(a charitable company limited by guarantee)
Registered Charity No. 1054914
Company Number 3182826
Activity areas are:
· Member and Information services, including recruitment and retention
of members, Charities Resource Network development and website;
· Training, Events and Conferences, including subscriber recruitment
and our one fundraising event, the CFDG Annual Dinner;
· Policy and Campaigning.
These activity areas relate to the five aims as follows: aim one (to influence legislation and regulation) is covered by our policy and campaigning work; aim two (raising standards) is covered by our training and events programme (and to a smaller extent by policy initiatives); aim three (collaboration) crosses all three activity areas but is co-ordinated in member services; aim four (recruitment and the regions) is the responsibility primarily of member services; aim five (sustainability) is largely related to internal systems and processes, though the focus on income generation cuts across all activity areas.
Membership is renewed annually and at 31 March 2005 we had 1,077 individual members from charities. By the end of the year this had increased to 1,190 representing a net increase in total membership of 113. This represents membership growth of just over 10% against a target of 12%. The number of corporate subscribers increased during the year from 76 to 91, our target was to reach 84.
A total of 192 new members were accepted during the year. The reason for their joining (where known) was as follows:
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