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Doing more with less - rabbit out of a hat?
The Cost-of-Living crisis is catching many charities in a pincer movement – as the need and demand for services rise, available funding...


Charities and the inflationary challenge
No matter what we thought life after the covid-19 pandemic would look like, very few of us expected to see CPI inflation hitting 10%,...


Do you take this charity...?
There are over 180,000 UK charities – could (or should!) there be more mergers? Just as in the corporate world, ‘merger’ may well be a...


Why Charities??
A couple of weeks ago Oliver Dowden as Culture Secretary felt it helpful to publicly declare that the new Chair of the Charity Commission...


Are charities over insured?
Nick’s lead article in September’s Charity Finance magazine explores the subject of insurance for charities. It concludes with the...


Charity Leadership - a distinctive calling?
One of the things that has been most welcome during these challenging times has been lecturing weekly – face to face with real human...


What makes faith charities a distinctive part of the sector?
This is a short summary of my reflections in Charity Finance magazine in September. There isn’t any fixed definition of a ‘faith charity’...


Charities facing difficult decisions
Adjectives like ‘unprecedented’, ‘challenging’ and ‘catastrophic’ are routinely and appropriately enough being used to describe the times...


Mapping out a Brighter Future - a theory of change
An effective THEORY OF CHANGE should be an integral part of designing any charity's work, providing a tried and tested explanation of how...


The Ethical Charity?
How do charities respond to the growing demand by donors, funders and supporters for them to work to ethical standards?


Using trading subsidiaries to deliver charity strategy
Charity trading subsidiaries are relatively common, but I wonder how effectively charities consider the bigger picture – what are some of...


Can a charity change its spots?
This is the question I pose in the November issue of Charity Finance magazine. Leading a charity is not simple. Objectives have to be...


What is Strategic Management?
There are numerous ways to define strategic management, but most include consideration of the long-term direction of an organisation,...


Have charities settled for a quiet life when it comes to reserves?
This is the question that I pose in the July edition of Charity Finance magazine. Charity Commission guidance CC19 states that developing...
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