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  • New year, new you: Make volunteering your resolution for 2025

    • 9 Jan 2025
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector

    Whether it’s learning new skills or expanding your network, volunteering helps you achieve your goals while making a difference.

  • Financial leadership in small charities

    • 4 Dec 2024
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector

    The Association of Chairs offers a free guide to help chairs of small charities facilitate good financial leadership with their trustee boards.

  • What will you learn from the Conference?

    • 13 Nov 2024
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector

    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.

  • The impact of being a trustee

    • 28 Aug 2024
    • Harriet Raine, Not-for-Profit Technical Manager at Grant Thornton and Trustee and Treasurer of Independent Domestic Abuse Services (IDAS)

    As a finance professional working predominantly in the Not-for-Profit sector, a key part of my role is to understand the various frameworks, regulations and accounting rules specific to charities. Charity professionals need to have a breadth of knowledge that might be difficult to achieve on top of all of the other day-to-day tasks of operating a charity.

  • Volunteering as a school governor – find out more from our podcast

    • 1 Aug 2024
    • Charlie Western, Senior Partnerships Team Manager, Governors for Schools

    Have you considered taking your finance skills back to school and volunteering as a school governor?

  • Will your charity be left behind in the AI revolution?

    • 12 Jul 2024
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector

    The 2024 Charity Digital Skills Report shows that tech use has evolved over the last 12 months but the impact of the cost-of-living crisis, a lack of capacity, headspace and financial pressures are holding charities back from taking advantage of emerging technologies.

  • Charity Digital Skills Report survey

    • 26 Mar 2024
    • Zoe Amar FCIM, Founder and Director, Zoe Amar Digital

    Does your organisation need support and funding for digital? Is your charity’s use of digital changing? Are you thinking about AI or worried about digital's impact on climate change? Share your views in The Charity Digital Skills Report survey. Your insights will help us map digital trends across the sector and identify where organisations like yours need support.

  • Recruiting charity trustees – top tips for crafting a successful recruitment ad

    • 5 Mar 2024
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector

    Recruiting trustees is a crucial task for charities, as board members play a pivotal role in guiding the organisation, shaping its strategy and ensuring its mission is fulfilled effectively. However, many charities are hampered by board vacancies, so it’s never been more important to make your advertised role stand out from the crowd.

  • Join us at the Big Trustee Breakfast

    • 26 Jan 2024
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector

    Want to meet fellow charity trustees over breakfast and update your knowledge, all free of charge? Then join our London-based event for charity trustees!

  • CPD for charity trustees made easy

    • 3 Jan 2024
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector, ICAEW

    You may have a few new year’s resolutions already, and I’d encourage you to get the year off to a good start by incorporating CPD in your goals. Find out how the new CPD regulations affect you and create a plan to help you spread your required CPD hours across the CPD year (which ends 31 October 2024).

  • Celebrate Trusteeship. Share Your Story. Enter the Charity Governance Awards

    • 24 Nov 2023
    • Renée LaDue, Membership and Communications Manager, The Clothworkers’ Company

    Charity Governance Awards are now accepting entries.

  • Can you help shape the charity sector?

    • 13 Nov 2023
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector, ICAEW

    Join our Conference to help create a sector that’s fit for the future.

  • Could you be a charity treasurer?

    • 21 Sep 2023
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector, ICAEW

    Marking the publication of the sixth edition of The Charity Treasurer’s Handbook in mid-September, I spoke to its author, ICAEW member Elaine Alsop, about why treasurers are so important to charities.

  • Could you go Back to School as a volunteer governor this year?

    • 1 Sep 2023
    • Suzy Broadhead, Head of Inspiring Governance Programme, Education and Employers

    Have you ever considered volunteering as a governor? Would you like to hear from a current school governor to hear what it’s really like?

  • Impact of voluntary charity work on your new CPD requirements

    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector, ICAEW

    Voluntary work can come with significant responsibilities. Charity trustees, for example, are responsible for deciding how a charity is run and may be known by other titles, such as governors, directors or board members.

  • Dispelling common myths about charities

    • 29 Jun 2023
    • Kristina Kopic, Head of Charity and Voluntary Sector, ICAEW

    Charities play a vital role in society, providing a diverse range of services. People’s goodwill and generosity remain the lifeblood of the sector, but this is at risk if the public misunderstand what charities do and how they operate.

  • Volunteers’ Week 2023

    • 31 May 2023
    • ICAEW

    Volunteers' Week is a time to celebrate and inspire, and we’re excited to celebrate and thank our global network of volunteers.

  • Could you help schools this Volunteers’ Week?

    • 24 May 2023
    • Suzy Broadhead, Head of Inspiring Governance Programme, Education and Employers

    1-7 June 2023 is Volunteers’ Week, a time to celebrate the invaluable contribution that volunteers make. This coincides with the point of the year that many professionals across the country are considering their professional development plans: could volunteering as a school governor offer the development opportunity you are looking for this year?

  • 5 leadership roles for Chairs on finance

    • 24 Apr 2023
    • Rosalind Oakley, Chief Executive, Association of Chairs

    The finance team are of course essential on charity finance, whether they are a Treasurer, a Chair of finance committee, a Finance Director or other member of the finance staff and they do much of the heavy lifting. But Chairs need to play their role too – starting with these five key areas of financial leadership.

  • Calling all finance professionals: Harness your skills to help schools improve!

    • 23 Mar 2023
    • Hannah Stolton, CEO, Governors for Schools

    Are you interested in using your experience in the finance industry to help younger generations thrive? School governance could be your next rewarding adventure.