Hi everyone. I am new on here and my first ask is about office chairs. We are a small charity supporting vulnerable people. We have just move to a new office and desperately need new chairs. Does any...
I am getting different advice on the following issue, so let's see if we can clarify it here. We are a Registered Charity and a Registered Company limited by guarantee. Our trustees/directors retire...
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Hi, We've been offered income as sponsorship i.e. in return for 'something' - marketing/exposure etc. We work with bicycles – participation, inclusion, development of amateur sport etc. and the spons...
We are looking at changing from a Charity Trust to a CIO purely to safeguard the trustees from liabilities. This seems to be different for different kinds of charity trust in terms of transferring a...
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...
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We are in the process of transferring from a registered charity (Charitable Association) to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, following the Charity Commissions process. The new CIO is set up an...
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I am looking for a more meaningful to our succession planning. We review our successors each year and chat through their levels of readiness, development needed and gaps in terms of our succession. W...
We're in the process of updating our Salary Policy and it has been suggested by some of our Trustees that we look at linking pay and performance (so good performance leads to a salary increase). It'...
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Recently a funding proposal was circulated. It was to hire an ice cream van to hand out free treats to all of the kids at an end of term celebration. As it was in the fallow time between meetings, w...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: There doesn’t seem to be an explicit power in the Foundation CIO Constitution, the Charity Commission template, for t...
Looking for some advice or anyone else's experience of joining their local chamber of commerce. We are a very small international development charity and we want to try and utilise local businesses a...
We are looking for insurance for the laptops that our 3 part time employees use. They work from home. We don't have premises but a registered address. How can we insure the laptops? Do we give our re...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our CIC received Lottery funding for two years. Currently, all the Directors of the company are volunteers and have n...
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And just like that… our first in-person event is in the books! On Monday, we had an amazing time hosting our very first in-person Connections event. A huge shoutout to everyone who joined us, it was...
Is anyone having trouble with the new CAF bank online launched on Monday. I think it is useless and has lost a lot of the functionality it had before. I am going to change bank. Does anyone have one...
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As the DBS prices have gone up, i was just wondering who people use to access the DBS checks in a cost effective way. Enhanced is now £49.50, and we are paying £15.70 inc VAT on top with our current...
What is the best way of engaging stakeholders as a non profit organisation to support community project implementation process
Hello, our small team have been through a challenging few months and as we are spread throughout the country we don't get together much at all. So I am kindly asking for some ideas about a location/v...
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Hi, I'm new here and looking for advice please. Does anyone have any experience working with Community Payback placements? This is something I would like to explore for our charity in terms of volu...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: STRESSED !!!!!!!!!! How do you deal with a Trustee who disses your suggestions and gets every other Trustee to agree...
Hello! I'm looking for a comprehensive intro to trust and grant fundraising course, ideally for free or low cost. I came across this course - How to Fundraise: A Guide to Fundraising for Non-Fundrai...
Does anyone on here know if when charities employ international students they are able to help with their UK visas?
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...
The Health Lottery Foundation will fund projects in England, Scotland and Wales. It's open to small community projects through to national charities and will focus on 6 key themes: chronic disease, d...
Hi, I work for a 13-strong charity team in the fundraising dept and I work on our monthly fundraising supporter newsletter. I have a background in design, and my role is to visualise the newsletters...
Hello Has anyone ever used 'The Sponsorship Collective' to increase corporate sponsorship for your charity? One of our trustees has been approached by them. There's mixed reviews online, and they're...
Hello! We're looking at streamlining all our programming activities and processes into one system for our international team to use. We're looking for a data collection/storage tool, project managem...
Hi all, Thrilled to have found this platform, putting my first question out there. We are writing another annual report and Id really like to make it look and sound a bit more put together and engagi...
Hi all, I am trying to implement the increased use of videos in my organisation. Basically just having a process in place so that everyone can refer to it. Ideally there'd be document which clearly s...
Hi everyone, I am interested in finding out which, if any, providers you use as part of your pre-employment checks? We have a mix of non-healthcare and healthcare roles that we ask to complete OH as...
