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Hi everyone - we are at the start of the process to transition from a CIC (which we have been for 10 years) to a charity. If anyone has completed this process, I would love to know: if there are th...
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We're happy to announce you can now sign-up to join us at our July leadership event taking place in two weeks! It'll be our last event before a pause - back in September, so don't forget to join us!...
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Hi, I read this in an email from Charity Connect. Why not ask for a mentor? I would love a mentor, who do I ask? Thanks, Jude
Hi everyone, Just looking to get an idea of what mandatory and optional fields most people have on their contact sign-up on their websites (eg. for newsletter, campaigns etc.). We've currently got f...
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I have been trying to find a list of formal policies which a purely grant making charity should have or at least consider. The Charity Commission has come up with the following. Apart, possibly bec...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We currently have a role which ultimately is a fundraising and volunteer management position. This is a grade 4 on ou...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I started working as a senior manager for a large registered charity (£16m turnover) about 3years ago. Around 8 month...
I run a drama school over the North of England and find that , probably due to the financial climate, most of the students are from a very middle class background. As a consequence I"m forming a CIC...
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Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a few thoughts on data collection in charity and nonprofit work. In many of the projects I’ve been involved in, I’ve seen how proper data collection can make a hug...
Looking for some advice or anyone else's experience of joining their local chamber of commerce. We are a very small international development charity and we want to try and utilise local businesses a...
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Good morning all, I’m looking for a bit of business advice. I’ve been working with a small charity to speculatively develop a management system. They’ve shown interest in using it and are now asking...
Hi all, the charity I work for are looking for a consultant who would be able to pull together our content and create online training for us to then sell on to our clients. It's quite a niche thing t...
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Hi there We have a small charity which offers telephone advice three times a week. Our current phone system (VOIP) is not great. We don't have administrative control over a lot of the functions - c...
We're in the process of updating our Salary Policy and it has been suggested by some of our Trustees that we look at linking pay and performance (so good performance leads to a salary increase). It'...
I am looking for some pro bono accountancy to establish a New Service, can anyone advise me ?
Hi we've been running a NFP Ltd by guarantee company since 2010, found 2008. Our governing docs were written so that we could become a charity or CIC as we grew with a couple of tweaks. Due to variou...
I am curious, how is your organisation approaching learning and development? Are there particular challenges or creative solutions you’ve come across? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and exp...
Stewardship Payroll Bureau emailed its CAF bank clients yesterday to advise that "we were unable to collect funds from a number of our CAF Bank clients’ as their usual monthly Direct Debit failed. Th...
Hello we are a small registered charity in teesside and we are looking for a small storage area for about 15 small tomedium boxes
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are looking into creating a more comprehensive volunteer policy. Does anyone have any templates or examples they a...
Hello everyone, we have a charity shop that isn't claiming any gift aid and I'm looking into this now. Is anyone in a similar situation? Or has a charity shop and could offer any advice? I'd love to...
Which CRM platforms are you using or are ideal for a charity with three different audiences (or contact types) - alumni, commercial and fundraising?
Hi there If I had hair, it would be long gone now. I have tried multiple times to upload the ODS file to upload to HMRC to claim back the Gift Aid that's owed to us. But without joy. Can someone ple...
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...
Can anyone recommend a FREE online course on Diversity and Inclusion for volunteers?
Hi We're looking at moving some of our training modules to being online. Currently we host using Zoom and have a 90 minutes information session about volunteering with the charity followed by a 90 mi...
We are charity we work in London at Westminster/ RBKC / BLHF council. We looking for premises property to using for community charity annal rent space to 40-50 people in London near W2 or W12. Does...
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...
Hi everyone our charity has just experienced the abrupt closure of our bank account for the second time, and we were given no clear explanation either time. This has caused serious disruptions to our...