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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hello, does anyone have experience of using Salesforce for a booking/reservation system? If so please post a response...
Ocean King
Hi. I've recently moved to an org that uses Google Workspace. There are pros and cons of it, just as there are with Microsoft (which I'm used to), but one of them seems to be that few orgs support wi...
Beckie Lang
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Can a supplier of services to our charity issue an invoice including VAT to us whilst they are waiting for their VAT...
Ocean King
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Good morning All, we are currently devising out digital strategy and are looking for a Digital consultant. Can anyone recommend one at all?
Sabrina Franklin
Hi, thank you for welcoming me to your community. I wanted to ask if AI can be used in board meetings to take minutes? Thank you, Debbie
Debbie Hannam
Software, memberships, online ads? Or anything Xx
Thomas Philip
Hi all,  I wanted to ask for your thoughts on something we are looking to do but wanted to make sure it was a good idea before we do anything else and get your thoughts on how we could do it.  We are...
Luke Perkins
Hi all Just wondering if there is shops will let charity rent for free? We are in Leicestershire. Thank you
Wai Ip
Hi there, we're a small charity, £125K income, but with so many different grant streams our Management accounts spreadsheet is getting overwhelmed! Projects funded by multiyear grants of different le...
Maniprabha nolastname
Can you please recommend any payroll software packages ideal for a charity with 15 employees?
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Does anyone know of any solicitors/legal officers that offer a gift of time to charities? It's more for tightening up...
Ocean King
Part of running an SCIO is that trustees have collective responsibility and decisions are made by the majority. Case 1) A trustee is responsible for the running of clubs. A new coach to run a club is...
Peter Dun
Hi, Does anyone have any recommendations of a provider who could give an in person introduction to project management to all of our staff? Thanks, Nathan
Nathan Bacon
Hi, Does anyone have an introductory pack for new Trustees with templates of declaration of willingness, etc. Many thanks
Julie Thomas
Hello all, we are looking into  changing our email provider.  Which companies have you found to be the best? We would need to keep our current email addresses and we would like it to be easy to set u...
Matthew Morpurgo
Hi, I work for a small charity and I was asked for the first time by a staff member to give them access to their data. We need some support and guidance how to handle this carefully. Anyone out there...
Despina Bardosi
Good morning, community! We are planning to go out to tender for an outsourced IT managed service provider in the coming months, however we don't have the expertise in-house to know what we should be...
Kate Burley
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Can anyone recommend a third party provider to deal with the surcharges/VAT on posting publications to the EU from th...
Ocean King
Firstly, I hope everyone is safe & well. Whilst my question below won't be the most pressing at the moment, I'd really appreciate any input to guide us in the right direction.  As we're a small chari...
Amy O'Shea
Working in London, I have found that finding affordable external rooms or venues can be an absolute nightmare and I'm sure this is a similar struggle for people in other areas. So, I thought this pos...
Clare Lucas
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...
Lorraine Trowers
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...
Ocean King
Hi everyone, wondering if anyone has any example business models for how to set up lived experience consultancy? Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Eleanor McMahon
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...
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...
Mercy Kibenda
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...
Luci Brady
We're a very small new charity (1 year), and we need to look at getting a CRM system.  We're using the free Microsoft 365 Teams to manage our day-to-day stuff, and they have a free non-profit CRM whi...
Paul Swindell
Hi Everyone, We're looking to register our existing charity (currently registered in England and Wales) in Ireland too. Does anyone have advice on how this is done? I have found information about reg...
Anastasia Georgousis
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Apologies for the long post but we have reached our wits end in trying to resolve this.  Essentially we have Civil Li...
Ocean King
Hi Everyone, I'm doing some research and need some advice how to put Insurance in place for a group of Southeast Asian seniors. Who want to go out on day trips in the UK. Where a coach/minibus will b...
Hitesh Daudia
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