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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...
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Are there any legal requirements on what should be included on a charities committee meeting agenda? Many thanks
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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?
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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...
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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...
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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...
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....
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'm in the same Community Fundraising role for 9 years and there's no progression/opportunities for various reasons....
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...
Hi everyone,I hope you're well. I was wondering if anyone could help me — I have a commercial property lease contract for a charity shop, and I need a solicitor to review it before signing. Does anyo...
I am looking for a more meaningful to our succession planning. We review our successors each year and chat through their levels of readiness, development needed and gaps in terms of our succession. W...
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...
Hi Ocean and all - sorry I haven't been the most active of participants (!) but our Debt Service is so busy it's hard to divert from that to funding - and also have a life! We are not the largest - i...
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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...
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...
Hello - we have had a request from an employee on a remote contract to purchase a bike through our cycle to work scheme. The problem is that they are contracted to work from home. I am trying to find...
Hi, does anyone use Tableau, Flourish or anything else for BI and data visualisations and would be willing to have a chat please? We're currently using PowerBI which is great for robust reporting fro...
As the DBS prices have gone up, i was just wondering who people use to access the DBS checks in a cost effective way. Enhanced is now £49.50, and we are paying £15.70 inc VAT on top with our current...
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'...
Hello - has anyone got any experience of working with Work for Good? Is the ROI worth the investment? Any feedback appreciated hugely. Thank you