100 VALUABLE WEBSITES
Small charities are required to comply with a
regulatory framework often designed for much larger organisations and
therefore struggle to find
the necessary time and expertise to keep up with the increasing burden. For this reason, there is a
paramount need to make the best possible use of freely available resources.
This page sets out 100
sites which will prove of value to anyone running a small charity. They provide a mixture of free advice from government and industry
sources and good value commercial sites. While I hope they prove of use, I
cannot, of course, be held responsible for their contents.
The symbol # means that a
free electronic newsletter is available.
1-9 Third Sector - Professional
and Regulatory
Bodies
Charity Finance
Directors Group - for third sector finance professionals
Association of Charity Independent Examiners (ACIE)
Association for approved examiners of charity accounts
Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisation
- support network for leaders in the third sector,
Charity
Commission more than a regulator, an excellent provider of advice and
information
#
The Big Society
news from the cabinet office
National Association of
Voluntary and Community Action the national voice of local third sector
infrastructure in England
National Council
for Voluntary Organisations - giving voice and support to civil
society
Charities Aid Foundation
- a charity for charities
The Association for
Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector
10 - 17 Finance
CCLA - COIF - investment
accounts for surplus cash
Unity Trust - specialist bank for charities
HM Revenue and
Customs valuable resource for taxation issues
Sayer Vincent -
specialist charity auditors #
Finance Hub
- hints on funding and finance
#
Charity Business -
outsourcing company
Case Insurance -
insurance brokers for charities
Charity Practitioners' Forum - for Charity Accountants in practice
18 - 24 IT
Citnexus -
software deals for charities
123 Reg - domain
registrations and web hosting
Webworx - website
creators
Paxton Charities
Accounting - general ledger system
CTX -
Portal through which companies can donate their technology to UK
charities
TeamViewer - remote access solution
Ethical IT - IT support for charities
25 - 34 Free
software
Open Office - free
Office suite - compatible with and comparable to Microsoft
AVG - antivirus, free for
personal use, good rates for charities
IRfanview - free imaging
software
Salesforce -
web-based customer relationship management system - free licences for
charities
Copernic - desktop search, never
lose a file
AVG online backup - up to 2gb
free
Ccleaaner - tidy up your system
995 - pdf creator
Gantt Project
- project planning
ZamZar - free file conversion
35 - 42 Employment
Government advice - common employment issues addressed
Personnel
Consultants - specialist charity employment advice
PSC Payroll Services -
payroll outsourcing service
Job Evaluation
- NJC job evaluation system - widely used in the third sector
Job Centre
- advertise jobs for free; wide reach
RoSPA -
health and safety advice #
JobAId - free charities job site
43 - 46 Publications
Third Sector -
widely read weekly
#
Charity Times -
authoritative monthly #
Charity Society -
wide range of news and information
DSC - books and
journals #
47 - 51 Third Sector
Governance
Governance
and leadership -
authoritative standards for governance
Governance
pages - advice for trustees
REACH - volunteer
search service
Trustee Network
- especially for trustees
#
The Honorary Treasurer’s
Forum
52 - 56 Training
DSC - very wide
range of third sector courses and conferences
MANGO - finance
specialists
The Centre -
management and other skills - discounts for charities
Skills
Third Sector - assists with skill development
57
- 74 Fundraising
Business solutions -
fundraising Services, Information and a Community of Support
Institute
of Fundraisers
Fundraising Standards Board
Funding Central
- provides free access to thousands of funding opportunities
MissionFish
- ebay for charities
Charity Choice -
provides free website donation service
Remember a Charity -
Legacies - a possible
source of income
Intelligent Giving
- links charities to altruists
New Philanthropy
Capital - possible funding source
UK Fundraising -
networking site
Raising Funding - general
information
Charites Trust
- payroll giving and corporate donation management agency
Every Click - search engine
that pays you
How 2 Fundraise
- resource for volunteer fundraisers
Invisible
Grantmakers - A publication
giving details of otherwise unknown trusts
Association of Charitable Foundations -
Links to ACF Member
Trusts and Foundations
Charities Direct -
information on grantmakers
75 - 79 Legal
Law works - pro bono
solicitors
Bar Pro Bono - pro bono
barristers
Russell Cooke -
large firm with a strong specialist charity arm
#
Charity
Law
Association
- industry body
Russell-Cooke Voluntary Sector Legal
handbook - excellent resource for legal information
80 - 88
Regional Voluntary Sector Networks
89 - 100 Other
Virgin Trains Charity Line - prime time journeys at off-peak rates
Charities
Evaluation Services - quality and monitoring & evaluation software
Charity Graphics - charity
specialist designers and printers
Charity
Awards - valuble for profile-building
Voluntary resources -
information for voluntary and community organisations #
Know how - nonprofit -
wealth of information
Media Trust -
brings together the media industry and charities.
Small
Charities Coalition - helps small charities access skills,
experience and resources
Foundation for Social
Improvement - delivers free expert knowledge, strategy and support
to help small NGOs secure their futures.
Equality Britain -
Promoting opportunities to people from all sections of the community
British Charities - UK
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