Charity governance

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CHARITY TRUSTEES AND GOVERNANCE

Good charity governance is essential for organisations to be effective, accountable and sustainable. Explore our useful resources for charity trustees and leaders.

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Whether you're just starting out as a trustee, or already have experience leading a charity, our resources can help you to secure a successful future for your organisation.

GUIDES AND TOOLS

From charity fundraising to financing the future, our tools, guides and webinars can help you to lead a resilient and effective organisation.

Young trustee guide

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Encouraging young trustees

Only 2% of charities currently have a young trustee. We created this Young Trustee Guide to try and address this trend.

Get the Young Trustee guide
Fundraising Fundamentals

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Fundraising Fundamentals

Our four-part fundraising guide will help you put the foundations in place for an effective and successful fundraising strategy.

Explore our fundraising guide
Charity investments

INVESTMENTS

Charity investments

Whether you’re new to investing or you’ve been investing for years, our resources can help you understand charity investing.

Visit the investment knowledge centre
Financing the Future

CASE STUDY

Financing the Future

Everything you need to know about repayable finance and how charities are using this form of funding to reach their goals.

Download our guide to charity finance
Building projects

CASE STUDY

Planning a building project?

A guide to the legal issues of procuring building projects, co-produced with award-winning law firm, Brachers.

Read our guide to procuring building projects

CHARITY SECTOR INSIGHT

We've curated insights from across the charitable sector to help you keep your eye on the bigger picture.

Local Food links case study

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What small charities mean to people

We surveyed the British public to explore perceptions of small charities and their impact on society.

Read the research findings
CAF Resilience programme

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Six characteristics of a resilient charity

Beth Clarke explores what makes a charity resilient and why it's so important that they are.

Read Beth's blog
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UK Giving

Discover insight into donor behaviour, key issues affecting charities and responses to significant UK events.

Visit our UK Giving hub
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Machine-made goods: charities, philanthropy and artificial intelligence

What implications will Artificial Intelligence have for civil society and the work of charities?

Read the report online
Nudging to give to charity

CASE STUDY

Nudging insights

We worked with the Cabinet Office's Behavioural Insights Team to test ways of increasing charity donations.

See the results of the test
Brexit

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Brexit and its impact on charitable causes

Following the vote to leave the EU, we look into Brexit's effect on UK giving to charities.

Read the report

NEWS AND VIEWS

Keep up-to-date with the changing world of the charitable sector with articles and blog posts from our in-house experts.

Building trust with funders

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Building trust with funders

Steph Taylor met with three smaller charities to explore what it takes to build trust between funders and the charities they support.

Read what they found
Income diversification

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Income diversification

In this blog, Steph Taylor shares the key things boards should consider if they want to progress towards a more sustainable future.

Read Steph's blog
Leaders of small charities

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Small charity leaders

Beth Clarke examines the role of a small charity leader and calls for more support to be given to them.

Read Beth's blog
CAF Giving Thought podcasts

PODCAST

The Giving Thought podcast

A bi-weekly exploration of trends in global philanthropy and civil society.

Listen to our podcasts
Governance reviews

CASE STUDY

Governance reviews

Our strategic consultancy team highlight three potential governance pitfalls that charity boards should avoid.

Read our good governance tips
Investment governance

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Investment governance

Having robust governance for your investments means that you can feel confident that you’re doing the right thing for your charity.

Articles about governance

Essential reading for trustees

Learn more about your responsibilities as a trustee with our pick of essential reading from around the sector.

From the Charity Commission

 

From the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)

 

From the Good Governance Steering Group

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