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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...
Gillian Alcock
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...
Rebecca Hobbs
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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...
Has anyone been involved in taking out loans to see finances over a dry period? We are considering this. Maybe talking to banks and also loans from trustees and supporters. Any advice would be helpfu...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small charity with around 30 employees. We currently have an auto-enrolment pension scheme with The People's...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hello, This is a sensitive request as negotiations are ongoing. I'm a charity trustee involved in taking over (all wi...
Ocean King
Hi everyone! We are a swing dance organisation that is a Community Interest Company, which means we are not for profit, but not a charity either. We've recently had to deal with VAT registration and...
Cambridge Swing Dance
Hi everyone, What expenses tracking systems do you use? We're exploring our options for a reliable (and ideally free!) travel-friendly option for relatively infrequent use. Thanks so much!
Catherine Thomson
I'm looking to change our bank account from Barclays to a more ethical and efficient one. Which ones do you recommend?
Khalida Khan
I want to set up a donation platform on our new website that will connect to our Beacon Database. Does anyone know if Stripe offers a reduction in their prices/fees for non-profits please? If so, doe...
Vanessa Eden
Hello, I am currently in the process of setting up a charity as a CIO and I am wondering how to get a bank account as all the charity accounts seem to need you to already be registered to get an acco...
Jadesola Ayoola
We are the newly appointed board of trustees for a small, unincorporated UK-registered charity. We have not received a financial handover from previous trustees, and the bank is refusing to update th...
Rondald james
Can anyone give me some advice or was in a similar situation. We are a CIC that has applied to multiple bank accounts yet gets rejected as they cannot support our services. Can anyone help?
Leighton Bishop
Hi, we want to invest some of our funds, but when we have asked investment managers we have found that they have a minimum of £150K to 1,000,000. Does anyone know of a way to invest with a smaller bu...
Henry Roehl
Hi  Our Charity was registered as CIO October 2023. The financial period end we put as is March 31. When should we submit the first financial report?
Nigist Amare
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Hello, I have created a new CIC for our business that was under an ltd. The Ltd will still exist so the bank account attached to that will remain. I am however struggling with opening a new bank for...
Lexi Elven
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are setting up a monthly membership fee for one of our projects. We currently use Xero but wanted to see how other...
Ocean King
Hello, we are looking for a new bookkeeper for our charity and I wondered if anyone could recommend someone. We have QuickBooks and need someone to run payroll, organise monthly payments etc.  I'd be...
Debbie Holden
Hello! I am the founder of a small baby loss CIC and we are currently applying to convert into a CIO. We have submitted the application and in the process. My question however falls around the financ...
Leila Hobart
We are currently using FreeAgent as it is free from our bank but it is clearly for small business who send invoices. I have set up lots of different projects which require invoices to enable me to cl...
Robin Dean
We are a small non-profit charity. We have an accountant who completes and submits our accounts on an annual basis to the charities commission, but we require an easy to use free accountancy package...
Elaine Hockey
Hello all Can someone advise on a bank account for a CIC please.  I am getting nowhere! Thanks
Greg St. John
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a charity that follows SORP for the annual accounts. This year, for the purposes of quarterly management accou...
Ocean King
Hi All We are an unincorporated charity association looking to register with charity commission. Our last application was rejected, it needed some improvement before resubmitting. By the time we got...
Peace Garden
We're looking for a part time finance/ course administrator to start immediately and will need agency staff to help us while we recruit. Any agency recommendations very much appreciated!  Thank you.
Rebecca Eaves
I'm looking for some accounting advice. The small charity of which I'm treasurer has (last year) "converted" into a CIO, that is we created a new entity and have transferred all the funds and operati...
Phil Rowcliffe
Hello We are a small award winning charity that provides complex projects for paediatric and adult projects across 6 NHS Trusts. We are expanding and need both bookkeeping support and strategic finan...
Suzanne Ruggles-Redhead
Hi all, What's considered best practice with account signatories?  We're moving banks and I'd assumed we'll put all 5 trustees as signatories as that helps if some people are unavailable. But then I...
Edward Bainton
We are looking for preloaded debit cards for our volunteers to use. Anyone out there with knowledge and experience, and any recommendations? Thank you
Jenny Davison
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