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...
Hi everyone 👋 My name is Jess, and I’m in the early stages of developing a charity platform that connects ocean conservation charities with businesses through CSR initiatives. The goal is to increas...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We have a very small charity and the trustees are currently facing trouble from volunteers who are demanding for them...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We have had trouble with the chair. He happily lets everyone else do the work and takes full credit, won’t help, and...
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...
Hi there. Does anyone have an introductory pack for new Trustees with templates of declaration of willingness, etc. Many thanks
Hi, Could you please help me to find out how to convert Private Limited Company by guarantee without share capital use of 'Limited' exemption into a charity. It is a school employing volunteers and a...
I have been asked, if the CIC has agreed a policy at a General Meeting, do the Directors have the power not to follow the Policy? I was under the impression they are bound to carry it out and it's no...
Hi All Hope all are well. Quick question: As an unincorporated charity organisation if you failed to register on the charity commission site and application rejected, do you need to declare this to H...
Last week I spoke at CharityConnect’s Connections event for charity leaders, where I was able to share some advice and wisdom on how to navigate the complexities within charity leadership. To giv...
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...
Hello, I have been asked by our Appts & Rems committee to produce a map that shows how we are regulated. We are a medical charity supporting people with epilepsy through world-leading research, advoc...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Our charity is a small choir. We registered with the charity commission this year as our earnings meant we were requi...
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?
I am trying to open a stray dog kennel and have been told I cannot get an animal activities licence. Even though I will be getting paid to board them for seven days, and some may be returned to their...
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...
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....
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?
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...
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...
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?
Does anyone know how much the lawyers would charge for a deed document for a trustee?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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