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  • Finance Focus Spring 2025: A time of renewal and transformation

    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
    Written by: Emma Abbott
    On: 24.04.2025

    Check out what's new in charity finance and beyond... Read the Spring issue of Finance Focus. 

    Time to read: 1 minutes
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  • What has EDI ever done for US?

    Topics: People and culture / Environmental, social, governance (ESG) / Economy and policy
    Posted by: Caron Bradshaw
    On: 23.04.2025

    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?

    Time to read: 3 minutes
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  • Policy

    Charities SORP Consultation: Get involved!

    Topics: Governance, legal and compliance / Economy and policy / Accounting and reporting
    Written by: Richard Sagar
    On: 17.04.2025

    What is the SORP Consultation? Why does it matter? And why and how should you get involved? Richard Sagar, Head of Policy, CFG, answers these questions and more.

    Time to read: 3 minutes
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  • Policy

    Consultation on financial thresholds in charity law

    Topics: Governance, legal and compliance / Economy and policy / Accounting and reporting
    Written by: Richard Sagar
    On: 16.04.2025

    Your evidence and views on the thresholds relating to accounting and reporting are invited, as CFG prepares to respond to the consultation.

    Time to read: 2 minutes
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  • Policy

    The Spring Statement 2025

    Topics: Tax and VAT / Pensions / Economy and policy
    Written by: CFG
    On: 26.03.2025

    CFG's policy team - Richard Sagar and Ida Karlsson - take a look at today's Spring Statement to dissect what the announcements and OBR forecasts mean for the charity sector.

    Time to read: 8 minutes
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  • Research

    "A perfect storm”: Charity leaders’ facing difficult decisions ahead of next month's NI rise

    Topics: Tax and VAT / Economy and policy / Charity finance policy
    Written by: CFG
    On: 20.03.2025

    A survey of 45 charity leaders reveals significant concerns remain over the impact of the rise in employer national insurance contributions, with many charities already cutting services and staff.

    Time to read: 9 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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  • Policy

    Peers vote to exempt small charities from rise in ERNICs

    Topics: Tax and VAT / Governance, legal and compliance / Financial sustainability / Economy and policy
    Written by: Emma Abbott
    On: 26.02.2025

    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.

    Time to read: 4 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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  • Policy

    Impact of National Insurance rise on charities raised in House of Commons

    Topics: Economy and policy
    Posted by: CFG
    On: 10.01.2025

    In a parliamentary debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday 7 January, the issue of the impact of change to employers’ National Insurance contributions on the charity sector was raised.

    Time to read: 2 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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  • Research

    Report: CFG's survey reveals deep concern over rise in ERNICs

    Topics: Risk / Procurement and resources / People and culture / Governance, legal and compliance / Funding / Financial sustainability / Economy and policy / Crisis management
    Written by: CFG
    On: 03.12.2024

    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.

    Time to read: 15 minutes
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