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Hi My organisation, The White Rose Forest, are currently a strategic partnership, part of Kirklees Council. Our funding streams are changing over the next three years, we want to establish a charita...
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Hi I am researching putting together a talks policy to ensure we use our own resources wisely and get the best out of the talks and contacts we make. I wasn't planning to put any charges in place, bu...
Hi, I read this in an email from Charity Connect. Why not ask for a mentor? I would love a mentor, who do I ask? Thanks, Jude
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...
Hi Charity Connect people, I am doing some research on behalf of a charity which provides a magazine and a list of support places for people living on the streets or sofa-surfing in London and Scotl...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: The charity I work for has been one of the many impacted by the recent change in CAF Bank’s system. It’s been extreme...
Hi there We have a small charity which offers telephone advice three times a week. Our current phone system (VOIP) is not great. We don't have administrative control over a lot of the functions - c...
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Just launched, a new £500m fund to break down barriers to opportunity for up to 200,000 vulnerable children and young people. It's aim is to boost pupil achievement and could fund programmes to reduc...
Hi Firstly thanks for reading this post. At another charity that I involved with, we are hoping to run our first fundraising dinner at a restaurant. We need to do the following: 1. Take the booking a...
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We are looking for a free rent space for our community youth hub around Brent. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I started working as a senior manager for a large registered charity (£16m turnover) about 3years ago. Around 8 month...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I would love to start a discussion about the PCI DSS compliance requirements. It is so complicated and confusing - or...
Good morning all, I’m looking for a bit of business advice. I’ve been working with a small charity to speculatively develop a management system. They’ve shown interest in using it and are now asking...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I work for a small UK charity supporting disabled people. In just over two years, I’ve had five different line manage...
Hello! Does anyone know how to estimate a cost of obtaining legal advice if we decide to close our non-profit? Also, would the Board of Non-Exec Directors need separate advice. I have a separate quo...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We currently have a role which ultimately is a fundraising and volunteer management position. This is a grade 4 on ou...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am in a very difficult position with a charity that I work for. I don’t seem to have any legal support unless I pay...
I have been trying to find a list of formal policies which a purely grant making charity should have or at least consider. The Charity Commission has come up with the following. Apart, possibly bec...
Hi everyone - we are at the start of the process to transition from a CIC (which we have been for 10 years) to a charity. If anyone has completed this process, I would love to know: if there are th...
Hi everyone, Just looking to get an idea of what mandatory and optional fields most people have on their contact sign-up on their websites (eg. for newsletter, campaigns etc.). We've currently got f...
Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a few thoughts on data collection in charity and nonprofit work. In many of the projects I’ve been involved in, I’ve seen how proper data collection can make a hug...
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'...
I've been approached by a local organisation to find out if they, the Charity, have the 'power' to run an enterprise business for their local community who want to learn a trade but not in the conven...
Can an organisation have a governing document that is a merged Memorandum and Articles of Association? Should these remain separate from each other?
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...
Hi all, the charity I work for are looking for a consultant who would be able to pull together our content and create online training for us to then sell on to our clients. It's quite a niche thing t...
We are new Donkey Sanctuary based in the west midlands. We are in progress of building stable block for our now 5 donkeys. We have managed to raise some funds and also been donated some materials. Bu...
Hi All, We're looking to hosta a daytime event and are currently searching for a suitable venue. Ideally we'd like to rent 2 rooms for approx 3-4 hours with good access to public transport in London....
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'd like to get help in resolving a pressing matter with the community company I am involved in. But not sure how to...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am a member of a CIC community (not board or trustee, and a trustee of a different CIO) and have come across a diff...