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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 / People and culture

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

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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: Risk / People and culture

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.

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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

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

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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: 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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Topics: Risk / IT, technology and digital / Funding / Financial sustainability

Charities should diversify their income sources to ensure that they are financially stable and resilient amid today's economic challenges. Allan Hickie from UHY discusses how your charity can approach income diversification in a number of ways.

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Topics: Crisis management / Financial sustainability / Funding / Risk

The cost of living crisis continues to challenge organisations of every size. Stephen T Dean from Grant Thornton UK takes a look at the pressures charities are facing in 2024 and what they are doing to manage them.

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Topics: Risk / Investment / Environmental, social, governance (ESG) / Banking and financial services

Rachel Titchen, Charities and Investment Director at consultancy Broadstone, calls for a more flexible and adaptive approach to charity investing.

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