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💬 Discussion questions:  Which parts of your work make you lose track of time because you're so energised by them? What's one small thing you could design into your ideal workday for maximum joy...
Treasurer should step down late June and by that time all of our events will be complete bar a few payments in and out. Cash basis accounting so drawing up the bulk of the accounts to produce the fin...
Peter Dun
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Within limits, should board's aim to make their minutes as freely available as possible? In a recent conversation wit...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Let's suppose that a Trustee presents fabricated information to the Board, and it has been proven to be fabricated an...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I work for a small charity where half the board members have resigned. The three remaining members are all related (w...
Ocean King
Hi We have an ex Trustee who resigned from the charity in December 2023. This person has refused to hand over the website which they ran on behalf of the charity for many years. They will not return...
Richard Sharp
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
Hi We are a registered charity full daycare nursery run by trustees. It was taken over by the parents 10 years ago and the original trustees now want to step down and we want to make sure all the pap...
Mary Bruce
Good afternoon, I hope someone may be able to help with some information on updating our charity constitution. The charity was registered with the charity commission in 1981 and the type of registrat...
Christopher Reeve
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: If the Board of Trustees makes a decision on the basis of information provided by the Chair, is the whole Board liabl...
Ocean King
Hi Do trustees  take of the  chair person while more than half not agree with chair person? or Can the  chair person without return to trustees  do a conference for new trustee ?
John Matt
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...
Joy Clay
Hi, Please could any legal advisors come forward - there appears to be a huge lack of transparency and governance surrounding the recent events of a charity that I used to volunteer in.  This is an u...
Muhammad Sheikh
Hi Does anyone have a download of the Charity Governance Code that they could share with me please?  The webpage is broken and I've contacted the Charities Commission who have put a ticket it to IT t...
Trudi Ward-Walters
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Considering a CEO post but concerned, about a frequently revolving board and a lack of diverse skills. Any input appr...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I have a simple working approach and always look to use templates that match that however lost my last suite of proje...
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...
Anthony Lumley
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...
Ocean King
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...
Ocean King
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...
Ocean King
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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...
Ocean King
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