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Week 2: The ‘Trust Me’ Treasurer: Why One Person Should Never Control All the Cash

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🛑 STOP Being Stupid: Week 2 of 40

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A Cautionary Tale: The Nice Person Who Nicks the Lot

Right. Let’s talk about your Treasurer.

They’re usually the hero of the hour, aren’t they? They volunteer to wrestle with spreadsheets while everyone else suddenly remembers urgent appointments. They understand debits and credits. They turn up to meetings with actual paperwork. And generally speaking, they’re a decent human being.

We trust them. They’re part of the team.

This trust is exactly where the stupidity begins.

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The Unverified Trustee: Week 1: Why Your Charity Could Be Breaking the Law (and You Don’t Even Know It)

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🛑 STOP Being Stupid: Week 1 of 40.

Read time: 5 minutes

Right. Let’s not mess about.

There’s a new piece of mandatory compliance that’s about to land your charity in a proper mess if you ignore it. And I mean the kind of mess that makes accidentally double-booking the village hall look like a minor admin blip.

We’re talking about mandatory Identity Verification for Companies House.

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💥 Get Ready for the Catastrophe: The Art of Stupidity’s 40-Week Charity Fails Masterclass

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The Stupid is Coming…

Right, listen up.

I’ve spent too much time watching well-meaning charities make world-class, utterly avoidable, administrative disasters.

We’re talking about the simple, everyday failures that put your funding at risk, land your trustees in legal hot water, and make the whole sector look like it’s being run by people who found their job description in a Christmas cracker.

I’m calling time on pretending everything is fine.

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