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Hi all, this community is amazing - many congrats to all involved. I wondered where any of you who are founders go to for support? Also what support you are looking for, and what has been useful so f...
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...
How can one navigate the Asset Lock principle - should one need to pay a salary? Any comments?? https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/community-interest-companies-how-to-form-a-cic/community-in...
Hello, Our CIC offered several workshops (life coaching) online etc. which were well attended with some donations received. The donations just about covered costs, etc. How does one account for that...
Hello, I run music courses for children for free and have started doing this as a sole trader being funded by a local charity to run the first course. I have now had interest from a particular funder...
I'm Trustee to a small charity that has raised over £5000 last year so we need to apply to the charity commission. After a lot of research i think the CIO foundation model would be most appropriate b...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I’ve been employed by the chairperson with the trustees agreement to project manage refurbing an 18th century cricket...
Hi, Just wondering if your Trustees use their personal/work email addresses or do they have organisation/charity email addresses set up? I can't seem to find any clear guidance or best practice. Than...
We have been recruiting new trustees to fill 5/6 trustee vacancies and have had an excellent response. Our new Chair is very keen to appoint more as co opted trustees but the maximum we can have is...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Can a chair be asked to step down by a member or all staff, if staff have little or no confidence in said person as c...
Can anyone recommend some of the benefits of a NCVO membership, please? Thanks, Fiona
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I have just become the CEO (not my choice) of a small charity, which will become the foundation model CIO as a Corpor...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Is it okay for the chair persons wife to work on the charity trust accounts? Shouldn’t it be a trustees or a paid emp...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: My colleague and I are whistleblowers. We also have a grievance against a trustee. Yesterday, the trustees phoned us...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our chair person tends to make many decisions without consulting other trustees, this person is also a local councill...
Charity chaos: bullying swept under the rug and plans for unnecessary insolvency! (Anonymous post 🤫)
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am a Lead Manager at a charity where bullying has been allowed to go unchecked for months. It ended (or still conti...
Hi All, We are in the process of transitioning from a CIC to a CIO, do we formally have to stop operating as a CIC before we can submit our CIO registration form to the CC? If so, does anyone know th...
What should be done if the Chair and top officers do what they like to do ignore the community members and waste charity money on unnecessary projects?
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Can I get some legal advice please? I run a very small CIC and have formed a board of 7 trustees in advance of applyi...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I’m a few weeks in post as CEO of a small charity. The financial state is worse than I was led to believe. Draft budg...
Hello 👋 I am after some advice. I founded my charity in September 2020 and became a Trustee. Last year due to funding & grants being hard to get as a small Charity I invested £60,000 into the cha...
Hi A specific question: We're about to start the process of applying to the Charities Commission to recognise us as a CIO. We've got Articles of Association prepared, based on the model ones. Am I ri...
Hello, I am in the process of starting a CIC, and currently on universal credit limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA), and the guy who I spoke to was absolutely useless. I'm not lookin...
Hello any one have a business plan template for a CIC? Much appreciated, Charlotte
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am looking at recruiting an advisory group/panel (terms vary) for a small CIC, with a turnover of under £10k. Along...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Within limits, should board's aim to make their minutes as freely available as possible? In a recent conversation wit...
Hi My name is Maddison, I have set up a voluntary wellbeing/life coaching service and it was suggested to me set it up as a CIC in order to get out to more people and make my service official. But I'...
Hello all I have 2 Qs from the Founder of the business for our new Corporate Foundation charity (they are a sole trader business)... 1. As a Corporate Foundation charity to register, does the foundin...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Other than not being disqualified to be a trustee our governing document does anyone have any guidance on who can and...
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