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Our #SmallsForSmalls week isn't part of the formal Small Charity Week 2026 programme. It's an unfunded, ad hoc series of informative and fun fringe events organised by the smalls themselves, with support from their friends, to help and promote the fantastic work of all small charities but anyone and everyone is welcome. We have 20 webinars, our recent reports making your voices heard, and resources including 2 new free systems that'll make your life easier. But that's just a little warm up, we have much, much more coming soon. Join us on 9am to 10am on Wednesday, when we launch Charity Excellence 2.0 - you told us what you want and we've re-imagined ourselves to deliver that - it's, very, very different.
Making Your Voice HeardAs part of this year's #SmallsForSmalls week we sent 2 of our reports to nearly 1,800+ grant makers. The first was our Grant Maker's Best Practice guide based on feedback from yourselves in a range of our surveys. It includes a whole range of often very simple, easy to do and low cost or no cost ways to enable grant makers funding to go further, have even more impact and make life just a little bit easier for you. The second was our recent Small Charity Bid Candy survey results. You told us that some larger charities take advantage of you when grant makers specify or value supporting more hard to reach communities that you are so often good at. It offers insights into this issue and ways in which they can help to stop it from happening. |
Here's a guide with tips on making the most of Instagram and Tik Tok contributed by Edinburgh Social Enterprise Network.
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65+ Free Policy Downloads Try our new easy, peasy, lemon squeezy free policy downloads - 65+ of them, by clicking the button below. Other organisations also produce policies but charge at least £100 to access these. All of our policies are free. In the 2 weeks, more than 2000 were downloaded. We know that what policies you might need often isn't terribly clear, so we've expanded and improved our guidance and all of our our policies have been updated to be 'AI Ready' where necessary. |
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Making Your Voice HeardWe recently had a meeting with London Marathon Foundation at which we made the case for greater Marathon access and support for small charities, including presenting them with our report with a whole range of ways in which they might do that. These included your ratings of all the ideas we put forward, plus ideas of your own and, as always, lots of verbatim quotes from you to ensure that your voice is heard. |
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9am to 10am. Charity Excellence 2.0 - Making Small Charities Findable, Fundable and Future‑Ready. A radical re-imagination of charity sector support.
We spent 2 years building the data set and 6 months on research and listening, then completely re-imagined Charity Excellence to deliver what you told us you need. Join us to find out how we plan to tap fully into the huge collective expertise of the sector by making it accessible for everyone, then supercharge it. Join our Charity Excellence 2.0 movement for change by completing this short survey about what capabilities you want us to create that'd most help you. The link will register you via our free new event booking system called Luma. If you're unable to attend, register for it and you will be sent a link to the recording which will be published. |
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Free Online Risk Register Our Friends at CAP have also created a free online Charity Risk Register that's quick and simple to use and enables anyone to assess, manage and report risk. We're working with them to create new upgrades that'll make it even more useful for you in the near future. |
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In association with Microsoft, we've launched Charity Excellence Learning, a range of 11 free, certificated, online courses that enable anyone to use AI effectively, keep themselves and their charity safe, and gain valuable career skills.
The 45 min courses require no prior AI knowledge, are completed at your own pace, using engaging bite size lessons, demo videos, practical tasks, and fun quizzes. Plus dozens of checklists and infographics to download, and links to more advanced training, enabling you to take your AI learning as far as you wish to, at no cost. |
Charity Excellence works for any non profit but all of our systems are optimised for small charities and marginalised groups to help level the playing field at least a bit and, because we know it's really tough for you, everything is free.
Plus, 65+ policies, 8 online health checks, the Quality Mark and the huge resource base. Our AI Ready programme and our 11 free online AI training courses.
Find Funding, Free Help & Resources - Everything Is Free.
Thank you to the following brilliant charities and companies for contributing to #SmallsForSmalls week. Click the links to visit their websites and find out how they can support you - Access Insurance, Charity Accounting Partners, Edinburgh Social Enterprise Network (ESEN), Superhighways, CAF Bank, Fair Collective, Law Works, Beeston Clarke Accountants, and the Saltways.
We would be happy to add other free webinars providing these would be of interest and value to small charities. For contributors, the time and any financial costs will be met by those organising events/activities. Any event/activity must be free, and of interest to a reasonable number or segment of smalls. It's fine to say who you are and what you do and it's OK to include your branding, website, contact details etc on slides, but you must not use it as an opportunity to promote your company, goods or services. In participating, all contributors accept that they remain fully responsible for every aspect of their event, will ensure it is safely and well run, complies with all legal and regulatory requirements and, in the unlikely event of a problem, will deal with it, including accepting full responsibility for any claims or complaints arising from it. Send details to ian@charityexcellence.co.uk.
