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The 2026 CharityJob salary report is now available!   How have charity salaries changed over the past year? And how does yours compare to average pay across the sector? The CharityJob Salary Report p...
Anonymous
Does anyone know  how I ensure an investigator is independent when my grievance is with the chair of a small charity
Anonymous user
Hi. Is anyone willing to share their menopause policy with us please? Thanks.
Karen Bateson
Hello, We are wanting to introduce a more structured recognition and rewards programme for length of service, likely celebrating 1 year and then rewarding for 5, 10, 15 years.  Does anyone do somethi...
Isabel Love
It’s a weird time right now. We’re all riding the corona coaster as best we can. While some have been on and off furlough, others have been keeping the organisation ticking over and many have been ge...
Lucy Gower
Hi All, I'm looking for recommendations of free or low cost e-learnig for subjects like basioc health and saftey, safeguarding and data protection. Any help would be greatly apporcated
Mike Preston
Hello, I’m curious to know how you handle situations where someone wants to raise a concern anonymously. Do you have any suggestions on how this can be done in practice? For example, do you use a spe...
Veronica Ghobert
Super excited that I've started working in The Glasgow Science Centre this week! I had no idea it was a charity!
Hi All, We are considering going out to market for our benefits provider, as we have been with the same company for a number of years. They liaise with our pension provider;  do an annual market revi...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Do you use professional, paid-for coaching within your organisation and how do you find a good coach?
Ocean King
who can provide with template policies which can then tweak and adapt to our situation.   We ideally like the idea of working with someone who can provide us templates to work with, and we can then g...
Mike Preston
Hi, can anyone recommend any good fully funded or part funded managers training courses? I know about the apprenticeship 95% funded courses funded by the government but wondered if there was anything...
Corinne Dicker
I'm concerned that the new changes coming in next month to sick pay from day one may mean that more staff might take advantage of this new right. Would anyone be willing to share their amended sickne...
Penny Bromley
Anonymous
For those of you who are small to medium size charities and do not have HR support -  • What challenges are you facing with the upcoming challenges in employment law.  - what support will you be look...
Anonymous user
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good system for recording annual leave and suchlike? As a manager, I find it hard to keep track of the teams' annual leave, flexi etc. They send me forms to approve their A...
Odette Landbsurgh
Anonymous
I have extensive experience in the charity sector, particularly in substance use, homelessness, and outreach. As an autistic woman, my last job was extremely challenging due to the exclusion I faced....
Anonymous user
Hi all - as we work with potentially vulnerable women, our team has decided that absolutely everyone must have safeguarding training. Being a new charity we don't have a huge budget for this yet. Can...
Francesca Galea
I'm currently reviewing our career development suite and I would be really interested to hear what other charities offer internally. Do you run a mentoring programme? Or internal workshops or career...
Jessica Hanly
I'm working with a charity that is considering offering a death in service benefit* to all contracted employees. Does anyone have experience with this sort of benefit? I would be interested to hear a...
Peter Lyster
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I work for a small charity as a contractor, but as the lead one and have overall responsibility for the delivery of t...
Ocean King
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...
Isabel Love
Hi All Would anyone be able to share their Working from Abroad policy/give me some advice? We are in the process of creating one and I am looking for charities who already have one in place. Many tha...
Edina Peto
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small organisation (6 PT staff) and are looking to move our pension away from Nest for ethical reasons. Does...
Ocean King
If a member or Officer at our CASC has been the victim of a combination of some or all of bullying, harassment, lack of respect, unjustified criticism or intimidation by another member then, in addit...
Peter Bayman
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am in a dilemma and don't know what to do. We are looking to employ a caretaker. My husband used to be the caretake...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I’m looking for suggestions or referrals for individuals or organisations who can carry out a truly independent griev...
Ocean King
So recently we've had some issues with long standing trustees, one who hasn't done their role in 7 years, been absorbed by the manager. Another almost got Ofsted called on us over a callous decision...
Zarah Taylor
Hello,  We're a small charity with 6 members of staff. I'm wondering what systems other small charities use to manage HR functions like annual leave/sick leave monitoring, CPD attendance and any impo...
Genevieve Brooks-Johnson
Hi all, Apologies if this has been covered before... does anyone have any (free) sources they could recommend for benchmarking - at least in the charity sector, but all sectors even better - of benef...
Clare Walker
Hello Would anyone be up for sharing a copy of their TOIL policy with me please? Thanks in advance
Annette Reid
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We have recently had a colleague pass away and are looking for a company who can provide external counselling for our...
Ocean King
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