PQASSO, the Practical Quality Assurance System for Small Organisations, is a performance evaluation system and
quality mark for charitable organizations in the UK. Evaluations use a system of peer review between small charities. The system was created by
Charities Evaluation Services
A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).
The legal definition of a cha ...
, itself a registered UK charity.
Organizations being assessed as meeting a level of compliance with level 2 or above are eligible to carry an official stamp of endorsement by the
UK Charity Commission
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government that regulates registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities. Its counterparts in Scotland and ...
demonstrating that the charity is well managed. PQASSO was re-endorsed by the Charity Commission in 2014.
There are 3 incremental levels of organizational maturity recognized by PQASSO (levels 1 to 3) and defined by a series of management indicators.
Over 100 UK charities currently have a published quality mark under the scheme.
The Improving Quality (IQ) scheme is a successor to the PQASSO scheme, developed by some of those originally involved in PQASSO and maintaining the same approach to quality evaluation.
[Improving Quality]
Introduction to IQ
accessed 29 December 2022
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Charities based in London
Quality management