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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Taking a job that your over qualified for and experienced pay cut because you like the cause. Thoughts?
Hi all, im looking for someone to be my Marketing and Social Media Officer's Mentor and i wonder if there is anyone here who might be interested in sparing some time with him? or if you know of any p...
Does anybody know how to start communications with local universities to see if their graphic design students might be able to help design our logo as part of their volunteering endeavours at uni? W...
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Hi, does anyone know of any orgs who offer pro bono or free advice for charities? Law Works have declined our application as we're an animal rescue, although our query isn't related to animals. We en...
Hi all! I came across this problem: to register on some sites and applications you need to enter a phone number, but you don’t want to indicate your personal one. I understand that there are now many...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Please can I get some recommendations for freelance designers, ideally for direct mail? Ideally for a charity with a...
Hi I'm a children's residential support worker and I'm looking into helping children in care that will be leaving the care system and moving on to start a life for themselves. I'm looking into donati...
Is anyone else on here having issues with MS365 access today? We can't get in to our MS accounts and emails to us are being bounced back as e-mail address not found! We are being told it may be lin...
Hello all, we are looking into changing our email provider. Which companies have you found to be the best? We would need to keep our current email addresses and we would like it to be easy to set u...
I am a trustee of a small charity (5 p/t staff plus several volunteers involved in aspects of operations), annual income approx. £150k. We have gone round in circles looking for a CRM - let down by...
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Hi everyone, I work for a funder and I am looking for recommendations for due diligence training for two new Grants Officer who have recently joined our team. Ideally something which would go into i...
Do any charities here have under-16 volunteers? Do you have additional safeguarding considerations or do you simply encourage their enthusiasm in other ways? Any help, advice and guidance would be mu...
Marketing
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In an attempt to diversify our income the charity where I work are currently exploring hosting adverts on one of our websites. (For context its not our main website, but one specifically designed for...
Hi, As a charity we have a salary policy which has pay bands (e.g. Assistant, Officer, Manager etc.). Those bands cover a pay range, and people typically start at the bottom of the band (but not alw...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We've been operating as a community group for a few years, and are hoping to become a registered CIO (application has...
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We’re getting closer to our fundraising networking session, happening this Thursday, and you’re all invited! 💌 We know how isolating fundraising can feel at times, which is why we created these virt...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Is it okay for charity workers to give birthday cards to service users?
Finance
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Hi all. We are a charity that supports indigenous forest communities in South America. Can anyone give guidance on how we track our spending when we buy local services or resources from parties who d...
Ops
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Has anyone had any experience of sharing back-office functions with other organisations in the sector? If so, how has...
We are a small unincorporated charity that is in process of changing to CIO. We have held off the AGM so that we can have the new constitution approved with current exec committee and then have AGM w...
Why care? No one else does. After an episode when I caught my committee attempting to make changes to our constitution without following the process outlined in the constitution it left me thinking....
Is there a sample letter that we can send to trustees that are being replaced for non attendance of meetings and no longer available to serve as trustees?
Hi all, hoping someone out there may have done an excepted charity to CIO transition. We are a baptist church (excepted charity) moving to a new CIO model (association). The current body has trustees...
Hi all, I'm looking into securing the free Google Ads grant for my charity but would want a third party to manage this as I simply don't have the expertise or time to do so myself (it's just me on th...
Hi, I'm new, glad to be here and learn more about the sector from you charity professionals. I'm looking to better understand any top tips in public fundraising campaigns specifically for activity ch...
Hi Everyone! We would like to change our social media strategy. At the moment we use Facebook/Instagram, but we are considering adding additional ones... would TikTok work? would LinkedIn be better...
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There's been a lot of concern in the press recently about the negative ( ie: costly) impact of the changes announced in the recent budget to employers' liabilities for National Insurance Contribution...
Hi, I work for a CIO which has its area of operations (activities) in the England and Wales. We intend to extend our operations to other countries in EU and Asia. I want to know: 1. What changes in t...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our manager of the charity run early years setting is retiring after many years service. Is it allowed to pay for a s...
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Does anyone know how PayPal defines "non-profit" who can access their reduced rates? I can find lots of marketing on PayPal for non-profits, but not this important detail! Thanks.