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Topics: People and culture / Financial sustainability

As The Joshua Tree approaches its 20th anniversary, we speak with CEO Richard Driffield about how they’re supporting families and the challenges of being a small charity.

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

As income declines, the demands, costs and stress levels keep rising. CFG’s survey of its small and micro charity members paints a picture of the financial pressures they face.

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Topics: People and culture / Investment / Financial sustainability

In two weeks' time, we'll be gathering at CFG's 2025 Annual Conference. We speak with Sophie Ward from HSBC Global Private Banking about this year's theme: Strong Foundations, Lasting Impact – and why getting the fundamentals right is everything in today's volatile landscape.

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Topics: People and culture

This Volunteers Week, we're celebrating our own volunteers, and echoing calls for the government to introduce statutory volunteering leave. While we await potential policy changes, we can lead the way to extend volunteering far beyond our own organisations.

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Topics: People and culture

As we celebrate Volunteers Week 2025, CFG takes immense pride in recognising the extraordinary contributions of volunteers both within our own organisation and across the charity sector as a whole.

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Topics: People and culture

Volunteers Week comes at a critical time for the charity sector. Volunteer numbers are down and if the trends continue, the very foundations of community support could be at risk.

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Topics: People and culture / Leadership and career development / Accounting and reporting

We talk to Carol Rudge from HW Fisher about what this year’s CFG Annual Conference theme – Strong Foundations, Lasting Impact – means to her, and why this is a big year for charity finance.

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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 / Environmental, social, governance (ESG) / Economy and policy

In an article originally published in Charity Times in March 2025, CFG CEO Caron Bradshaw discusses equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and asks what, if anything, could we learn from Donald Trump?

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Topics: People and culture / Leadership and career development / IT, technology and digital / Governance, legal and compliance

CFG Chair, Hugh Wallace, describes his journey in the charity sector which led him to his role on the CFG Board and to eventually being appointed as Chair. Hugh talks about some of the challenges of the role as well as his excitement at leading the organisation through a digital transformation. 

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Topics: People and culture / Governance, legal and compliance / Economy and policy

With the new financial year beginning, it’s imperative that charities feel prepared for change – and the biggest is Employer National Insurance contributions and Employment Allowance changes announced at the Autumn Budget 2024, which have now come into effect.

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Topics: People and culture

Steve Mahon pays tribute to his friend and fellow CFDG (CFG) trustee Tom Sterry MBE.

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