Leadership
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Hi, Does anyone have any templates to use with onboarding new trustees please? Many thanks, Sharon
Hi all, I'm looking to purchase 2 tap to donate machines for a large corporate partnership I'm running. We'd like to trial having one in a podium in the office lobby, and one we can take to smaller e...
Finance
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Hi everyone, I am looking for advice regarding a claim for unpaid holiday pay from a charity where I recently worked. My Situation: Role: Clinical Lead for a counselling charity. Duration: 12...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Does anyone have any experience of setting up an Amazon Wish List on a charity business account with Amazon, in order...
We have established a new charitable organisation structured as a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) and we are planning to register it with the Charity Commission. However, we have received conflict...
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Good morning, is anyone able to share their experience of this training and suitable providers?
Gambia School Support (GSS) assists 13 pre-primary schools and we have grown rapidly from assisting 1 school in 2020. The project is heavily reliant on one person (me) and GSS's stakeholders feel tha...
We are a registered Community Interest Company and we have been trying for one year to open a bank account and four banks rejected the application. Any help possible will be appreciated.
Does anyone have good experience of looking for media, comms and social media volunteer support for a small charity. Where to find good people (we are in Mid Sussex), how best to find them? what is t...
Trusts & Grants
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Hi, i work for a small non profit charity that helps support healthcare staff, with wellbeing, workplace issues and education. We really need to secure funding which is new to us. Any ideas for good...
We are currently using FreeAgent as it is free from our bank but it is clearly for small business who send invoices. I have set up lots of different projects which require invoices to enable me to cl...
I was recently contacted by someone I knew, who wanted to increase their standing order and was shocked to discover I wasn't aware they had one. it was via Just Giving and we eventually tracked it...
HR
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I'm working with a charity that is considering offering a death in service benefit* to all contracted employees. Does anyone have experience with this sort of benefit? I would be interested to hear a...
I cannot file my charity's Accounts online because they contain Excel pages. I am being timed out after less than 10 minutes . I rang the Charities Commission whose advice was to convert them to PDF...
Looking for some advice on this please. We use CAF Donate as our giving platform but businesses can't donate through it using business cards due to the level of checks needed. We nearly lost a £2500...
I wondered if we could register for a Nectar card as a charity as we regularly by food etc from Sainsbury's to support our work with the homeless.
Good afternoon respected charity connect members , This question is regarding a charity who generates income working with National Health Service ( 20%) and Insurance companies ( 80% ) and wanted to...
We have been treated harshly by the Charity Commission. We were very straight and honest from their visit, and provided all accurate and true information, but they decided to open up Statutory Enquir...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am self-employed as a charity fundraiser these days, but part of my week the past couple of years I have been inves...
HMRC say they're withdrawing their online platform that lets you submit tax returns. Does anyone have recommendations for inexpensive (or free) software, that will produce a CT600? And even charity s...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I work for a small charity as a contractor, but as the lead one and have overall responsibility for the delivery of t...
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...
Looking for a weekly Sunday hall in Brentford (TW8) for a 3-hour service. Budget £45–£50/hr . Open to churches, school halls, hotel meeting rooms or community centres. Need AV/PA, seating for approx...
Hi, we are looking to create a volunteer welcome pack for new volunteers. Any examples of what we need to include? Thanks :)
Hello, has anyone registered on Vinted as a charity? Our charity shop would like to do this but I'd be grateful for any feedback from others - is there anything we need to do/watch out for? Thanks
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small charity who have a great manager but she is being constantly and necessarily undermined by our trustee...
Hi there, we own the building that we operate out of and are hoping to lease it out to another charity (or a tenant in general). It has been on the market now for a while and are looking for any advi...
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...
Good afternoon all We are exploring the possibility of moving to a serviced office and wondered if any other charities are in serviced office accommodation. Which provider are you with? And what hav...
Hi, The charity I work for are interested in starting a payroll giving programme, so we are interested in hearing other charities' (especially animal charities) experiences with this income stream a...