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Community Accountancy Self Help (CASH) is a London-based community accountancy project that provides financial advice and training to small charities and community groups.

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What is this service?

Most of our Accountancy Services are free or discounted for groups in Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham. We have dedicated funding provided by these Boroughs.

For other Boroughs, we charge the minimum we are able to afford.

Payroll

CASH advises small charities and community groups to use a payroll service rather than undertake payroll themselves.

CASH offers payroll services at £5/payslip. Here is our CASH Payroll service price list.

Bookkeeping

We can undertake your bookkeeping and have experience of groups with turnovers up to £2 million.  We can also produce the management accounts for your trustees and attend trustee meetings to explain them.

Full cost recovery

We produce full costs recovery models for charities and social enterprises. A simple model for a funding application can be produced in a couple of hours for small organisations. We charge £60 an hour.

We can integrate your accounting system if it’s in Excel, QuickBooks or Sage to produce reports that follow full cost recovery principles and track costs to different projects.  This gives your trustees or boards a better understanding of how resources are being used and what returns are being achieved by them.  It also makes it easier to track spending to restricted funds.  This is a fairly complex piece of work for us, but you get simple understandable reports. 

Unit costs and pricing

Full cost recovery and unit costs are very closely related.  We produce full cost recovery models for charities and social enterprises.  This will tell you the unit costs of different services you provide.  Various pricing models exist which we can discuss with you.   Knowing your unit costs makes bid writing easier and more accurate.  The more you know about your costs the less risk is associated with winning a bid.

Price £420 per day.

The amount of work is related to the size of the organisation, the number of projects and funding streams it has, the software it uses, and the state of its current bookkeeping.  For small organisations with turnovers of up to £60,000, we can often do the work in three hours.

Account packages

We can install QuickBooks and Sage and tailor them to produce management accounts and data for funder returns based on full cost recovery.

Depending on the complexity this can take a day to five days. £65 per hour. We can train your staff to run the systems and offer telephone support.

Financial health check

We can undertake a financial health check on your organisation, either looking across the range of your procedures or focusing on the payroll.

If you’re specifically interested in payroll phone 020 8969 0747 or email deborah@cash-online.org.uk

Charity/CIC registration

We can help you register a range of charity structures, including helping to produce the right governing document. These include:

Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIO) for £700.

Unincorporated charities cost £200.

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CASH

Location

1 Thorpe Close
London

W10 5XL

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