Fundraising
Fundraising rules, the essentials
If your charity asks people for money, you need to know who regulates you and what the Code of Fundraising Practice expects.
Open → BriefingWorking with companies, the rules
When a company offers your charity money, whether it is a donation or sponsorship decides the tax, the paperwork and the questions you must ask.
Open →Governance and trustees
AI and your charity, the trustee briefing
One page to print for your trustees. It explains what AI is and what their duties are, and gives them questions to ask and decisions to record.
Open → BriefingData protection, the essentials
If your charity holds information about the people it supports, its donors, volunteers or staff, there is law you must follow.
Open → BriefingTrustee duties, the essentials
Not sure what the law expects of you as a trustee? Read this before your meeting to learn the six duties from the Charity Commission's guidance, the seven tests for a decision that will…
Open →Money and finance
Charity finance, the essentials
About to sign your charity's accounts and not sure you follow them? Read this first and you will know which kind of accounts your income allows, what the SORP is, when you need an examiner…
Open → BriefingFraud and cyber security, the essentials
Worried about fraud or a hacked email account, with no IT support to call on? Read this to learn the frauds that hit small charities, the handful of controls that stop most of them, what…
Open →Services and volunteers
AI and safeguarding
If your charity uses AI to write letters, summarise notes or answer questions online, some of that touches your safeguarding duty.
Open → BriefingSafeguarding, the essentials
Not sure what the Charity Commission expects you, as a trustee, to do about safeguarding?
Open →Comms and supporters
AI essentials
AI and your charity, the need to know
What a UK charity needs to know about AI, covering the rules, what funders think and the risks, with a link to the source for each point.
Open → BriefingAI and data protection
If your staff or volunteers paste text into AI tools, the UK GDPR expects certain things of your charity.
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