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Hi all, We are small-medium charity c.22 staff and are looking to develop an EDI strategy and policy. Part of this work will involve a reparative justice project linked to origins of wealth.  Has any...
I have been asked to become a trustee of an English unincorporated charity. However, a search of the Charity Commission database shows that the last submitted return was in 2005 with an income of £17...
Shaun Bowman
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...
Fran Gardner
We are a small counselling charity. Sadly we have recently lost some items from the centre, so we are having to look at installing a video camera to record people coming and going. Does anyone know w...
Charlotte Bilton
Hi everyone  I will like to check with you if anyone know of any company that can help one to write charity business plan? in order to use for bank request.  Thanks so much for your understanding. I...
Molomo Agboko Oso
Hi all,  We run Teams meetings for some of our groups and we've had a request to enable transcription services as the live caption currently available does not allow a formatting of background colour...
Bernadette L
Hi Can anyone recommend an on-line booking system.  I work for an NHS charity complementary therapy team.  We would like patients & staff to be able to make their own appointments on-line, rather tha...
Helen Turner
Can anyone recommend a company that could undertake the outsourcing of our charities management and administration. It must be an efficient and reliable organisation. We need them to take ownership o...
David Blanchflower
hello everyone We are a small charity which advocates for public service broadcasting generally and for quality coverage of issues around belief and ethics more specifically - and we're currently loo...
Anna McNamee
Hi all, This is such a great resource!  I am looking for a social/community venue to hold a half day workshop. Ideally wouldn't want too corporate a venue - something communal based or different woul...
I completed an online survey today that I received from Venturesome on behalf of CAF.  It was a survey about a new fund they wish to create. Question 15, the last question, is "What is the answer?"....
ROGER CLARK
Hi - we are a small children's charity with 5 employees, all using Google Workspace.  Does anyone know if we can ask Google to reduce the monthly cost - or let the charity use it for free?  Many than...
Fran Gardner
Hi, I was wondering if there are any Donorfy users on this forum who would be willing to give their feedback on the CRM system or even spend 10 mins or so speaking to our charity, Rights of Women abo...
Cat New
Can anyone make any recommendations for a web developer/company for our small site relaunch?  We have an existing website that needs an overhaul/restart and would appreciate anyone's recommendations...
Jeff Andrews
Hi  I was wondering if anybody could offer any advice on how to acquire free office space under the charity status? Thanks
Rsi Raya Gauranga Das
Hello, everyone! I wonder if anyone knows a free space in the central London area for a photo exhibition? We plan a charitable event with the photos of Ukrainian widows in the support of Ukrainian ch...
Irina Karatcheva
Hi, Does anyone know of/recommend a low cost or (ideally) a pro-bono employment mediation service for charities? I have found mediation can cost from £900 ++, a large amount to take essential funds a...
Rashmi Joshi
Hi My name is Silver, AKA Shakila, and I am looking to hire a room to run our Free British Sign Language workshops. It seems to be an uphill battle with the hire costs. I am aiming to keep my courses...
MISS KOSAR
Hello, Would anyone from a charity which has NHS contracts like to connect?  We have contracts for peer support so it would be really interesting to talk to other organisations who have contracts for...
Hello everyone, As an international charity, we often deal with communication problems and need meetings to be translated live. We deal a lot with french speaking countries, so we often have to trans...
Arianna Vanin
Hi Everyone Any advice on where we can access free laptops or buy ones at a very reasonable price? Thanks for any advice - much appreciated. Jackie
Jackie Cullen
Hi does anyone have a schedule of delegation template or example I could see? We are only a small charity just setting out 5 trustees with a CEO (voluntary) who is doing the day to day work, but we w...
Louise Broadway
Hello Our charity hires the services self-employed, independent therapists to provide counselling sessions in local schools. This includes some admin tasks eg referrals, liaison with schools, each ot...
Jo Stone
Does anyone have experience of letting out spare office space?  We are quite fortunate to have some spare room and would love to be able to use it to generate a bit of income.   What are the implicat...
Tania Munro
Hi Anyone, I am looking for a book company that will collect my books from the charity and take them away. Can anyone recommend any companies already working with charity shops. Thank you for your he...
Mark Stone-Brant
Our successful charity primarily relies on volunteerism as our main way of giving, and our income comes from local government and our tenants. As we undergo a digital transformation, we are in search...
Jonathan Spencer
Just wondering if anyone can recommend someone who can assist with building a website for our suicide prevention charity.  The web hosting is in place, we have used Wordpress in the past, and even if...
Luke Brown
We are having issues with service levels and processing times with our DBS provider.   Does anyone have any recommendations?
Paul Palmer
Hello, We are attending a summer fete this year and a colleague's husband wants to make a giant Jenga set for us to take to entice kids and parents over to our stall and hopefully generate more donat...
Natasha Mills
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I got involved at my local village hall over 12 months ago after speaker to the chair at that time. I was voted as th...
Ocean King
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