a tenant in general). It has been on the market now for a while and are looking for any advi...
Hi, The charity I work for are interested in starting a payroll giving programme, so we are interested in hearing other charities' (especially animal charities) experiences with this income stream a...
Dear Colleagues, I just wondered if any CVS colleagues were willing and able to share some insight into where they had been able to successfully secure funding from to fund capacity building staff ro...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a community counselling service, we have some times where our rooms are not in use. We would like to rent them...
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I'm looking into new donation platforms as we will be redeveloping our website. Any recommendations? Any to avoid? Our CRM is Access Charity CRM so ease of integration is a factor. Thanks!
Hello Would anyone have a recommendation for a reasonable priced law firm to review articles of association please. Thank you, Sandie
Governance
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: With Directors having to verify ID for Companies House, I am finding it hard to get them to go through the online pro...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I’ve been managing a face-to-face (F2F) fundraising campaign for a small charity over the past three years, using a p...
I'm currently reviewing our career development suite and I would be really interested to hear what other charities offer internally. Do you run a mentoring programme? Or internal workshops or career...
Does anyone have any tips about sourcing an IT Support company which understands working with small Charities ?
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I got a letter from our bank yesterday. Coop Bank. They are asking for: Full legal name, nationality, date of birth and residential address of all trustees. This is because they are “key account part...
I wondered if we could register for a Nectar card as a charity as we regularly by food etc from Sainsbury's to support our work with the homeless.
Hi, I am one of 3 directors of a newly formed small CIC. We do not have share capital. When setting up the company we stated that there were no PSCs as the definitions given didn't seem to apply to o...
We are a small CIO charity, registered with HMRC. We support young disadvantaged people in London to build careers in the arts by providing grants and mentoring. Our income is from one-off and monthl...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Are we required to have real ink signatures on trustee and AGM minutes? I think things have moved on for other commit...
We are a registered Community Interest Company and we have been trying for one year to open a bank account and four banks rejected the application. Any help possible will be appreciated.
Our organisation has really been hit by Covid and for last few years our income has been under £10,000 but for 2024/25 it's gone upto £12,000. Really confused about the requirements for annual report...
We've been sent a tax return to complete. In the extra charity section (CT600E) we have to say what we spend on "general administration " How do we know what does and doesn't count here? Any of the...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are looking at Invoice financing and wondered if anyone could recommend any organisations that they have used. As...
The Commission has been conducting SI about our charity since Sept. 2024. So far they raised many questions and demanded 6 years details of everything about the charity. Everything is in order and...
Apologies for the stupid/audacious question - I've been asked to look into Christmas appeals - and how the public can be inspired to become regular donors going forward. Obviously one off donations s...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am acting as the Company Secretary for a small charity. It was not run correctly and we had to get it restored and...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Since taking over as Secretary a couple of years ago I have been working to clear up the mess left by my predecessor....
Hi everyone. Has anyone noticed the rise in people signing up for challenge events and not doing anything with fundraising? What has been your most effective way of engaging with these participants...
Hello, we are a counselling charity. We provide therapy for whatever people say they can afford to pay. We send invoices out and the clients pay these (or not!) for their session. I have come acros...
I'm a co-founder and director of a CIC which is looking to change legal structure to a SCIO (we're in Scotland). Myself and my co-founder are paid for some of the work we do for the organisation. I k...