For trustees, CEOs and founders doing three jobs at once
Practical guidance for the people running small UK charities - trustees carrying legal duties alongside a day job, CEOs holding a service together with a team of two, and founders working out what they've taken on.
Every article is checked against the regulators rather than against what other people have written, and it's pitched at the scale you actually work at. Nothing here replaces advice on your own situation. It should tell you what the rules say, what they mean at your size, and what to do next.
Twenty supporters giving £10 a month is £2,400 a year. Add Gift Aid, and it’s £3,000. It arrives whether or not anyone runs a campaign, and you can put it in a budget twelve months ahead. That is a modest-sounding…
Two things sink most small charity fundraising plans, and neither is the tactics. The target gets invented rather than derived. A plan that opens with “we’ll raise £100,000” has begun in the wrong place – that number came from ambition,…