We’ve prepared the organisational budget for 2019-2020 (our year starts on September 1st so this blog is less late than it sounds). As part of that process we ran our first proper ‘variance analysis’ (or ‘I compared the budget to the actual spend’) for the last organisational budget and you can see it at BudgetvsActualsForThisYear. […]
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Accounts
Our (companies house) accounts for our 2017-2018 financial year are now viewable on the relevant page.
Trustee Terms of Reference
One of the projects we ran recently was developing a ‘Terms of Reference’ for eQuality Time’s Trustees. There were two reasons: So that current trustees don’t overwork themselves So that new trustees know what they are getting in for. The project ran in this GitHub issue (like, much of our work, it was done publicly) […]
Balance sheet at the start of 2019
As per our previous post, we’re making a big effort to improve our finance systems at eQuality Time. As part of this, we’ve changed how we look at financial statements internally. We believe in transparency at eQuality Time, so here’s our Current Balance Sheet. Once we’ve got a few more months of good practice under […]
Reporting on our finances
One of the cool parts of the Comic Relief bid that we won was that they ring fenced some money for us to spend on hiring a consultant to improve our policies and procedures. This was really good, like everybody else we assume that we’re mostly on top of everything: accounts filed on time, thorought […]
Briefings for trustees.
Our trustees work hard for eQuality Time and one of Joe’s main jobs is: Making sure that trustees know everything they need to know Making sure that trustees aren’t overwhelmed by so much detail that they might miss important decisions. So, roughtly weekly, the trustees get a briefing of what’s happening with eQuality Time. I’d […]
The funding applications that made us a better charity (even when we didn’t get them)
People who manage funds that give money to social projects are, by definition, great people having to make hard choices about the best place to put money. It’s also important that people who manage funds keep to the lowest possible overhead. It takes money to keep applicants up to date and give feedback and we accept […]
eQuality Time is offically a registered Charity!
“Dear Contact You have applied to register the above organisation as a charity. We are satisfied that EQUALITY TIME LTD is a charity and it has been entered onto the Register of Charities with the Registered Charity Number 1177233.” Yes, we have finally found time to offically register as a charity! The process involved jumping […]
Opening up our bid writing process
Most of eQuality Time’s projects need grant funding to run. So we’re keen to get good at writing grant applications. We also want to be as transparent as possible. We decided to bring these things together. This blog post was created to document the process of applying to Virgin’s #iwill Take Action fund with the […]
Open Voice Factory was on TV! Disruptive Tech TV
A few months ago in November, Open Voice Factory was featured on Disruptive Tech TV. This is the first UK 24/7 technology TV channel covering technology news and events worldwide. Open Voice Factory applied to be on their Disruptive Pitch TV show. Described as a sort of Dragon’s Den, it’s an online TV program for […]