Ep 25 Planning your Numbers
The Treasurer opens last year’s budget, works down the spreadsheet, and adds a little CPI to everything. The committee approves it. Everyone feels comfortable. Except nobody has actually budgeted for the year ahead — they’ve budgeted for last year, plus a pay rise. Your budget is the first draft of the story you’re planning to tell. Let’s make sure it’s the right story.
Ep 24 Reading the Numbers
Once upon a time, there was a committee that thought their finances were fine and dandy. Three months later, they couldn’t pay their bills — and the story was right there in the numbers the whole time. Nobody knew how to read it. This episode teaches you how.
Ep 23 Who Minds the Money?
There’s a reason people joke about being elected Treasurer while they were in the bathroom. But here’s what nobody mentions: the Treasurer isn’t the only one at the table who’s financially responsible. Every single committee member is. Whether they understand the reports or not. The Financial Confidence series starts here.
Ep 22 Special Guest Interview
Natural justice. Procedural fairness. Two phrases that sound like they belong in a courtroom — but they show up in community clubs and volunteer organisations more often than most committees realise. In this special episode, Kate H and Kate M welcome their very first guest: recently retired Magistrate Maria, with 23 years on the bench and a plain-English explanation for everything.
Ep 21 Compliance Basics
The insurance lapsed four months ago. Nobody noticed until a hire group asked for the certificate of currency. And Dave’s Working With Children Check expired in April. Nobody followed that up either. Compliance doesn’t have to be complicated — it just has to be tracked. This episode shows you how.
Ep 20 Changing the Rules
The Constitution isn’t working anymore. It describes an organisation you no longer are. The committee knows it needs to change but changing it feels too hard, too complicated and too uncertain — so they work around it. Until one day they can’t. This episode covers what to do instead.