Charities
Alison Randle • 16 May 2020
For a relatively small word ‘charities’ covers a vast array of organisations. My favourite type has no more than ten full time staff, and usually fewer. I also include in this bracket local organisations with charitable objectives. For these organisations, there is a real heart at the centre of everything. However, there is a potentially unhealthy flipside manifesting as poor boundary setting and unyielding discussions fuelled by passion, despite shared values and vision.
It isn’t the charitable status that interests me; it is the work of the organisation. Charities differ from other voluntary organisations by their legal status and the need to report to the Charity Commission, and apart from the restrictions the status brings to some operational aspects, such as no political campaigning, there are few differences. Much of my work with charities focuses on the organisation’s work for beneficiaries such as project design and planning, monitoring and evaluation, developing funding strategy, governance, training and so on.
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