Articles and guides for charity teams

How Gift Aid works, which donations qualify, how to register and claim through HMRC, and the mistakes that get claims rejected. A plain guide for charity teams.

Practical UK charity guide to DNSSEC and domain hardening: registrar controls, DNS integrity checks, and layered protections to reduce phishing and outage risk.

How UK charities can create cross-team campaign briefs that reduce late rewrites through clearer objectives, ownership, and pre-production alignment checks.

A practical UK charity guide to audit-ready consent records: the fields, the diagnostic queries, the legal basis choices, and a quarterly hygiene routine.

How UK charities can build community fundraising toolkits volunteers actually use through concise content, practical checklists, and low-friction support.

How UK charities can deploy Cloudflare safely for speed and security: DNS onboarding, caching, WAF rules, bot control, and donation-flow safeguards.

How UK charities can design volunteer recruitment funnels that convert: faster response times, lower-friction forms, clear onboarding, and better retention.

What VAT is for charities, why they are not simply exempt, the reliefs you can claim, and when reclaiming is possible, for trustees and finance teams.

What good charity governance looks like: governing versus managing, building the right board, and running meetings that decide rather than just update.