Knowledge Hub

  • COVID-19 – what planning should charities be undertaking?

    Topics: Charity finance policy
    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 09.03.2020

    By Naziar Hashemi, National Head of Non-Profits at Crowe 

    Time to read: 8 minutes
    More >>

  • What should charities expect from the budget?

    Topics: Charity finance policy
    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 04.03.2020

    By Richard Sagar, Policy Manager, Charity Finance Group.

    Time to read: 4 minutes
    More >>

  • Charities – Changes to Anti-Money Laundering Regulations

    Topics: Fraud
    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 24.02.2020

    By Stephen Cole, Senior Associate at Hewitsons LLP

    Time to read: 3 minutes
    More >>

  • Risk in an uncertain world

    Topics: Investment
    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 13.02.2020

    Nick Murphy, Head of Charities, Partner, Smith & Williamson Investment Management LLP

    Time to read: 6 minutes
    More >>

  • Key messages from the Bank of England’s January Monetary Policy Report

    Topics: Charity finance policy
    Posted by: CFG
    On: 05.02.2020

    On 4 February, the Bank of England delivered its Monetary Policy Report. CFG's Policy Manager Richard Sagar summarises the main findings.

    Time to read: 3 minutes
    More >>

  • Learn, earn and change the world: Social Change Degree Apprenticeship opens for second round of employer partners

    Topics: Charity finance policy
    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 03.02.2020

    By Jamie Hilder, Degree Apprenticeship Manager at Queen Mary University of London

    Today marks the beginning of National Apprenticeship Week, an annual fixture in the apprenticeship calendar where employers, apprentices, parents and teachers come together to celebrate and fire-up conversation around apprenticeships.

    Time to read: 2 minutes
    More >>

  • New research: Charity ‘hopes and fears’ for 2020 and beyond

    Topics: Investment
    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 30.01.2020

    By Brewin Dolphin’s Head of Charities, Ruth Murphy

    Time to read: 4 minutes
    More >>

  • Takeaways from the Migration Advisory Committee report

    Topics: Charity finance policy
    Posted by: CFG
    On: 29.01.2020

    CFG’s Policy Manager Richard Sagar responds to the MAC Report recommendations.

    Time to read: 3 minutes
    More >>

  • Unique Property Survey for the Voluntary Sector

    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 20.01.2020

    Antonia Swinson, CEO of Ethical Property Foundation, explains the background to the Charity Property Matters survey and why taking part is important to the charity sector.

    Time to read: 2 minutes
    More >>

  • Reserves: is it surprising that some charities are taking a conservative approach?

    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 10.01.2020

    Lucy Rhodes, Associate, and Laura Soley, Partner, Bates Wells discuss the complex choices charities face when it comes to reserves.

    Time to read: 3 minutes
    More >>

  • What’s new for audit and accountancy?

    Topics: Accounting and reporting / Environmental, social, governance (ESG)
    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 08.01.2020

    Ahead of her session at the CFG Midlands Conference 2020, Partner at Sayer Vincent, Fleur Holden, provides an update into what’s new in the world of charity audit and accounting.

    Time to read: 2 minutes
    More >>

  • What matters is your desire to change the world, not the skills you bring to the party

    Posted by: Guest blogger
    On: 27.11.2019

    CFG's new Chair, Gary Forster has spent most of his career in logistics before becoming a CEO in 2011. With this transition came a realisation - like logistics, finance is often overlooked. In this, his after-dinner speech at CFG's Annual Fundraising Dinner, he celebrates the accountants, financial controllers, FDs and book keepers that underpin the great work of the voluntary sector.

     

     

    Time to read: 10 minutes
    More >>