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This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Is it okay for charity workers to give birthday cards to service users?
Ocean King
We are a small unincorporated charity that is in process of changing to CIO. We have held off the AGM so that we can have the new constitution approved with current exec committee and then have AGM w...
Sam Panchal
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....
Peter Dun
Is there a sample letter that we can send to trustees that are being replaced for non attendance of meetings and no longer available to serve as trustees?
Habil Makomereh
Hi all, hoping someone out there may have done an excepted charity to CIO transition. We are a baptist church (excepted charity) moving to a new CIO model (association). The current body has trustees...
Mark Davies
Hi, I work for a CIO which has its area of operations (activities) in the England and Wales. We intend to extend our operations to other countries in EU and Asia. I want to know: 1. What changes in t...
Sibghatullah Ahsan
Hello, I am in the process of starting a CIC, and currently on universal credit limited capability for work-related activity (LCWRA), and the guy who I spoke to was absolutely useless. I'm not lookin...
Oliver Burns
We have a CIO charity led by two connected persons and have a salary from the CIO which he never declares it to the charity commission and never excuses himself from any meeting.  Recently when a mem...
Do I have to remain as a trustee if there isn't enough people on the committee and nobody to take my officer role?
Natasha E
Does anyone know how much the lawyers would charge for a deed document for a trustee?
Habil Makomereh
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hello, I'm in a quandary. I'm a trustee and the charity is recruiting a new manager, and I happened to check an appli...
Ocean King
Hi New to the community so apologies if this should be elsewhere...I'm in the progress of inviting a new Trustee to the board and unfortunately unable to locate and existing paperwork/digital version...
Sean Curran
I'm beginning to write a paper for my Chair to outline the reasoning for restructuring our little bunch of volunteers who run the PTA. Currently the only requirement to join the committee is that tha...
Peter Dun
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our little charity (turnover around £12k) consists of 10 trustees who each serve a term of three years. At the end of...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Has anyone ever been a CEO for an organisation where all the trustees have the same background? There is no diversity...
Ocean King
I have been asked to help set up a local small charity that will raise around £20k per year through selling and fundraising etc so it is very small and the trustees are all family members, not open t...
WAHEED AHMAD
What is good practice for approving spends that meet the charity's aims?  (Apologies if the terminology is incorrect) We are all volunteers and have committee meetings every 6 weeks or so and often t...
Peter Dun
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Just over six years ago I had a disagreement with a certain chairman of a well known charity, I was getting pushed ar...
Ocean King
Hi, I represent Wave Social Enterprise, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering community engagement through creative arts and fitness in the  London area. We're looking for a suitable space...
Tomasz Mielnik
Hi, does anyone know of any Salesforce Consultants that offer free or low rates to charities? We have the not for profit licences, just need some help with implementation and some maintenance. Thanks...
Helen Wilman
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hi all! I am in the process of creating a community interest company but there are things I would like to do in the f...
Ocean King
Hopefully a quick and easy question! For your charity's Annual Return to the Charity Commission, do you list your current charity address or the address that was correct during the year being covered...
Hollie Felton
Hello, everyone From the perspective of charity internal politics, as I understand it, part of a trustee's role is to give vital instruction when the charity employees are neglecting to either open a...
Patrick MacLane
Good evening, as a non profit charity I want to find out how do you get paid as a worker for the charity.  I'm looking to go full time with the charity that i started so I am just wondering how do I...
Sam Will
We have a support group which raises funds only for our charity. They would like to have a bank account in their own name as they hold events which require set up costs before the event and they need...
Sarah Snell
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: How do you deal with an employee who used to be your best mate but now seems to hate you? I’m the Chair of the Truste...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our trustees have made the manager's post redundant and 2 if them are now 'overseeing' the charity but have no idea o...
Ocean King
HI Everyone, I have recently set up my CIC in which I had to sign up with two directors on camp is house. I am the founder of the CIC along with being a director. I brought lady on board I initially...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We have our AGM coming up and are expecting it to be quite contentious. Does anyone have experience of using external...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Charity registration as CIO unsuccessful after charity (an unincorporated association) received more than £5,000 inco...
Ocean King
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