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Charitable links to raise money FREE
Way back in 2006 Forumites started a list of websites which enabled you to help charities without incurring any financial cost. That list was a bit outdated, so we're starting again for 2021 and onwards: 🔎 Search engines * EasySearch * Ecosia * Savoo * SearchScene * Search for a Cause / Tab for a Cause * YouCare 🖱 'Click n…
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Charities Board Welcome and The Rules
Welcome to the MoneySavingExpert Charity Board The aim of this is to do anything and everything to help charities, so that collectively others can benefit too. Already by using this site charities are being helped as there's a substantial charities fund. Also do read the 'Charity Giving' and 'Feed The Starving At No Cost…
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Raising money for homeless
I missed out on dream house after the person selling pulled out. I am so grateful I still have a house and want to raise awareness of people being homeless. How can I raise the profile of the gofundme page to maybe get a bit more shares online? Maybe Facebook? Anything else? It’s for Salvation Army
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Debt cic
Hi about 5 years ago I was a director for a food hub none profit .It was cic there was 3 directors at the time. The accounts were late and subsequently the cic was dissolved. One of the directors carried on from 2020 after it had dissolved and just run it as a community group helping to feed people in financial difficulty.…
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Vat on a charitable donation
So I had to get my dog spayed today. I am disabled and living on benefits. A local charity pledged a donation of £200 towards the cost. When I got the bill from the vets, I discovered they had taken Vat off of the charitable donation. So instead of having £200 off the cost of the total bill, I only actually got £166.67…
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No Fee Bank Account for non profit group
Hello, we are a non profit support organisation. Any contributions are used to pay room rent, refreshments, support literature, etc and any remaining monies are forwarded to our region office. We support ourselves. The UK governing body are a registered charity but use of this is not available to individual groups. Are…
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Help with travel costs to and from chemotherapy
Are there any schemes to support with travel costs to and from chemo if you’re not already on benefits? Sadly I find myself in a situation where I am starting chemo next month and I live alone and will need to cope with all this all alone. I have a reasonable income but nurse told me not to take buses back from chemo and…
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Dealing with a staff dispute at a charity
I volunteer as a trustee at a small local charity. One manager has been accused of speaking harshly and rudely to a member of another manager's team, upsetting other members of the team. I really don't want this to have to go to a disciplinary, so I wondered if there were suggestions for dealing with this sympathetically?
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Is there any help for people with unusual health conditions?
near the end of 2023 I suffered an injury which caused my pudendal nerve to become trapped and the pelvic floor muscles to chronically tighten. im 39 and male. I was not insured and self employed so this has destroyed my business and put me into financial hardship. I have 3 children and am in non stop burning stabbing and…
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Advice On How Work Is Paid For - Salaried Employee or Self-Employed
Hi All, I have a quick question regarding whether there are any hard and fast rules regarding whether someone performing admin work on behalf of a charity should be employed or is free to invoice for their hours worked as a self-employed person. This is for a small charity, which, other than this small number of hours per…
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Timeline to spend funds
Hello. I work for a charity and helped to organise a fundraiser for them for a specific cause. It was to redecorate an area used by people using the charity. The main donation was made in July 2023 and the rest came in January 2024. There have been so many excuses why the money has not been spent - mainly based on not…
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Just giving
Does anyone know the email address for their data protection officer?
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Long term Charity donations / compound interest
Goodday, As my father has passed away I am receiving some inheritance. I believe in paying 10% forward to charity. The 10% will be somewhere in the region of 10-20,000 GBP. Now I would like to see the amount grow annually. Hence I am contemplating a scheme where I donate 10% of the 10% straight away and put the rest aside…
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Are there any other tax deductables other than Gift Aid for Basic Rate PAYE?
Hi I am in the process of organising some charity payments. I am an employee and paye tax through PAYE. Basic Rate. I understand I can choose the Gift Aid option for the UK charities. I've just been reading around on the subject and several articles discuss other possible tax deductibles. Would any of them apply to me or…
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Where to donate used UK postage stamps
For years we've been sending these to Macmillan Cancer but this year they've stopped accepting them. Internet searches come up with a whole lot of inaccurate institutions who no longer accept them too. Does anyone have an up to date information and link on who might still like to receive these please.
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Is this questionable practice?
Long story - I reclaimed vet fees which I donated to charities. I donated a fairly large amount (400) to an animal charity after I saw that they had a campaign to raise £4k to care for their animals. They have a list of donations given by supporters and just before my donation, they had raised 650 from 21 donations. My one…
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Reporting a scam
Hello everyone, Our small charity keeps recieving unsolicited postal mail from an individual asking for financial help as he's "dying from cancer". My online research indicates he's a fraud. I don't want some other charity to fall victim to his scam, but who exactly do I report him to? Charities commission, police, county…
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Trouble Reclaiming Charity's Bank Account
Got an interesting one. Reclaimed a dormant CIO with the help of the Charities Commission using their s80 powers from the Charities Act, as all the original Trustees had unfortunately died, to bring it back online. One of our actions has been to try to regain access with the Charities account, held by NatWest. They are…
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Gift aid
just watched Martin's video about how gift aid will not cost you anything - i stopped using it a few years ago because .... I complete a tax return and usually get a rebate. They ask have you used giftaid and how much? I noticed that if I siad yes and how much, my rebate was reduced - this looked right to me, so using…
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FACEBOOK CHARITY DONATIONS
4 payments I had donated to 1 charity via Facebook /Meta were refunded to me after 18 MONTHS (others from the same time are apparently fine, assuming FB accounts are honest) - I want to know why & WHERE that money has been for 18 months - But trying to get any dialogue from FB 'support centre' is impossible; I uploaded the…
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Gift Aid query
Hi, The Am-Dram group I'm Treasurer of has been successful in getting charitable status for our work in the Hartlepool/Durham community. I'm going to make a Gift Aid claim against the donations our members make towards our running costs. Having read the HMRC literature I'm confident I understand the criteria for claims in…
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Potential Charity Fraud Or Breach Of Data
I'm just posting here because I need some advice. Yesterday I received a letter from a charity (I won't name them because I suspect they are innocent in all of this) that reads that they are happy that I'm going to be running a marathon for their charity. They were giving all kinds of fundraising ideas and told me what to…
