What will you learn from the Conference?
Alongside accounting, tax and VAT updates for charities, the ICAEW Charity Conference 2025 will also help you understand the changes arising from the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA). Learn from legal expert, Jonathan Brinsden, how these changes, including the transition to digital accounts filing, will impact charities and get ready for the changes.
Kate Sayer will join us again, following her very popular session at the 2024 Conference – challenging us to think differently about risk and sharing tools that we can use to enhance our chances of success. We will also hear from the Charity Commission’s Chief Executive, David Holdsworth, about his first months in office and his assessment of where the key opportunities and challenges lie for charities in the year ahead.
A thought-provoking keynote from Dr Danny Sriskandarajah will inspire you to imagine how the charity sector needs to change to meet the challenges of a more just and sustainable future, and you will hear from our own CEO, Alan Vallance, and other experts about the skills and qualities that will be in high demand as charities adapt their finance functions to the changing environment of digital progress and sustainability measures.
The Conference also includes sessions about the tricky topic of overheads and other indirect costs. How can charities help their funders to assess efficiency and impact without relying on flawed metrics? We will discuss this, the need for fairer funding, and explore how charities can find the right balance between direct and indirect costs.
We will also discuss charity banking; we’ll hear from CAF Bank’s CEO Alison Taylor about critical discussions between UK banking executives, charity regulators and sector leaders to address the banking challenges that many charities experience and discuss with Bates Wells’ Luke Fletcher and others how charities can enhance their banking and investment decisions.
We hope you can join us live on 23 and 24 January 2025 for the virtual Charity Conference. If that’s a busy time for you, you can register now to benefit from the early bird rate and then watch the session recordings in your own time.
