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• Members
• Fundraising Events and Handling of Funds
• Google Adsense
• Event hosts and Sponsors
• Choosing a Charity
• Our Agreement with the Charity
• Contacts
Members
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Those members under the age of 18 are asked not to attend events held in
licensed premises after 9pm. Those under the age of 16 are expected to
provide parental consent when engaging in any sponsorship events.
Positions within Nice to be Nice NI are informal. Those who wish to be more
involved in the day to day running and administration should contact co-
founders Rebecca Volley, Sinead Tighe or Natalie Aspin (see contact) for
details how. An annual general meeting will be held each year in March, to
discuss the year’s previous events and the coming years chosen charity. All
members are invited to attend.
Each member can opt to sign up to a monthly email or RSS feed on our blog.
In the interests of saving money and paper we do not offer a regular
equivalent by post. If anyone cannot receive emails but would still like to be
kept up to date, we will publish a quarterly publication that details selected
news and all fundraising account details. This will only be available on
request.
Fundraising and Handling of Funds
Nice to be Nice NI intends to hold numerous fundraising events and take part
in sponsored events throughout the financial year, with the aim of
approximately one each month or twelve per anum. However we understand
that circumstances such as member involvement, venue availability etc may
affect this. As a result we cannot guarantee that the same number of events
will be held each year, though we will always endeavour to meet the
minimum target when possible.
We require a receipt from all our charities, a copy of which will be made
available to anyone on request.
Nice to be Nice NI members may take part in pre-existing events such as fun
runs etc for sponsorship. Where events already exist with the option of
sponsorship we will encourage our members to adopt the chosen charity,
though they are under no pressure or obligation to do so. We will never
actively campaign against existing sponsorship or fundraising commitments
with other charities.
The Nice to be Nice NI blog will feature the Google Adsense and Google
search bar feature. All revenue from this will go to the chosen charity, but
will first be sent in cheque form to a designated member. This is due to the
fact that the name on the account cannot be changed once finalised, and we
wish to repeat the process for the next charity. Each month we will issue the
charity with a copy of the ad revenue calculated by Google so that they can
monitor what they will be receiving. Google only issues cheques on a
monthly basis providing that revenue has reached £60. If the monthly total is
less than this it will carry onto the following months until the total is reached.
While we will encourage our members and site visitors to visit our sponsors,
ourselves and Google will not tolerate ‘clicking circles’ organised to
manipulate ad revenue.
In order to maintain tax exemption status for our charity we abide by the
Value Added Tax (Fundraising Events by Charities and Other Qualifying
Bodies) Order 2000, meaning that:
The event must be organised and promoted exclusively to raise money for the
benefit of a charity, or another qualifying body. 'Other qualifying bodies'
include a charity’s wholly owned non-charitable trading subsidiary;
The event must be one that can be held for fundraising purposes; these are
There is a limit to the number of events of the same kind at any one location in
any one financial year of the charity; no more than 15 events of the same kind
can be held in any one location.
We rely wholly on the generosity of venues that are willing to let us use their
premises free of charge, with no percentage of door tax going to the venue
itself. However as a thank you to those people and businesses who do allow
us the use of facilities or who donate prizes and gifts, offer gratis services
such as design, advertising or printing services etc, we will extend
appreciation and promotion on our websites and social networking sites. This
also extends to the likes of performers, bands, DJs etc.
We also extend advertising right to the venues themselves i.e. they can
promote any event held on their premises through their own media and
publicity department.
We will always ensure that venues and events are sensitive to the charities
and attendees in question, for example, that family orientated or children’s
events are held at suitable times, that sensitive issues such as addiction and
alcohol charities are happy with the event and venue chosen (see
Commitment to Charities).
Choosing a Charity
Each year charities will have the chance to be chosen as our yearly charity.
Anyone can nominate a charity for consideration, members, non members or
the charity itself. In the case that the charity is not aware of its nomination,
we will advise them of this, and provide them with the chance to opt out
should they wish.
In the case of larger charities we may ask for specific projects and schemes
that are in need of fundraising, thus ensuring that money raised is directed
at grass roots level. This may also be the case for charities that already
receive substantial funding from the likes of NHS Trusts or similar.
In all cases evidence should be submitted along with the objection. *In the
case of ‘objectionable groups’ we understand that this is of course subjective
and this may be left to members to decide upon voting. We do not accept
objections on religious grounds, unless there is evidence to suggest that
charity has been known to exercise sectarian practices in its work. We would
prefer for all charities to have little to non political affiliation within the UK or
ROI, again this is subjective and not reflective of individual charity
employees.
In the case of our inaugural year (2010/2011), the charity was chosen by
founding, and at the time, only members, Rebecca Volley, Sinead Tighe and
Natalie Aspin.
Our Agreement with the Charity.
Although Part II of the Charities Act 1992 and The Charitable Institutions
(Fundraising) Regulations 1994 specifically discusses a commercial
participator or professional fundraiser acting without an agreement
with the charity, we as non-professional fundraisers will still abide by this
notion. We will always ensure that the chosen charity is aware of their
selection and a notice of commitment to a year long fundraising will be made
between ourselves and the charity. This agreement will be visible at all
events.
We agree the following with every charity that is selected to be our Annual
Charity:
The chosen charity will be given advanced notice of at least 30 days as the nature
of an event so that charities may seek an injunction restraining any other person
raising funds in the name of the charity where:
In this case, at least 28 days before seeking an injunction the charity must give
notice in writing to the person who is raising funds:
When notice periods given by Nice to be Nice are less than the 30 days stated
above we will also revise the objection period for the charity.
Where objections are raised we will do everything in our power to ensure that the
charity is happy with the type of event or fundraising being organized. When an
agreement cannot be made, the event will be cancelled. If persistent objections
and resulting cancellations are made by the charity, Nice to be Nice NI reserves
the right to end it’s relationship with the charity, on consultation with all its
members.
With the exception of Google Adsense, no Nice to be Nice NI member will accept
any cheques made out a personal bank account, nor will they allow any funds to
be lodged into their own accounts.
We also require that the charity provide us with a receipt, either at the time or
within 5 working days of receiving the money. A copy of this receipt will be made
available to anyone on request.
Nice to be Nice NI will promote any events and news that the charity is currently
working on, irrespective of its involvement with our own fundraising projects.
This will be on our blog, social networking groups and newsletters. We advise
that a member of your events, project or promotions team contact us with these
details as and when they take place.
The agreements made with the charity are those of good faith, and not a
legally binding contract or commitment.
Email: nicetobeniceni@googlemail.com
Group/Member Contact
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