Our organisation has really been hit by Covid and for last few years our income has been under £10,000 but for 2024/25 it's gone upto £12,000. Really confused about the requirements for annual report...
Governance
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Are we required to have real ink signatures on trustee and AGM minutes? I think things have moved on for other commit...
We've been sent a tax return to complete. In the extra charity section (CT600E) we have to say what we spend on "general administration " How do we know what does and doesn't count here? Any of the...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are looking at Invoice financing and wondered if anyone could recommend any organisations that they have used. As...
The Commission has been conducting SI about our charity since Sept. 2024. So far they raised many questions and demanded 6 years details of everything about the charity. Everything is in order and...
Individual Giving
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Apologies for the stupid/audacious question - I've been asked to look into Christmas appeals - and how the public can be inspired to become regular donors going forward. Obviously one off donations s...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am acting as the Company Secretary for a small charity. It was not run correctly and we had to get it restored and...
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.
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Since taking over as Secretary a couple of years ago I have been working to clear up the mess left by my predecessor....
Hi everyone. Has anyone noticed the rise in people signing up for challenge events and not doing anything with fundraising? What has been your most effective way of engaging with these participants...
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...
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Hello, we are a counselling charity. We provide therapy for whatever people say they can afford to pay. We send invoices out and the clients pay these (or not!) for their session. I have come acros...
I’d really appreciate some insights on this. I’ve spoken to a few small and mid-sized charities struggle to access occupational health support- mostly because of cost, minimum contracts, long waits,...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Just wondering if anyone has used an external company to send out voting papers and count the votes? Any recommendati...
There was a thread about 4 years ago discussing which of these is the better platform for raising funds from supporters doing online shopping. That thread did not seem to come to any conclusion as no...
Hello Would anyone have a recommendation for a reasonable priced law firm to review articles of association please. Thank you, Sandie
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: With Directors having to verify ID for Companies House, I am finding it hard to get them to go through the online pro...
Hi everyone, I run a small charity (Walk N Talk 4 Mental Health) and I’m finding it increasingly hard to balance the time needed to manage everything with staying within the rules for Universal Credi...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I’ve been managing a face-to-face (F2F) fundraising campaign for a small charity over the past three years, using a p...
I'm looking into new donation platforms as we will be redeveloping our website. Any recommendations? Any to avoid? Our CRM is Access Charity CRM so ease of integration is a factor. Thanks!
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a community counselling service, we have some times where our rooms are not in use. We would like to rent them...
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...
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...
The Policy team at RSPB is on the lookout for a conference room or event space that can comfortably hold around 90 people for a gathering on March 3rd and 4th. If you know of anywhere (ideally not to...
Hello, I'm trying to work out if we're paying the 'going rate' for our bookkeeper and I wondered if people would be happy to share how much they're paying for theirs? We're based in the south-east (n...
Hi everyone, I am part of the HR team at SpecialEffect in Oxfordshire. We have 30 employees and are a medium-sized charity. What kinds of benefit packages do similar-sized charities offer? We offer...
I'm hoping someone can help clarify something about Unincorporated Associations. The Government website states that your profit must not be more than £5000, other websites say you must not exceed £50...
My daughter runs a CIC and has just submitted her first annual report and accounts. She has had feedback to say that her Annual report does not meet the requirements in several regards. She had suppo...
Hi - we are a small children's charity with seven Trustees, meeting every 8 weeks. Accurately taking notes from the Trustees meetings has always been difficult - no one wants, understandably, to have...
Hi, We a small charity, Sambhali UK, with three trustees, but I am the only active one. I have been diagnosed with terminal cancer and the other two trustees are not able to take on the financial...