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  • Celebrating women in charity finance

    Topics: People and culture / Leadership and career development
    Written by: CFG
    On: 24.03.2025

    The month of March is when people across the world celebrate the achievements of women and the contributions they make. We speak to a few women about leading the way in charity finance...

    Time to read: 14 minutes
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  • Special Interest Group

    Relating the story of Relate

    Topics: Risk / People and culture / Governance, legal and compliance / Financial sustainability / Crisis management
    Written by: Emma Abbott
    On: 19.03.2025

    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.

    Time to read: 2 minutes
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  • Policy

    Ida's intel: charity policy updates from Parliament and beyond (12 March 2025)

    Topics: Tax and VAT / Risk / People and culture / Leadership and career development / Governance, legal and compliance / Funding / Economy and policy
    Written by: Ida Karlsson
    On: 11.03.2025

    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.

    Time to read: 2 minutes
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  • My Whole Self Day 2025: Building a positive work environment

    Topics: People and culture / Leadership and career development
    Written by: Glyn Sheldon
    On: 11.03.2025

    To mark My Whole Self Day 2025, this article outlines some of Mental Health First Aid England's research on workplace wellbeing, and provides some useful takeaways for how leaders, managers and everyone in an organisation can help create a positive work environment.

    Time to read: 5 minutes
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  • Charities call on government to introduce paid volunteer leave

    Topics: Risk / People and culture
    Written by: CFG
    On: 07.03.2025

    A coalition of charities is calling on the government to introduce statutory paid volunteering leave.

    Time to read: 1 minutes
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  • CFG's volunteering days policy

    Topics: People and culture
    Posted by: Glyn Sheldon
    On: 05.03.2025

    CFG provides our staff with four volunteering days a year, empowering the team to support causes that they care about. This has benefits for our physical and mental wellbeing, as well as for the sector as a whole.

    Time to read: 3 minutes
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  • Event

    We urgently need to talk about risk management

    Topics: Risk / People and culture
    Written by: Emma Abbott
    On: 26.02.2025

    CFG’s CEO, Caron Bradshaw OBE, tells Risk Conference that traditional approaches are broken. It’s time for change, with a new collaborative leading the charge - and everyone's invited! Emma Abbott reports.

    Time to read: 4 minutes
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  • Policy

    Ida's Intel: charity policy updates from Parliament and beyond

    Topics: People and culture / Governance, legal and compliance / Funding / Financial sustainability
    Written by: Ida Karlsson
    On: 26.02.2025

    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.

    Time to read: 3 minutes
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  • Member discount: Join us at Anthropy25 in March

    Topics: Leadership and career development / People and culture
    Posted by: CFG
    On: 12.02.2025

    CFG members are invited to reboot Britain with a 20% discount on this year's Anthropy event in Cornwall. 

    Time to read: 1 minutes
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  • ICYMI: Finance Focus Winter 2025

    Topics: Risk / Procurement and resources / People and culture / Leadership and career development / Investment / Governance, legal and compliance / Funding / Environmental, social, governance (ESG) / Economy and policy / Crisis management / Banking and financial services / Accounting and reporting
    Posted by: Emma Abbott
    On: 29.01.2025

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

    Time to read: 1 minutes
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  • Long read

    Global heating: risk management and strategic thinking in the charity sector

    Topics: Risk / Procurement and resources / People and culture / Investment / Governance, legal and compliance / Financial sustainability / Environmental, social, governance (ESG)
    Posted by: CFG
    On: 19.12.2024

    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.

    Time to read: 12 minutes
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  • CFG's highlights of 2024

    Topics: People and culture / Leadership and career development / Gift Aid / Fraud / Economy and policy / Charity finance policy
    Posted by: CFG
    On: 18.12.2024

    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.

    Time to read: 9 minutes
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