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Hello We are in the process of closing down our small unregistered charity, but I have a question on legality of transferring funds. We have no debts or DD outstanding and have small funds left in th...
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Trusts & Grants
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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has any experience/thoughts with grant funding for CICs limited by guarantee vs shares. We are currently a company limited by shares and want to convert to a CIC lim...
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We are a new charity in Pembrokeshire. Any advice please on how we can get our message out there to young people would be helpful. Our web address s tenbyandcountytrust.org
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hello all. I am new to website. This is a sensitive topic for me. I ask for some help and guidance. I am really strug...
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Why care? No one else does. After an episode when I caught my committee attempting to make changes to our constitution without following the process outlined in the constitution it left me thinking....
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Hi there everyone, we are struggling a bit to raise funds for our projects. I need to post job but not quite sure where to recruit these specialist from.Anyone can help?
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Finance
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our CIC has been running for 5 years with an amazing impact on local community, and is managed by three directors, on...
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Hi there Wondering is anyone has experience of recruiting celebrities and influencers to their cause? We are a small-ish charity with a garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May this year and are look...
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Hello Does anyone have an AI policy they'd be willing to share? Or know where I can access one? I'd like to have something that covers fundraising (grant applications, marketing etc) as well as ope...
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Hey, I am looking for a business sponsor form template. any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, James
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Hi, I work for a 13-strong charity team in the fundraising dept and I work on our monthly fundraising supporter newsletter. I have a background in design, and my role is to visualise the newsletters...
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Hello, Grateful for any insight into how to run a charity auction. We've never done an activity like this before and don't have a huge amount of time or capacity to dedicate to it so simple and manag...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: As a charity we have spent time encouraging staff with lived-experience to join our organisation as they have a wealt...
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Governance
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Is the board liable for decisions based on misleading information from the chair? (Anonymous post 🤫)
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: If the Board of Trustees makes a decision on the basis of information provided by the Chair, is the whole Board liabl...
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Hello all, Does anyone have recommendations for an affordable umbrella company / Employer of Record (EOR) service provider? A France-based non-profit that I work with is looking to hire 1 or 2 UK-bas...
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As a small CIC we have not been in a position to give up the other job due to instability , lack of funding. Lots of the admin/ fundraising work has been voluntary. We have been paid for running ses...
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I have enjoyed a career as an advertising and portrait photographer and along the way have worked with many agencies and directly with charities in many sectors. This is now the direction I am hoping...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hello all, I’m hoping you can help. We have a team member who was initially recruited on a 1-year FTC expiring in Jan...
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I wish to appoint a new director and I'm looking for a contract template -- any clues out there, please?
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Hello, could someone help me understand sponsorship? I'm a little lost it how it actually benefits a charity. Thank you
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Hi everyone, I’m Ekaterina, the Marketing Manager at New Challenge. We offer fully funded NCFE Level 2 courses in Information, Advice, and Guidance (IAG), Mental Health, and Counselling Skills to eli...
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Hello everyone, We are a new charity concerned with girls’ rights, women’s empowerment, and community assistance. Because our budget is small, we want to give this position to a volunteer executive...
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Hi We have an ex Trustee who resigned from the charity in December 2023. This person has refused to hand over the website which they ran on behalf of the charity for many years. They will not return...
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Hi all, not sure this is the right community to post in. I work in admin but there is an opportunity for me to shift into a more project management role, particularly assisting someone working in gra...
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Hi All. I'm leaving a legal career and struggling with finding my best fit in the charity sector. I am interested in the idea of governance, but don't really know what it entails, or whether it might...
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Hi Do trustees take of the chair person while more than half not agree with chair person? or Can the chair person without return to trustees do a conference for new trustee ?
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Hi Everyone I am the branch manager for an independent branch of the RSPCA, which means we are entirely self-funded. At the moment, we are fundraising to replace our 12-year-old ambulance/collection...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small charity with 20 staff. We are considering ditching our office and becoming fully remote working but wi...
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I'm Trustee to a small charity that has raised over £5000 last year so we need to apply to the charity commission. After a lot of research i think the CIO foundation model would be most appropriate b...
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Hi, We are trying to streamline our processes and it looks like we will still need 3-4 systems to capture everything and then we will are trying to work out how we can look after those who belong in...
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Trusts & Grants
New
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has any experience/thoughts with grant funding for CICs limited by guarantee vs shares. We are currently a company limited by shares and want to convert to a CIC lim...
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Finance
New
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our CIC has been running for 5 years with an amazing impact on local community, and is managed by three directors, on...
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Hi, I work for a 13-strong charity team in the fundraising dept and I work on our monthly fundraising supporter newsletter. I have a background in design, and my role is to visualise the newsletters...
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Trending
Hi there everyone, we are struggling a bit to raise funds for our projects. I need to post job but not quite sure where to recruit these specialist from.Anyone can help?
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1
Governance
Trending
Is the board liable for decisions based on misleading information from the chair? (Anonymous post 🤫)
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: If the Board of Trustees makes a decision on the basis of information provided by the Chair, is the whole Board liabl...
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Hey, I am looking for a business sponsor form template. any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, James
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As a small CIC we have not been in a position to give up the other job due to instability , lack of funding. Lots of the admin/ fundraising work has been voluntary. We have been paid for running ses...
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Hello We are in the process of closing down our small unregistered charity, but I have a question on legality of transferring funds. We have no debts or DD outstanding and have small funds left in th...
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1
Trending
Hello Does anyone have an AI policy they'd be willing to share? Or know where I can access one? I'd like to have something that covers fundraising (grant applications, marketing etc) as well as ope...
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1
Hello, Grateful for any insight into how to run a charity auction. We've never done an activity like this before and don't have a huge amount of time or capacity to dedicate to it so simple and manag...
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1
PR
Trending
Hi there Wondering is anyone has experience of recruiting celebrities and influencers to their cause? We are a small-ish charity with a garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May this year and are look...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hello all, I’m hoping you can help. We have a team member who was initially recruited on a 1-year FTC expiring in Jan...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hello all. I am new to website. This is a sensitive topic for me. I ask for some help and guidance. I am really strug...
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Would you like to connect with other fundraisers but not sure where to start? Join us at our next fundraising networking session on Thursday 30th January to gather as a community and meet others in...
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