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I've been approached by a local organisation to find out if they, the Charity, have the 'power' to run an enterprise business for their local community who want to learn a trade but not in the conven...
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Can an organisation have a governing document that is a merged Memorandum and Articles of Association? Should these remain separate from each other?
Hi all We are using Mail Chimp to send out our communications, and we have recently had issues with the emails going into Junk. Has anyone else had similar problems? What is everyone using to send gr...
Hi everyone - we are at the start of the process to transition from a CIC (which we have been for 10 years) to a charity. If anyone has completed this process, I would love to know: if there are th...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I started working as a senior manager for a large registered charity (£16m turnover) about 3years ago. Around 8 month...
Hi all, the charity I work for are looking for a consultant who would be able to pull together our content and create online training for us to then sell on to our clients. It's quite a niche thing t...
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...
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Hi All, We're looking to hosta a daytime event and are currently searching for a suitable venue. Ideally we'd like to rent 2 rooms for approx 3-4 hours with good access to public transport in London....
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'd like to get help in resolving a pressing matter with the community company I am involved in. But not sure how to...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am a member of a CIC community (not board or trustee, and a trustee of a different CIO) and have come across a diff...
Hi Charity Connect people, I am doing some research on behalf of a charity which provides a magazine and a list of support places for people living on the streets or sofa-surfing in London and Scotl...
Hi, I read this in an email from Charity Connect. Why not ask for a mentor? I would love a mentor, who do I ask? Thanks, Jude
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We need a learning management system - any advice? We plan to have a core, plus 2 programmes, comprising 12 video (modules) with quizzes and certificates. Need to enrol both learners and their charit...
We carry out a digital right to work check for all UK staff just before they join, but our provider has notified us of a security incident and some of our staff data is impacted. I'd be interested in...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am in a very difficult position with a charity that I work for. I don’t seem to have any legal support unless I pay...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We have a modest account with CafBank. The service has been progressively downgraded. A few years ago we were forced...
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One for the museum community! Hi everyone, We're wondering if anyone could recommend humane blunder traps please? The only things we're catching are spiders and they kill the baddies, so it seems su...
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Just launched, a new £500m fund to break down barriers to opportunity for up to 200,000 vulnerable children and young people. It's aim is to boost pupil achievement and could fund programmes to reduc...
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...
I have been trying to find a list of formal policies which a purely grant making charity should have or at least consider. The Charity Commission has come up with the following. Apart, possibly bec...
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Hi Does anyone have a Social Value Policy template they'd be willing to share? Or could anyone recommend a good place to find one please? Many thanks
We're happy to announce you can now sign-up to join us at our July leadership event taking place in two weeks! It'll be our last event before a pause - back in September, so don't forget to join us!...
We are charity we work in London at Westminster/ RBKC / BLHF council. We looking for premises property to using for community charity annal rent space to 40-50 people in London near W2 or W12. Does...
Hello we are a small registered charity in teesside and we are looking for a small storage area for about 15 small tomedium boxes
Good morning all, I’m looking for a bit of business advice. I’ve been working with a small charity to speculatively develop a management system. They’ve shown interest in using it and are now asking...
Can I please ask which team (or roles) in your charity leads on volunteer attraction, recruitment, engagement and development in your charity? If anyone has org charts to support this, it would be ve...
Hi everyone, Just looking to get an idea of what mandatory and optional fields most people have on their contact sign-up on their websites (eg. for newsletter, campaigns etc.). We've currently got f...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We currently have a role which ultimately is a fundraising and volunteer management position. This is a grade 4 on ou...
I run a drama school over the North of England and find that , probably due to the financial climate, most of the students are from a very middle class background. As a consequence I"m forming a CIC...