Corporate membership

CFG Corporate Membership provides you with a range of excellent networking opportunities through attending our quarterly members’ meetings, regional  events and national conferences as a delegate. Our corporate members find these meetings and events provide a great opportunity to hear about the issues and challenges that charities are facing first-hand, on topics including VAT, tax, investment, leadership, IT , HR and law, and help them to refine their services. 

Members attend our members’ meetings for free, and get discounted tickets for our major conferences, such as our sell-out flagship  Annual Conference event.

 
We allow plenty of time for networking during a lunch or drinks reception, allowing you to grow your contacts and have excellent conversations with charity professionals on a one-to-one basis. 

 “As an organisation, CFG delivers an excellent service to both its corporate partners and its charity members. We have been heavily involved in most of CFG’s offering ranging from speaking at their Members’ Meetings and their conferences, as well as running various training courses for their members. One of our main outputs has been the partnership on the Inspiring Financial Leadership course, which provides charity finance professionals with the skills and expertise to take them to the next stage of their leadership journey.” Jonathan Orchard, Partner, Sayer Vincent 

 
Our Annual Fundraising Dinner is one of our flagship events of the year, hosting over 350 guests. 

This enjoyable occasion is a vital way for CFG to raise funds - the proceeds enable us to fund and develop our core work. It also gives you a valuable way to network with current and potential charity clients - many of whom will also be CFG members. 

Our corporate members can book to sponsor a number of areas alongside hosting tables at the dinner, held this year on Thursday 9 October 2025. Members have the opportunity to book tables at the discounted price of £3,500 – saving £445 compared to the non-member rate. 

If you have any questions, please contact: corporate@cfg.org.uk.

CFG is known for its lively events programme with more than 100 events every year. 88% of charity professional members have attended a CFG event in the past 12 months, and 97% of charity members say they would recommend CFG events to their network.

 
Speaking at our events gives corporate members a fantastic opportunity to raise their profile and position their company as a leader and expert in their field. 

It's thanks to the experts in our community that our events programme is such a huge success. Corporate partners enjoy a wide range of speaking opportunities, putting them in front of the sector's decision-makers.

 
We can't guarantee speaking opportunities for all of our corporate partners, but we will work with you to understand your expertise and how we can help support a speaking opportunity.

  
If you are a corporate partner and are keen to learn more about our speaking opportunities, please get in touch and let us know your fields of expertise. In particular, please let us know if you have any charity clients who could provide insightful case studies, as we are always looking for more of these. 

CFG's Annual Conference (our sell-out flagship event which is the largest charity finance event in the sector) provides an excellent opportunity for our corporate members to exhibit to more than 500 attendees, including 60% senior finance decision makers. 

CFG’s corporate members are given an initial, exclusive early-bird window in which to book a stand. Most of our conference stands sell out during this period - so it's rare for non-member firms to get a chance to exhibit. 

If you wish to find out more about booking an exhibition stand - whether you're a member or not - please contact corporate@cfg.org.uk. Stands for 2025 are now sold out, but please do get in touch if you'd like to enquire for 2026! 

CFG has a wide range of sponsorship opportunities for our corporate partners to raise brand awareness, position yourselves as experts in the sector, and raise your profile. 

Sponsorship enables us to offer valuable resources to our partners (and the wider charity sector) at a reduced cost. It’s the perfect way to demonstrate your commitment to the sector, and to raise your company’s profile amongst our members. 

Sponsoring one of our conferences is a great way to promote your company while also supporting CFG's work.  

We run approximately six sponsored conferences annually, including our Annual Conference Annual Fundraising Dinner,  Investment Conference, and Digital and Technology Conference, and these often have two sponsors each. 

The cost of sponsoring one of these conferences starts at £2,000 and allows our corporate partners to help shape the conversation and be involved in the CFG network.  

We also offer our partners the chance to sponsor topic-specific webinars and roundtables, enabling you to get in front of the right demographic of charity in a more specific setting. These opportunities are very popular and are limited in number, so if you are interested holding one during the membership year, we recommend booking with the CFG team as soon as possible. 

If you are interested in discussing what sponsorship opportunities are coming up, please contact corporate@cfg.org.uk. 

Knowledge Hub 

The CFG Knowledge Hub, rated excellent by members for keeping them informed, allows you to share content, whether as part of a technical development, a ‘how-to’, a thought-leadership opinion piece or case study. 
The expertise and experience of our corporate partners is an essential component of this valued resource. 

More than 6000 charity finance professionals in CFG membership use the Knowledge Hub to stay up-to-date, learn and connect.

 
By contributing, you directly help charity professionals improve their knowledge and services, positioning your organisation as thought leaders and the go-to experts in your field. 

These opportunities are a free member benefit, and if you have topics of interest, we'd like to hear from you. 

1-to-1 Helplines

 
CFG’s charity members can access exclusive one-to-one free initial advice through the CFG helplines on topics including accounting and tax; insolvency; legal; pensions; property; and recruitment and retention. 

Each helpline is supported by a corporate member with considerable experience advising the charity and not-for-profit sectors, providing a real lifeline for our members.
 
Running a helpline is a brilliant opportunity for businesses to add extra value to the charity sector and to improve their own understanding of what concerns charities.
 
Training Events 

Corporate partners also run training events for our charity members, on a range of topics, including VAT, charity finance, and investments.  

These are a brilliant way to directly help charities grow their knowledge, and also provides opportunities to network with our charity members.  

Running training events is a free member benefit, and if you have a proposal for a new training event, we'd love to hear from you at corporate@cfg.org.uk.  

Please find more information on our Advertise with us pages. 

members with the opportunity to share knowledge and ideas, meet, learn and network with other charities with a similar profile and remit. 

We have the following special interest groups: 

• Arts and Museums Specialist Interest Group 
• Finance in Grant making Specialist Interest Group 
• Overseas Specialist Interest Group 
• Large Charities Specialist Interest Group 
• Finance Leaders Discussion Forum 
• Turnaround Group  

There are a number of ways our corporate members can support our special interest groups. For example: 

• Writing thought leadership content for the groups 
• Attending free events and networking opportunities with charities 
• Speaking at their events (we cannot guarantee speaking slots) 
• Hosting in-person SIG events 
• Sponsoring a SIG session 

For more information on our special interest groups, please contact us at corporate@cfg.org.uk. 

Hosting one of our popular events is an excellent opportunity to raise your profile with our members at relatively little cost to yourself. 

We are keen to talk to members who are able to host events of varying sizes for us. Our most frequent requirement is for venues for our Members' Meetings, held several times throughout the year. 

We ordinarily book approximately 50 delegates for these meetings, so you would need to be able to host at least 70 people theatre-style for two and a half hours in the afternoon - with AV requirements, followed by a drinks and canapes reception. 

In 25-26, we will also be seeking hosts for our larger conferences from July 2025 onwards. 

We are always keen to talk to members who have hosting facilities and would like to support our events schedule are able to host events for us, so please do get in touch and let us know what facilities you can offer. 

Corporate membership applies to a whole organisation, with the price brackets determined by the income of the legal entity.  

CFG now operates a rolling annual membership, starting on the first day of each month.  

These prices apply from 1 April 2025. 

For more information, please contact us at corporate@cfg.org.uk.