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Hi all. We are a charity that supports indigenous forest communities in South America. Can anyone give guidance on how we track our spending when we buy local services or resources from parties who d...
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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our manager of the charity run early years setting is retiring after many years service. Is it allowed to pay for a s...
Ocean King
I am looking for recommendations for accountants that specialise in charities. We are based in London, but would consider accountants UK wide. Thanks for your suggestions.
Rebecca Hobbs
Hi we are in the process of employing three workers to be directly employed by our very small charity. Please can you recommend outsourced payroll providers or software packages that don't charge a f...
Sue Cocker
We have used NowDonate part of Donation Manager for a number of ears without problems. Recently the Gift Aid claim process seems to not work. I have tried numerous times to contact them by email but...
Simon Lees
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our pay rise has just been agreed (Nov) backdated to 1.4.24. An ex member of staff has been touch to ask if they will...
Ocean King
Hi - I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for Cash Plans, or similar product, with cost being the main consideration. Looking to expand benefits for attraction and retention if I can. We hav...
Mike Ruff
We've recently run an event where attendees have purchased tickets through Eventbrite. Eventbrite have not released the funds to our charity yet, and although it's not clear why, I am wondering if it...
Vikki Robinson
We've all seen it at this point, and we know it isn't the best news for charities. Here's my key takeaways from it:  ➡️ Employer National Insurance set to raise to 15% next year. ➡️ No plans of debt...
Ocean King
Hi I am new to the charity sector and was hoping anyone could share a sample or a resource that can guide on necessary charity compliance in financial statements and tax filing. Any  tips and resourc...
Alvina Matanat
Has anyone used Pleo cards for their employee expenses? How's the experience been?
Ruqayyah Hussain
If you prepare consolidated group accounts, do you need to show the consolidated group income or charity-only income figure in the CC Annual Return as it is not clear from the Notes.
Fiona Downes
With the closures of so many banks, how are nationwide charities managing with banking cash? We have volunteers across the country who tirelessly still raise cash at local events, but with so many ba...
samantha mccann
We run our payroll as we have people with learning disabilities who earn occasionally so despite having a regular staff team of 7 we have 46 people on our payroll, many of whom are on a weekly pay ru...
Jo Brown
Morning all, I am struggling to find a bank account to suit. Any recommendations? Most seem to be business accounts and ask for Sole Traders or LTD, when obviously that is not the case. Who do you us...
Jonathan Warner
Hi, we have a new CEO starting shortly and they will need access to all our bank accounts.  How do we give them access to the accounts, and is there any information I should give them regarding ID an...
Debbie Holden
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am about to take over a charity (as staff) and their existing bank accounts will need to be "transferred into my na...
Ocean King
Hi all, just wanted to ask if anyone has had issues with finding a bank that deals with opening up a CIC bank account. Many banks have stopped doing these accounts, not sure why?
Deanne Clarke
Hi, I am looking at a new accounting system for a charity. We need something that can differentiate between restricted and unrestricted income and can separate out departments and different funds.  W...
Luci Brady
My problem is that am starting a charity which will train the poor youth through vocational training, we have  managed to  put up some building structures and we expect to officially  start next year...
Frank Rwangoga
Hi, I am the Executive Officer for a Cancer Charity . We have 6 shops which deal predominantly in cash transactions, therefore we bank a reasonable amount weekly through the Post Office hub into our...
Gerry Toner
Apparently today is “#Tick the box” Gift Aid awareness day. And it is certainly great to be encouraging people to “tick the box” which allows people to enhance their generosity to the charity sector...
Hello Can anyone tell me whether a CIO {which is a newly registered charity) needs a new bank account, or can it use a bank account and sort code already in use by a society (not even registered as a...
Patrick MacLane
Hello, I'm new to this group, but I was just hoping that someone might have a definitive answer to a situation we are trying to resolve as trustees. As I have recently been appointed as the treasurer...
Patrick MacLane
We presently use Barclaycard as our Credit Card of choice for both Staff and Volunteers as there is no monthly fee.  Their customer service is poor however and our account can't link with Quickbooks,...
Phillip Abbiss
We are considering converting from an unincorporated association to a CIO. We anticipate the process would be as follows: - form a new CIO - register it with the charity commission - open a bank acco...
William B
When calculating the number or months cover for reserves policy, I'm assuming that operating expense should be cash expenses and therefore exclude any depreciation charge? Thanks
samantha mccann
Hi everyone,  Newbie here👋 I am treasurer for a charity run pre school. We have a Virgin charity account which means zero account fees however we do not have a debit card with the account.  Our staf...
jenny wilson
Can I use an accountant or do I need a specially qualified account to do my account for charity?  Thanks, please advise..
Kirit Patel
Hello, When you transition from unincorporated charitable organisation to charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs), will you need to: change your  PAYE number? change your Gift Aid number? Or c...
Caroline Rand
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