Good Finance offers social investment resource for charities and social enterprises
Good Finance is a new sector wide website and collaborative project offering resources to help charities and social enterprises make the most of the opportunities of social investment. This resource has been launched following a year of research and design with the sector, and you can find out more here. Read more
Get free stuff from In Kind Direct
Need office stationery, goods for fundraising prizes or a good deal on a printer? In Kind Direct redistributes goods from companies to charities, social enterprises, and not for profit organisations. Please click here to find out more. Read more
Fundraising and data protection: a survival guide for the uninitiated
A free guide called Fundraising and data protection: a survival guide for the uninitiated has been published by consultant Tim Turner, a former policy officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office. The aim of this guide is to help charities understand the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and comply with data protection law. Please click here … Read more
Charity Commission launches new accounts templates for small charitable companies
The Charity Commission has launched a new set of templates to help small charities prepare their accounts. The accounts templates, which were developed in partnership with Companies House, are aimed at trustees of charitable companies with incomes of less than £500,000 a year. More details are available here. Read more
Measures to help small charities get into the public services supply chain
Earlier this week, Government Minister for Civil Society, Rob Wilson announced three new measures as part of a programme to help tackle the challenge of getting small charities into the public sector supply chain. They are: Developing a placed based Public Service Incubator that helps small charities get commissioned. Exploring the development of a commissioning … Read more
Free handbook on fundraising for charity Trustees
Trustees and Fundraising: A practical handbook has been published by the Institute of Fundraising in partnership with NCVO, Charity Finance Group, and ACEVO. This free downloadable resource aims to help trustees ensure they are fully aware of their legal duties and wider responsibilities around fundraising. It sets out the key questions that Trustees should be … Read more
Local Authorities urged to make personal budgets dementia friendly
Fewer than a third of people receiving social care support for problems with memory and cognition have a personal budget, despite the government’s aspirations for a person-centred care and support system. Alzheimer’s Society have aimed to help address this by producing a personal budgets guide of easy and cost effective actions that councils can take … Read more
12 tips on running a social enterprise
SSE’s social entrepreneur of the year, Sophie Unwin, has put together 12 tips on running a social enterprise. Sophie has shared lots of really good and practical information, which you can read here. Read more
Get involved in A Better Way to improve services and build community
A Better Way is a network of social activists from the voluntary network and beyond who want to improve services and build strong communities, believing that society will be better served by liberating the untapped potential of people and places, rather than treating them as passive recipients of services, as problems to be solved, or … Read more
CQC State of Care report warns that adult social care is reaching a tipping point
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has recently released this year’s State of Care report. There is some good news in this report in that nearly three quarters of services were rated as good or outstanding, (71% and 1% respectively), and only 2% were rated as inadequate. However the report also voices some real concerns about adult … Read more