Over 60’s Friendship lunch in Stanford Dingley
Calling all volunteers that provide food at events like community BBQ’s, cake sales, PTA’s church fetes etc. Come get your level 1 Introductory Certificate in Food Safety
Community learning is fun, motivating and helps ensure your reach your goal!
Achieve an Introductory Certificate in food safety equivalent to a level 1 qualification. Certified by the CIEH (chartered institute of environmental health)
Suitable for anyone who works/volunteers in a food environment occasionally. For example, those helping at cake sales, scout camps, PTA fundraisers and church fetes.
£20 CCB/CBAS members, £30 volunteers, £50 for those training for paid work
Sat 11 May 10.30 am – 2.30 pm
St. James’ Church Centre, Church Lane, Finchampstead, RG40 4LU. Places must be booked:
https://ccberks.wufoo.com/forms/zug1hxk0lyx5ci/
Your skilled trainer Ally has a post graduate diploma in dietetics, 25 years’ experience of working in the food sector, an affiliate member of the CIEH and a registered trainer with the CIEH.
Why not train with a friend/colleague – it makes learning more enjoyable and it is great to share your experience.
Free Emergency Life Support Skills & Defib Training in Earley
Free Emergency Life Skills & Defibrillator training taking place on Wednesday 22nd May at 7pm in St Nicholas Centre, Earley.
Places are limited and booked on a first come, first served basis. To book your place please click here: https://ccberks.wufoo.com/forms/emergency-life-support-skills-defib-earley/
Five a Day Market Garden – fantastic opportunity to join the team.
Spring has sprung! The daffodils are still filling the garden with colour, and the broad beans are in flower.
Would you like to work at Five a Day ? They are recruiting a Project Coordinator (or two job-sharing). Here’s the role description Five a Day Project coordinator March 2019
It’s a wonderful job looking after the garden and working with the different groups who visit. This is an ideal role for someone with horticultural therapy skills and experience. Further details can be found on their website, by click here.
Very quick intro to VAT — Sandy Adirondack
This information is reproduced from Sandy Adirondack’s legal update emails for voluntary organisations. To subscribe to these emails, send details to legalupdate@sandy-a.co.uk.
VAT is an extraordinarily complex tax, but organisations which ignore it do so at their peril. Any organisation, including a charity, which does not register when it has to will face substantial penalties (the registration threshold for 2018-19 and 2019-20 is £85,000 of taxable business supplies – goods or services – in any 12-month period or expected within the next 30 days).
An organisation can register voluntarily if it makes taxable supplies, but its level of these is below the threshold. If it does not do this when it would be advisable to do so, it may lose the opportunity to claim back some VAT it has paid. But the decision to register voluntarily is complex, and should never be taken without advice from a VAT specialist (and for charities, this specialist should have expertise in charity VAT).
Whether a charity is registered for VAT or not, it should be aware of the reliefs available to charities, for example on much charity advertising and many fundraising materials. Failure to claim these will result in paying unnecessary VAT.
Basic resources
- Made Simple guides: VAT. Sayer Vincent accountants, August 2018, 24pp, PDF: via https://www.sayervincent.co.uk/resources/made-simple-guides/. In my opinion, the best starting point.
- How VAT affects charities. HMRC, VAT notice 701/1: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/how-vat-affects-charities-notice-7011.
- VAT. Charity Tax Group: https://www.charitytaxgroup.org.uk/tax/vat/. Similar to the above but explains more of the background, and includes more examples
Connecting Communities in Berkshire 