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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?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I am the CEO of a charity, and I'm currently facing an issue with the Chair of our organisation. Recently, they were...
Hello everyone, I hope you have enjoyed a wonderful week. How do you ensure compliance with Charity Commission requirements when it comes to risk and governance? For background, I am a trustee for t...
Our charity has a Governance Scheme dated 1986 which is no longer fit for purpose and needs to be rewritten to update it. We have prepared a new scheme which has the full Trustee Board approval and s...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I have recently joined a small charity (a registered charity & company) as CEO, only to discover at my first board me...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: "Does anyone have experience of setting up a lease on land/buildings your charity owns? Our CIO has authority in its...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'm on the senior leadership team of a charity currently going through a somewhat turbulent time... Our CEO went on...
Hi, I recently registered my charitable company and I am the sole director and such the de facto CEO. I am looking to become operational and register with Charity Commission. My question is can a for...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small charity who have a great manager but she is being constantly and necessarily undermined by our trustee...
Hi Quick query around whether a CIO has to put the same things in its letterheads / email footers as a charitable company do e.g. number, registration address etc or if as they aren't registered wit...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Would it be a conflicted of interest if a chairperson of a charity trust elected his wife to join as a trustee ? Also...
Hi, We have had a custom and practice of term limits for Trustees but it isn't codified anywhere in our governing document. We are therefore considering amending our Articles of Association to includ...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'm doing my first annual return since the Commission added a lot of new questions and reworded other questions and t...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Could we appoint a non-UK citizen as our charity's Treasurer and Trustee? They have a visa and live in the UK.
I have just taken over a NPO which wasn't set up as a UCG but has been operating as such but without a board of trustees. I know I need a minimum of 3 people as trustees but the volunteers I have cur...
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...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I have concerns with our current board of directors. My main concern is that i have lost faith in the directors of ou...
Our CIO AGM is due in September. It will be the first following initial registration so all trustees resign as a matter of course. As well as a trustee, I am the Treasurer and have recently taken ove...
I currently run an unincorporated association and in our constitution it allows people to apply as voting members outside of trusteeship, to hold trustees to account, etc. I understand this is also t...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small charity with families who attend a group session with their children. We also run an educational cours...
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