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Advice and tips on how to manage and run your charity

  • #AdventWord 2019: 7 Unity

    #AdventWord 2019: 7 Unity

    Unity by Dr. Wendy Longo Flickr 2.89 In all our meetings for church affairs we need to listen together to the Holy Spirit. We are not seeking a consensus; we are seeking the will of God. The unity of the meeting lies more in the unity of the search than in the decision which is

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  • Sharing generic email accounts

    Generic Email I recommend generic email addresses to all clients, recommending them for a range of reasons: Correspondence is held in a role specific email box. When a new person starts they can catch up, or search for previous conversations. The generic email box means that when a person leaves the role, or doesn’t want

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  • Face to Face with some of London’s cleaners

    Face to Face with some of London’s cleaners

    Clean for Good is a cleaning firm with a difference. I was delighted to attend the preview evening for this exhibition at St Sepulchre’s Church, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2DQ. It opens formally on Monday and will be open Monday – Thursday 11am – 2pm until the end of August 2019. This is a selection

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  • Fire Alarm – Do Not Touch!

    Fire Alarm – Do Not Touch!

    Fire! Fire is a serious risk. However, even if the equipment can be tempting to small people, I don’t recommend telling them taping the control panel shut, or posting signs telling people not to touch the fire alarm. I suspect those intent on fiddling will ignore the sign. While you definitely don’t want to confuse

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  • General Data Protection Regulations or GDPR

    General Data Protection Regulations or GDPR

    GDPR – what is it? The General Data Protection Regulations or GDPR, as it is commonly known, is an EU wide directive that came into law in 2016. You have until May 25th 2018 to be compliant. It is a complete overhaul of the data protection regulations – and applies to charities as well as

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  • Setting Up Your Organisation’s Email Part II

    Setting Up Your Organisation’s Email Part II

    Okay, in Part I we covered the concepts behind email, now it’s time for the… Actions Create an account for the organisation This ensures that all the data that belongs to your organisation is under your control. With the majority of communication taking place via email, the temptation will be to use the email addresses

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  • Setting Up Your Organisation’s Email Part I

    Setting Up Your Organisation’s Email Part I

    Introduction So, you need to hand off some of the jobs within your organisation to others, potentially to volunteers within it or people who are paid to perform those tasks. It looks rather complicated, but is realistically a couple of hours work to set up for any small to medium sized organisation. If your organisation

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  • Providing Guest WiFi At Your Premises

    Providing Guest WiFi At Your Premises

    So you need to provide guest WiFi at your premises and don’t where to start? Then you’re in the right place! I can’t give you chapter and verse, but there are the things that you’ll need to consider: The Legalise Your organisation is legally liable for the traffic that originates from your WiFi network –

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  • ACAT Annual Conference 2016

    ACAT Annual Conference 2016

    Responsibility, Impact & Stewardship This year’s ACAT conference was held Saturday October 15th at Woburn House Conference Centre, London. Money & Monks, Markets & Monasteries Our opening address was Br Dr Anthony Purvis, Prior of St Michael’s Priory, Willen, Milton Keynes talking about the relationship between Thomas Merton and Dom James Fox the Abbot of the

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