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Small charities run on a few staff and many volunteers, and the same people handle donations, Gift Aid, volunteers and funders. A charity CRM can build Gift Aid claims, fundraising pages can replace paper sponsorship forms, and free apps can fill volunteer shifts and make appeal designs. An assistant can draft grant answers for someone to check. Trustees stay responsible for the Charity Commission annual return, Gift Aid claims and the Fundraising Regulator's code, so deadlines live in the trustees' own diary first.
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Paste your project notes and the funder's questions into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for a first draft to edit. Free to about $27£20€24A$38C$38 a month.
Registered charities get Canva Pro free: brand kit, templates, AI design help and a post scheduler for appeals and reports. Free.
Volunteers sign up for food bank or shop shifts in the free Spond app, with automatic reminders to anyone who hasn't replied. Free.
Research trusts and funders that match your work and area, with links to their own criteria and deadlines to check. From about $17£13€15A$25C$24 a month.
Beacon checks each donation for Gift Aid as it is saved, builds the claim and sends it to HMRC Charities Online. From about $56£42€50A$81C$79 a month.
Brevo sends a monthly update to supporters who opted in, with a sign-up form and an AI tool to help draft the copy. Free for up to 300 emails a day.
Supporters running a 10k raise money on their own JustGiving pages, with Gift Aid reclaimed for you. Free, plus card fees of 1.9% + 30p a donation.
Zapier emails trustees 60 and 14 days before the Charity Commission annual return and Gift Aid claim dates, as a backup to the trustees' diary. Free.