Articles and guides for charity teams

A practical succession planning guide for UK charity chief executives, chairs, trustees and specialists. Proportionate, written down, refreshed annually.

Reflection on what genuinely supports the mental health of UK charity teams: structural workload, line-management practice, EAP basics, and what to retire.

How to write a UK charity EDI policy that staff and trustees actually use: structure, length, operational hooks, and the governance that keeps it alive.

The practical digital basics every UK charity shop should have by 2026: EPOS, gift aid capture, stock visibility, online resale and reporting that holds up.

Structure, register practice and meeting discipline that turn a charity conflicts policy into a working part of trustee decisions rather than tick-box admin.

A grounded sustainability guide for small UK charities: where to start, what is proportionate, what counts as greenwashing, and the governance that makes it real.

The honest test for whether a charity merger serves the mission, the structured alternatives, and the trustee discipline that produces a real decision.

Methods that produce defensible UK charity benchmarks, the data sources that actually apply, and the trustee oversight that keeps the pay framework fair.

The financial literacy trustees genuinely need, the questions they must answer, and the patterns that signal a charity board out of its depth on the numbers.