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Topics: Risk / IT, technology and digital / Governance, legal and compliance

Bates Wells’ Head of Data and Privacy, Eleanor Duhs, shares six top tips for charities to consider when deploying or using AI in the year ahead, including key questions to ask developers about AI technologies.

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Topics: Risk / People and culture / Governance, legal and compliance / Financial sustainability / Crisis management

CFG’s new Turnaround Special Interest Group held its first meeting in March and welcomed insolvency experts from FRP Advisory to share their insights and knowledge.

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Topics: Tax and VAT / Risk / People and culture / Leadership and career development / Governance, legal and compliance / Funding / Economy and policy

In the second of her regular policy reports, Ida Karlsson, CFG's Policy Officer, wraps up what's been going on in Parliament and further afield, covering the aid budget cut, new OSCR guidance and dormant assets.

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Topics: Risk / Governance, legal and compliance / Funding

Tamsin Anderson from Mills & Reeve recently presented a comprehensive overview of when and how charities can refuse or return donations at a CFG webinar, drawing on the Charity Commission's guidance and her extensive legal experience in the sector.

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Topics: People and culture / Governance, legal and compliance / Funding / Financial sustainability

In the first of her regular policy reports, Ida Karlsson, CFG's Policy Officer, wraps up what's been going on in Parliament and further afield, including debates on ERNICs and why charities in Scotland are bracing themselves.

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Topics: Tax and VAT / Governance, legal and compliance / Financial sustainability / Economy and policy

Charities with revenue under £1m could be exempted from the Government’s rise in national insurance contributions following a lively debate in the House of Lords on 25 February.

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Topics: Governance, legal and compliance / Fraud

The Charity Commission has issued a regulatory alert highlighting significant upcoming changes that will impact larger charities. Two key developments demand immediate attention from charity leaders and finance teams.

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Read the Winter 2025 edition of Finance Focus (members only).

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Topics: Investment / Governance, legal and compliance

The Charity Investment Governance Principles (CIGP) have been published but what are they and how can you use them? Emma Abbott, CFG, reports from the CIGP launch event and answers your most common questions.

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Topics: Risk / Procurement and resources / People and culture / Investment / Governance, legal and compliance / Financial sustainability / Environmental, social, governance (ESG)

Ruth Jenkins from Keep Britain Tidy and Simon Hughes from Crowe UK take a look at the risks of global heating, their interrelated nature and complexities, and pose important questions on managing risk.

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Topics: Investment / Governance, legal and compliance

One year ago, CFG and a group of charity sector bodies and advisers began the Charity Governance Investment Principles project. Ahead of the launch of the principles on 16 January 2025, Richard Sagar, Head of Policy at CFG, looks back on the past 12 months and the progress that has been made.

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Topics: Risk / Procurement and resources / People and culture / Governance, legal and compliance / Funding / Financial sustainability / Economy and policy / Crisis management

The majority of charity employers are concerned about absorbing significant additional staffing costs following the government's decision to increase Employer National Insurance Contributions, according to CFG's latest survey.

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