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This article from Bates Wells' Caroline Morris, Olivia Hyland and Laura Hobbs, explores how charities are using new forms of technology, and the challenges and opportunities that are presented as a result. 

In the final instalment of this three-part series focusing on financial culture, Simon Perks investigates the role that rituals and routines, symbols and stories play in helping organisations to create a culture of financial awareness and accountability.

The first article in this three-part series introduced the cultural web as a way of understanding an organisation’s financial culture. In this second instalment, Simon Perks takes a deep dive into organisational structure, power structures and control systems, and explores how we can use them to bring about positive cultural change.

Clare Mills, Co-CEO, Charity Finance Group, shares her reflections since the launch of CFG’s Charity Banking Report, and considers how to build resilience for when the systems and services we rely on falter.

Do standard risk labels still work for charities? Luke Apps from atomos asks whether investment industry's terminology around risk still works for charities - and questions whether it ever worked in the first place.

An organisation’s culture lies at the heart of everything it does, including the way it thinks about and manages its financial resources. In this three-part series, Simon Perks explores how charities can better understand their financial culture, and how this understanding can drive financial awareness and accountability.

Charity banking services debate in the House of Lords highlights challenges raised in CFG's new report. 

CFG's Head of Policy, Richard Sagar, looks at the announcement from new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, regarding the VAT cut for electricity bills and, though some details are still to be ironed out, he provides an overview of what's been said, and what charities need to be aware of.

At this year's CFG Annual Conference, Sarah Fletcher, Chief Operating Officer at Alder Hey Children's Charity, led a session titled ‘Why putting people at the heart of strategy supports organisational growth and sustainability’. Her simple message was that the charities that invest in their people don't just do right by their staff, they grow faster, raise more, and become more resilient in the process.

CFG’s 2026 Annual Conference opened and closed with two inspirational speakers – Hetti Barkworth-Nanton CBE, CEO of Ploughshare and Chair of Refuge, and Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, former CEO of Turning Point and current Chair of the NHS Confederation. Together they explained how finance professionals are key to change and progress.

The next wave of the VCSE Barometer survey is now out. Have your say about the state of the sector and let's continue to influence policy-makers together.