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Charities Alert

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If you’re involved in the charity sector, its vital you remain up-to-date with the latest regulatory changes that may impact you and your organisation.

Governance

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Better reporting

This guide offers tips and advice on best practices and some useful framing to help you on your reporting journey.

Building resilience

Responsive strategies in uncertain times.

ESG Strategy

Making positive and purposeful change by aligning our values and making sustainable measurable improvements in performance.

Climate Change Making decisions today for tomorrow

The risks, responses, reporting, governance and assurance for social purpose and non profits.

Care Sector Survey Insights 2021

Analysing the challenges and opportunities for providers of care in 2022 and beyond.

Improving efficiency and productivity

How charities can navigate current challenges in the sector.

Charities and Insolvency

Guidance on managing solvency crises and preventative measures.

Creating an ethical culture for charities

What can charities do to build and maintain an ethical culture?

Value creation in the Non Profit sector

Good governance is always expected, but it should never stifle.

Managing in uncertain times

New challenges that require specific attention need to be considered and as they impact on charities in a number of ways.

Decision making in a challenging environment

Is your management information fit for purpose, you need to consider the new guidance published by the Charity Commission

Effective Boards for Charities

To continue to hold the public's trust, charities require good corporate govenance which means effective boards.

Charities how to develop a effective strategy

Where to start to develop an effect strategic plan, and some tools to help you.

Charity board size, when less is more

Explaining the optimum size for governing board effectiveness.

Risk and Reserves

Better Reserves Management

Understanding your resources to safeguard your future.

Global Heating

Ruth Jenkins, Keep Britain Tidy and Simon Hughes, discuss global heating risks and key questions on managing these interrelated challenges.

Eight hallmarks of a risk aware Charity

Working with charities in these areas has led us to identify certain hallmarks of risk aware organisations.

SECR: The basics and beyond

Review of Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting disclosures in charity accounts.

Charities: Going concern

This guidance will help Trustees and management meet the statutory and other financial requirements.

Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR)

New requirements mean that larger organisations must adhere to new disclosures as part of their annual reporting.

Benchmarking Charities

Now more than ever charities are focusing on results, reducing costs, focusing on efficiencies and on innovation.

Charities: The importance of measuring impact

The operating environment is more challenging than ever, with increasing regulation, falling income and increasing costs.

Neither true nor fair

A review of accounts of a few charities and purports to show that not enough of the income is going on charitable expenditure.

Establishing key performances indicators

Part of the challenge for charities is in most cases your aims are less visible and quantifiable than those for a commercial organisation.

Non Profits: How to manage strategic reserves

Focus on the management of strategic reserves should be built into your charity's planning cycle.

Impact reporting for charities

Impact reporting for charities is complex and requires a subtle analysis on a case by case basis.

Non Profits: From input to impacts

The reporting of outputs, outcomes and impacts currently has a great focus in the non profit world.

Charities reserve management

Charities need to make a genuine attempt to formulate a reserves policy and understand how this be be impacted in the short term.

Reporting on solvency and liquidity risks

In the uncertain economic conditions there has been necessarily been a great emphasis across the charity sector on financial monitoring.

Reserves policy, setting and implementing

The tough economic times are forcing charities to look hard at their reserves policy.

The setting of a charity's risk appetite

How risk management is particularly important for charities.

Risk management: lessons from the Pandemic

Outlining seven key areas particularly important for organisations during and after the pandemic.

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