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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...
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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%,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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’...
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Charities facing difficult decisions
Adjectives like ‘unprecedented’, ‘challenging’ and ‘catastrophic’ are routinely and appropriately enough being used to describe the times...
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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...
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The Ethical Charity?
How do charities respond to the growing demand by donors, funders and supporters for them to work to ethical standards?
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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...
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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...
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What is Strategic Management?
There are numerous ways to define strategic management, but most include consideration of the long-term direction of an organisation,...
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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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