Practical guides for small businesses and community organisations

How to save time on admin, automate the repetitive stuff, and make the most of free tools.

A list of process steps, and the same list with a gold reason attached to each step, ready to hand over. Charities & Nonprofits

How to Document a Process So Someone Else Can Run It

Most handover documents only contain the steps. The reasons behind them are what stop the next person either following the process blindly or scrapping it — and you only have those reasons if you looked at the whole thing.

September 2026 Read more →
Illustration of loose documents becoming a structured table of rows and columns. Tools

How to Use Airtable to Run a Small Business

Most small organisations keep their information in documents. Documents can be read, but they can't be counted, sorted or acted on. What changes when you use a table instead — and how to start with one list, for free.

August 2026 Read more →
Illustration of three duplicate documents converging into a single organised record. Automation

How to Stop Doing the Same Admin Task Twice

It isn't a discipline problem — it's a setup problem. Give every piece of information one home, capture it once, and the double-handling disappears. Here's how to spot the work you're doing twice and fix it.

July 2026 Read more →
Volunteers packing period product boxes at All Yours Period Box. Charities & Nonprofits

How to Reduce Admin Time for a Charity

Map how the work actually happens, cut the duplicated steps, then automate the handoffs — usually with free tools. The approach we used to cut one charity's admin from two days a week to about an hour.

June 2026 Read more →
An All Yours Period Box packed with period products and a branded thank-you card. Case Study

How a UK charity cut admin from two days a week to about an hour a week

All Yours Period Box was spending two days a week processing requests by hand. We replaced spreadsheets and a manual email process with a simple Airtable automation. Now it takes about an hour a week.

April 2026 Read more →