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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: For a number of years, the small charity for which I work has paid for a Christmas meal for the Trustees, staff and v...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our trustees have recently appointed a new clinical director. We are a counselling service supported 100% by grants a...
Hi, we are a small group of residents, (about 50). We have a chairperson, treasurer and secretary. How often do these people have to be re-elected? We are also having problems with the chairperson's...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am a trustee of a dog rescue charity, I am really looking for advice on difficulties the charity is facing currentl...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Looking for some governance advice! We are a small charity who run a community centre from the building that the loca...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am the founder, volunteer CEO and trustee of a charity that has been working for five years and has been formally r...
Hi everyone! We have a new Trustee coming on board and they have a professional name that they prefer to use, and a legal name. This is absolutely fine in terms of day to day working and background c...
Hopefully someone can answer this? Gov.uk are emailing to say company directors and people with significant control (PSCs) to verify their identity under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We'd welcome any suggestions/advice on suitability of amendments, drafted using an old constitution to bring it up to...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a new charity, set up in June 2024. The charity was established following the success of a podcast that had a...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We're trying to update our performance dashboard, and wondered if anyone could advise which measures your Boards use...
Hi everyone, I saw the post below about in-person safeguarding training but wondered if anyone could recommend any low cost online safeguarding training for our trustees - for charity working with vu...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hi all! New to the community here! I'm writing as the Chair person to a small charity offering Early Years nursery p...
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...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I work for a charity that operates as a subsidiary within a wider group structure. There is one other charity within...
Does the Charity Commission 'Guidance for charities with a connection to a non-charity' apply to the relationship between registered charities that are acquired by (become a subsidiary of) an exempt...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are an unincorporated charity that owns a property registered with HM Land Registry. The legal title is still in t...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I work for a small UK charity supporting disabled people. In just over two years, I’ve had five different line manage...
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 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...
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...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'd like to get help in resolving a pressing matter with the community company I am involved in. But not sure how to...
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...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: STRESSED !!!!!!!!!! How do you deal with a Trustee who disses your suggestions and gets every other Trustee to agree...
Recently a funding proposal was circulated. It was to hire an ice cream van to hand out free treats to all of the kids at an end of term celebration. As it was in the fallow time between meetings, w...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: There doesn’t seem to be an explicit power in the Foundation CIO Constitution, the Charity Commission template, for t...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: The landlord of our property would like to become a trustee as they value our charity. Has anyone else had any experi...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'm thinking of taking on a CEO post the current CEO leaves in December. For 2024 show zero pounding and zero pound o...
The legislation concerning working with vulnerable groups in Scotland is changing at the end of this month. The scope of who needs to be checked is expanding to cover those "with power or influence"....
Hi I'm looking for any recommendations for consultants or experts in this field who would be able quote for a short term piece of work to analyse our policy review and sign off process. One of my ma...
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