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At CharityJob, we’re exploring how AI is changing the recruitment landscape — and we’d love to hear from you. If you're a recruiter, please could you take just 5 minutes to share your insights in our...
We're in the process of updating our Salary Policy and it has been suggested by some of our Trustees that we look at linking pay and performance (so good performance leads to a salary increase).  It'...
David Partridge
I am curious, how is your organisation approaching learning and development? Are there particular challenges or creative solutions you’ve come across? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and exp...
Rob Latter
Hi everyone, We are looking for a new e-learning platform that might make mandatory and statutory training more fun and engaging for our staff. We are a gaming charity, so anything that has an elemen...
Isabel Love
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We are a small organisation (6 PT staff) and are looking to move our pension away from Nest for ethical reasons. Does...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'm in the same Community Fundraising role for 9 years and there's no progression/opportunities for various reasons....
Ocean King
I am looking for a more meaningful to our succession planning. We review our successors each year and chat through their levels of readiness, development needed and gaps in terms of our succession. W...
Annette Reid
Hello - we have had a request from an employee on a remote contract to purchase a bike through our cycle to work scheme. The problem is that they are contracted to work from home. I am trying to find...
Ruth Choat
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Any charity that has successfully implemented a strategic workforce planning, is it working can you please share your...
Hi everyone, I am interested in finding out which, if any, providers you use as part of your pre-employment checks?  We have a mix of non-healthcare and healthcare roles that we ask to complete OH as...
Isabel Love
Does anyone on here know if when charities employ international students they are able to help with their UK visas?
Robyn Freya Archard
Hello. Can I please ask, what does your charity offer in the way of learning and development training budgets for outside resources? Is this budgeted per head or per team and do your individuals take...
Annette Reid
Does anyone have a form for trustee appraisals and chair of board appraisals please? I am a new trustee for a charity and our branch have been using staff forms and we would like to improve on that....
Lesley Millachip
Hi I am looking for a management development training provider or LMS system for charities to provide manager skills training. We would also be interested in off the shelf courses or bespoke courses...
Edindra Ezek
Hi All, We're looking at potentially changing our HR system as we need something that have more functionality than the fairly basic system we already use. We've got c.50 employees but also have c.70...
Maddy Wall
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Do you use professional, paid-for coaching within your organisation and how do you find a good coach?
Ocean King
Can anyone point me in the right direction to establish if some individuals are entitled to holiday pay please? We pay our coaches to run a few clubs and a throw away remark on the radio has got me t...
Peter Dun
Hi folks We're an intersectional feminist charity supporting survivors of domestic abuse. We have an EDI working group, which looks at how to reach all sectors of society and ensure services are acce...
Claire Donaldson
Hi Charity Connect community! One of my clients is reviewing their HR provider. They (obviously) want a reasonably priced one as they are a small charity (income £600k) Any recommendations greatly re...
Phyllida Perrett
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hi, we are a micro/small charity and we are looking for any recommendations for HR services/support. Are other organi...
Ocean King
Hi everyone, I’m Ekaterina, the Marketing Manager at New Challenge. We offer fully funded NCFE Level 2 courses in Information, Advice, and Guidance (IAG), Mental Health, and Counselling Skills to eli...
Ekaterina Litvinova
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Hello all, I’m hoping you can help. We have a team member who was initially recruited on a 1-year FTC expiring in Jan...
Ocean King
Hello all, Does anyone have recommendations for an affordable umbrella company / Employer of Record (EOR) service provider? A France-based non-profit that I work with is looking to hire 1 or 2 UK-bas...
Ibis Lilley
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: As a charity we have spent time encouraging staff with lived-experience to join our organisation as they have a wealt...
Rose Cruickshank
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I have recently joined a charity and I am reviewing the sick pay. I have established out of 20 other charities. Major...
Ocean King
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We have had a request for information from a firm of solicitors and exploring the history to the request, the person...
Ocean King
Hi  I am interested in any recommendations re: DBS providers who also offer ID check as part of the package. Also general comments/ tips if you have any. We have a current provider but interested in...
Hi I was wondering whether other healthcare charities use the KO41a NHS complaint categories or have established their own? How do we enable better experience benchmarking across charities? Any insig...
Hi All, just wondering whether anyone has used the Gradar platform? We are considering using it to do job evaluation, benchmaring and to develop a pay structure.
Mary Giddens
Hi, As a charity we have a salary policy which has pay bands (e.g. Assistant, Officer, Manager etc.).  Those bands cover a pay range, and people typically start at the bottom of the band (but not alw...
David Partridge
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We've been operating as a community group for a few years, and are hoping to become a registered CIO (application has...
Ocean King
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