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...
Where can I go and to whom can speak to secure funding for running costs. The amount is abysmally small but is out of reach and if we don't begin getting some sort of contributions, we're going to be...
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30 grants of £1,500 to charities with an annual income below £300,000. Education – including but not limited to early childhood development, school readiness and success, out of school learning oppor...
Hi all! I am looking for someone who could possibly deliver a presentation to my team (12 people) on the value of video for social media and how to capture good video content using their phones? Happ...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Can anyone advise on steps and good practice when a volunteer returns after a fairly major health issue. Should we as...
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...
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...
We have been experiencing difficulties in even looking at the transactions on our Cafbank account. Only 31 days can be downloaded to a .csv file at one time. You then have to piece them together. Bu...
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Hi - like many I have been frustrated by the problems logging into the new CAF system, but I did finally get in yesterday. I took a look at the statement on all the accounts I have access to (five in...
We are looking to update our TOIL policy and I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to share theirs with me. We're smallish (27 ppl) working with Young People and undertake occasional overseas trav...
As our charity is growing its harder and harder to keep track of our assets across the centres, can anyone recommend a system to track everything? Looking to barcode and track items, check them out...
Hi all We are using Mail Chimp to send out our communications, and we have recently had issues with the emails going into Junk. Has anyone else had similar problems? What is everyone using to send gr...
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...
Hi everyone, We are looking for a new e-learning platform that might make mandatory and statutory training more fun and engaging for our staff. We are a gaming charity, so anything that has an elemen...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone's had any experience or advice on working with futurists / futurologists / strategic forecasters to support their charity in thinking about and planning for future stra...
Hello I've been tasked to write our H&S Policy but I've no experience and it is not so easy to understand the legal requirements in a situation like ours, where we have a hybrid working policy and o...
Are there any legal requirements on what should be included on a charities committee meeting agenda? Many thanks
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small organisation (6 PT staff) and are looking to move our pension away from Nest for ethical reasons. Does...
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...
I am looking for some pro bono accountancy to establish a New Service, can anyone advise me ?
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...
Three of my favourite things are core funding, multi year funding and funding for smalls and here are all 3 in one grant; nice. Lloyds Bank Foundation - Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations Fund...
Which digital tools for grant finding do you find to be the best?
Network Rail Community Fund - 3 themes: Economic Prosperity, Equal Opportunities and Wellbeing. Grants between £500 and £3,000. While applications will be considered from organisations across Scotlan...
As we grow in reach and impact, we’re now at the stage where we need someone to lead the next stage of growth for Walk N Talk 4 Mental Health, strengthening our presence, impact, and sustainability....
Hi, I'm new here and looking for advice please. Does anyone have any experience working with Community Payback placements? This is something I would like to explore for our charity in terms of volun...
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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 there, is anyone else having problems sending their annual return? At the very end of the return, it asks you to upload your accounts file and gives the relevant criteria. Every time I try to uplo...