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Topics: Gift Aid / Financial sustainability / Banking and financial services / Accounting and reporting

For this year’s Small Charity Week, alongside our programme of guides, interviews, and policy insight, we conducted some research of small charity members for the second year in a row to get a clearer, more current picture of the pressures they're navigating.

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Topics: Gift Aid / Financial sustainability / Economy and policy / Charity finance policy

This year's CFG Small Charity Survey aims to understand how small charities are coping with a difficult financial environment. The 2025 survey found that many charities were struggling to cope with increasing demand and rising costs, so we now want to know what, if anything, has changed in the last 12 months.

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Topics: Tax and VAT / Governance, legal and compliance / Gift Aid / Economy and policy

Following the new VAT rules which have recently come into effect regarding donated goods, another positive policy exemption for charities has now been introduced.

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Topics: Gift Aid

On Thursday 9 October, CFG held another successful Gift Aid Awareness Day (GAAD), and it was fantastic to see so many charities, corporate partners and sector organisations come together to highlight the importance of this vital tax relief.

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Topics: Gift Aid

Crowe's new Gift Aid hub, launched to celebrate Gift Aid Awareness Day, provides expert guidance, practical tools and training to help charities maximise their Gift Aid income.

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Topics: People and culture / Gift Aid / Funding

On Gift Aid Awareness Day, CFG member Carol Corney-Brotherston, Head of Finance at RNOH Charity, talks about the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) Trust's incredible work and why Gift Aid is vital to its patients.

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Topics: Risk / People and culture / Leadership and career development / IT, technology and digital / Governance, legal and compliance / Gift Aid / Fraud / Environmental, social, governance (ESG) / Economy and policy / Accounting and reporting

Check out what's new in charity finance and beyond... Read the Spring issue of Finance Focus. 

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Topics: People and culture / Leadership and career development / Gift Aid / Fraud / Economy and policy / Charity finance policy

As the year ends, we wanted to share some of our community’s 2024 highlights. It’s fair to say we’ve had an impactful and busy year.

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Topics: Gift Aid

Gift Aid Awareness Day has been and gone for another year. CFG's Dionne Sturdy-Clow and Glyn Sheldon reflect on the campaign and invite you to get involved again next year.

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Topics: Tax and VAT / Gift Aid / Accounting and reporting

HMRC figures show that tax relief for charities and their donors increased by 3% to just over £6bn in the last tax year. Read more about the impact of tax relief, and remember Gift Aid Awareness Day is coming up soon on Thursday, 3 October.

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Topics: Tax and VAT / People and culture / Gift Aid / Financial sustainability

Maximising Gift Aid income is the name of the game... Phoebe Cooper from RSPCA shares how the charity increased opt-in rates and income with behavioural economics and telephones.

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Topics: People and culture / Leadership and career development / Gift Aid / Funding

Thanks to generous funding through The Rank Foundation's Time2Shine programme, CFG has created a brand new post for an aspiring leader. Dionne Sturdy-Clow talks about her new role, how she'll be shaping CFG's #TickTheBox campaign and how she'd like every charity to get involved.

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