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Apr 5 2016
Accounting and reporting

Which SORP is right for you?

Helena Wilkinson of Price Bailey weighs up the benefits and challenges for smaller charities that are deciding which SORP they should use, and provides some practical advice.

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Mar 31 2016
Charity finance policy People and culture

Apprenticeship Levy update: what charities need to know

Earlier this month, CFG organised a round table with the Skills Minister, Nick Boles MP, to discuss the challenges the Apprenticeship Levy will impose on the sector and our recommendations on how to mitigate them.

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Mar 24 2016
Charity finance policy

The Tampon Tax: how not to provide sustainable funding for charities

After months of high profile campaigns, this week has brought the welcome news that the UK will no longer apply VAT onto women’s sanitary products. 

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Mar 21 2016

Budget Focus: Welfare in flux - what does this mean for charities?

After Iain Duncan Smith's shock resignation from the cabinet this weekend, the government have announced that they will drop their controversial plans to change the way that the daily living component of the disability benefit - the PIP - is calculated from January next year. This is welcome news, especially for the people that would have been affected by the £4bn cut, and the charities that support them. But there is little time for complacency as the Chancellor will now have to look elsewhere for these savings. How might charities be affected?

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Mar 17 2016
Environmental social governance (ESG) IT technology and digital

Budget Focus: What was hidden in the numbers for charities?

The Office for Budget Responsibility’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook is where the real detail of the Budget resides. What was hidden in the numbers for charities this time around? Here are three things that we should take away.

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