Category: Charity Management
Advice and tips on how to manage and run your charity
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Quaker A-Z: R is for Reduction & Rest
Reducing Reports One of the things I hear from clients is the wish that there were fewer things to do, fewer reports to read, fewer risks to worry about and mitigate against… I’ve hopefully given you some ideas on how to simplify and streamline your priorities as you manage your charity – while still ensuring
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Quaker A-Z: Q is for Quiz!
Quick Quiz! Did you know that the Charity Commission has educational resources? They also have a quiz which can help you pinpoint any gaps in your knowledge. The Charity Commission’s research shows that around 98% of trustees feel ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ confident in managing or governing their charity. When questioned on basic role requirements, on
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Quaker A-Z: Payroll Promulgation
Payroll – Paying people perpetually perplexes people… Some of the common questions we are asked: Who needs to be paid? What to pay people? Where to pay and store records? When to pay people? Why pay people? How to pay people? and a few more… Who needs to be paid? Charities have volunteers – many
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Quaker A-Z: O is for Open Outreach Operations
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Are you open for outreach operations? Last Wednesday (at the second of this month’s free training/webinar sessions), we talked about how a meeting, or any charity, should be open to others. Especially open to those around them who might want to find them and join or support them. We
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Quaker A-Z: N is for Numbers
Flipchart from Alison Gray’s presentation. Or Finances – for those who don’t like numbers! Spreadsheets can be complicated and off putting. Trying to explain who spends what, and why it’s important that we know who spends what and when they spend it can be tricky to get across. ‘We don’t need a budget‘ is something
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Membership
Membership is a tricky word Quakers talk about Membership (note the capital M) and mean someone who has formally been recorded as a member of a specific Area Meeting. But in this post, I’m thinking about what helps us feel that we belong to a worshiping community – whether or not we’ve been formally recorded.
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Quaker A-Z: L is for Legal Obligations
Coulda, Shoulda, Maybe list MBS is often asked to review policies for clients, and as part of that someone will say, ‘make sure we have what we need‘ or similar. Sadly, the Charity Commission doesn’t supply a simple or straightforward list of policies and procedures that you need to legally have. Instead, they expect you
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Quaker A-Z: K is for Knitting
Photo by Stephane Gagnon on Unsplash Avoiding dropped stitches Annual reports are often a cobbling together of bits from various people, groups or committees, with a bit at the front from the clerk or chair and then at the end from the treasurer or trustee with financial responsibility…. Even listing out all the people involved
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Quaker A-Z: I is for Information
Information and information overload One difficulty for many new trustees – or even experienced ones – is information overload. There is just so much to be known, and there is the fear that you’ve not learned something important, or have learned something that isn’t correct or doesn’t apply to your charity. Photo by Giulia May
