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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Just wondering if anyone has used an external company to send out voting papers and count the votes? Any recommendati...
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There was a thread about 4 years ago discussing which of these is the better platform for raising funds from supporters doing online shopping. That thread did not seem to come to any conclusion as no...
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Hello Would anyone have a recommendation for a reasonable priced law firm to review articles of association please. Thank you, Sandie
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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...
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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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Hi everyone, I run a small charity (Walk N Talk 4 Mental Health) and I’m finding it increasingly hard to balance the time needed to manage everything with staying within the rules for Universal Credi...
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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...
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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!
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Policy team at RSPB is on the lookout for a conference room or event space that can comfortably hold around 90 people for a gathering on March 3rd and 4th. If you know of anywhere (ideally not to...
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Hello, I'm trying to work out if we're paying the 'going rate' for our bookkeeper and I wondered if people would be happy to share how much they're paying for theirs? We're based in the south-east (n...
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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...
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Hi everyone, I am part of the HR team at SpecialEffect in Oxfordshire. We have 30 employees and are a medium-sized charity. What kinds of benefit packages do similar-sized charities offer? We offer...
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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.
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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...
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I'm hoping someone can help clarify something about Unincorporated Associations. The Government website states that your profit must not be more than £5000, other websites say you must not exceed £50...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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My daughter runs a CIC and has just submitted her first annual report and accounts. She has had feedback to say that her Annual report does not meet the requirements in several regards. She had suppo...
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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...
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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...
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Hi, We a small charity, Sambhali UK, with three trustees, but I am the only active one. I have been diagnosed with terminal cancer and the other two trustees are not able to take on the financial...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small scientific charity that has a long running program providing workshops on our area of research. These...
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I have joined because I need urgent help and do not have the experience to deal with the situation that the charity I work for is about to face CLOSURE due to resignation of all Trustees and no new T...
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Could you please advise whether a small non profit charity with no employees, assets or property but we have volunteers, requires PL insurance. If so, could anyone recommend affordable cover please...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Just wondering if anyone has used an external company to send out voting papers and count the votes? Any recommendati...
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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...
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CharityConnect is built on community, and as such, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to network. This is a thread for you to meet other new members and start making connections straight...
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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...
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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...
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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!
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Governance
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Hello Would anyone have a recommendation for a reasonable priced law firm to review articles of association please. Thank you, Sandie
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Individual Giving
Trending
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...
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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...
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