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Dear 'Everyone' As a wider part of our information sharing, we sometimes do an open house event at a London charity. It started out as a very low key promotional platform but since the lockdowns, has...
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Hi everyone, we’re currently looking to appoint a Statutory Auditor or Audit Firm to carry out the Association’s statutory audit in line with financial reporting and Charity Commission requirements,...
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Hi everyone, I am a member of the committee that runs a table tennis club in North London. We need advice on whether we should be VAT Registered. Legally we are not setup as a charity but are a Commu...
Gordon Izatt
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hi all! hope someone can help me. last year i registered a salary of £42K and pension contributions for £1.5K and was classified as  medium tax payer, obtaining monthly voucher allowances for £161, w...
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Hello Does anyone else still use some lovely simple software called DO$H? I have used it for years and, although it is no longer supported, it still works a treat. It would help to have a contact to...
We are a small charity with an annual expenditure of £300,000. We currently manage our IT internally, we are now considering outsourcing are looking for a quote to provide a proactive Managed IT Serv...
Sharon Berry
What use do you make of AI? Apart from the obvious help with writing of various types and for research, it seems to have many benefits in improving services and accessibility for beneficiaries and me...
Jean Jackson
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Hi all! I'm looking for some advice on events booking platforms e.g. Eventbrite etc. Up to now we've been using embedded forms via our website. However, we're having repeated glitching issues with ou...
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Good morning,   i have recently started my first position in an animal charity. we ask for a relinquishment amount as a donation for animals that we take in from the public, these are normally just p...
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Hello everyone here. We signed up to this platform in-part, because Linkedin has become so huge and for us, little more than a 'white noise' of opinions and unhelpful interactions, better suited to F...
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We are looking for accounting software to cover our operations which range from seminars, online meetings and outdoor activities. Our charity's revenue is less than £100k.  What would be the cost  of...
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Hello, Is there anyone who has recently implemented Beacon CRM and has 30 minutes to spare for a chat about their experience with the system? We are moving to Beacon from eTapestry, and while testing...
Veronica Ghobert
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I work for a CIC and am looking at setting up a shared workspace for us, either Microsoft or Google. As we're a CIC I don't believe we qualify for some of the non-profit packages available. People ar...
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Hello, Would anyone be able to advise if they know of a free virtual Scottish based address that I can use for charity registration purposes please?  I work with stray street dogs in Sri Lanka and du...
Lee Silva
We are a very small charity still in its early build phase. We have no funds or donor-base at the moment and are just beginning to look towards our CRM and email marketing infrastructure -- so are co...
Shaun Higgins
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Anyone in the philanthropic/international charity okay to share their Travel/expense policy please. Currently doing some research. Thanks
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Dear all,   Previously I wrote asking for help in opening a bank account for a registered community interest company in the UK, but we tried four banks. None of them approved this due to an excuse th...
Marina Barham
We have a couple of sites and projects which take payments (shop, events, cafe etc).  We use paypal (having migrated from zettle) but reconsidering as our estate grows.  Paypal are insistent that we...
Michelle Hamilton
We have moved from using Money to Xero and we are coming to our year end on 5th April with Money and Xero in parallel. In previous years we have had our year end accounts produced by a donor (who has...
Robin Dean
Hi, interested to hear what you use for a CRM. We are 30 staff with 50,000 constituent records on Raisers Edge (RE) and the latest renewal prices are really high.... Considering changing, but want le...
Emily Henderson
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Our organisation provides therapeutic support and counselling for free. However, we experience a lot of service users not attending their sessions (DNAs) which is putting unnecessary strain on staff...
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Hello The organisation I work for is reviewing their sick policy. At the moment we offer 7 days of paid sick leave, and then SSP. If we were to extend this to 14 days +, I would expect we would need...
Sarah Hope-MacLeod
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I'm looking to speak in confidence with Heads of IT, IT Programme Managers or senior managers responsible for IT Infrastructure strategies and projects who have experience of implementing OneTouch in...
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Hi, Does anyone have any recommendations for online training for a new treasurer for a small charity?  Thanks, Katie
Katie Callaghan
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I was wondering if anyone has recommendations for people or organisations that provide external supervision for frontline staff. If you know of any practitioners you’d recommend, that would be really...
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Hi, I was wondering whether anyone was able to share what they are proposing or have agreed for a cost of living increase for this year?  It's always hard to benchmark, but our Board find it useful t...
David Partridge
Hi, I need some advice about whether directors of a CIC must always be paid through PAYE. We have recently received a grant that will be able to pay myself and another director for a day a week for 3...
Hi All.  I'm trying to get a handle on what MS charges for their Dynamics CRM suite. They make publish standard  pricing for commercial organisations, but its hard to find what their special pricing...
Jan Newman
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are currently undertaking a Target Operating Model for our large charity. As part of this we are looking to undert...
Ocean King
Can anyone recommend or suggest a suitable meeting room or training facility in London? In commemoration of International Women's Day, and by popular demand, we shall be conducting our first-ever UK...
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