Hi there, I'm Sarah and I run a very small local charity. We are all unpaid volunteers who work about 4 hours per week. We have been looking to recruit a Volunteer Coordinator for a very, very long t...
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Hello, I work for a small charity with a limited budget. We are currently using Mailchimp, but we are curious as to what alternatives there are as we are migrating to a new CRM this year (from Etapes...
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Happy New Year everyone! 🎉 I’ve been working on a range of freelance Salesforce projects and am currently looking for new opportunities. While looking for new work, I’d also like to offer free Sales...
Hi all Does anyone know a good, free or low-cost platform for text messaging several people at once, this is to send reminders to our students attending ESOL or other classes at our centre. It needs...
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Hello, I’m about to become the first volunteer at a small community centre linked to local charities. At the moment, there are no existing volunteer policies or procedures, so my first task is to hel...
We just unexpectedly received an email to pay for an image on our website, we had no idea it was Copy Right. Any advise on this and how we can ensure the other images are not copy right. We are a ver...
I am about to recruit new trustees to an existing charity and would appreciate help in knowing what trustees compliance documents need to be issued for their acceptance. Could anyone with recent expe...
Hi, Happy New Year. I would be grateful for advice regarding donations. Recently, we have received some donations from afternoon teas, or in lieu of birthday gifts where the donor has requested the...
Hi everyone, we're looking for a capital funder for the renovation of our old disused cafe space to create more space for service delivery for women from across London who have experienced gender-bas...
Hi, We're a small but growing charity that funds highly skilled practitioners in pioneering patient focused projects. We are award winning and in 6 NHS hospitals. We are actively looking to recruit a...
We recently discovered the inconsistent and high bounce rate numbers for the emails we sent out each month were likely due to not having DMARC. We've now added it within our domain, so companies like...
Happy New Year All, The Charity I work for is in the process of closing down, we are having various discussions about what or how we store electronic documents excl regulatory documents. Our current...
Hello everyone and happy new year 😊. I run a foodbank and I wanted to get a preloaded charity card so that my team could purchase top up stock when needed, freeing up my time, as I am the bankcard h...
Hi, Has anyone held a virtual duck race before and if so which company would you recommend to use? Any advice given would be massively appreciated. Thank you
Hello, our charity is struggling financially and can no longer afford to pay staff. We have great volunteers and the previous CEO is continuing to do this work, though much less hours, as a volunteer...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: A member of staff has made allegations about the way the charity is run. We do not know what the motivation is for th...
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Hello everyone We currently use CAF for regular donations and they do the gift aid for us automatically but they do charge of course for this. We have recently integrated Stripe into our website for...
Hi everyone, I'm the founder of a small unregistered/unincorporated charity. We have just received restricted funding for a 1 year project, which may require us getting registered. I want to ensur...
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Hi there - is there any guidance anyone can provide on the reasons to provide Trustees with business email accounts? It seems best practice to me to reduce risk around sensitive information that is b...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Face to face fundraising / accounting - a small charity I support receives good income from F2F fundraising but this...
Hi I was wondering if anyone has amended their application form to say anything about AI eg "I declare that this application is an honest and accurate reflection of my experience and qualifications...
I'm a co-founder and director of a CIC which is looking to change legal structure to a SCIO (we're in Scotland). Myself and my co-founder are paid for some of the work we do for the organisation. I k...
Hello. We are a board of three trustees, and we are in the happy position of having five people express an interest in joining our board of trustees. They would all appear to be excellent candidates...
Hello all, I am the Ops Director for a small charity and have been asked to produce a fund raising strategy for 2026. I have never been involved in fundraising before so any pointers, dos and don’ts,...
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...
Good afternoon all , Hope you are doing well , I have a question - How to protect a charities name from others not using them ? example same name in another country ? many thanks , Louis Maxwell
Hello everyone, PR is a big priority in the coming financial year and we're looking into media and PR databases to reach out to journalists etc. Some of the subscription fees are really high, aroun...
I'm involved in a not for profit local carnival (not a registered charity) and we use a text to donate platform - however, they have introduced an annual fee as well as the usual percentage per trans...
We are a uk registered charity and have been rehoming successfully on Facebook for four years now. However we have had our Facebook group taken down because we were selling dogs! I posted up a video...
Hi everyone, I noticed that although my organisation's website engagement has increased, traffic has decreased. I suspect the AI overviews following a google search, plus the increased use of tools s...