(a charitable company limited by guarantee)
Registered Charity No. 1054914
Company Number 3182826
During 2006/7 the Chief Executive is undertaking a review of the Charity’s operational plans to ensure that CFDG will continue to work towards its Vision.
Results from the regional membership survey will be incorporated into the review of CFDG strategy. Discussions will be held with regional subscribers to identify opportunities to secure further support for the expansion of regional CFDG activities. The opportunity to work collaboratively with other voluntary sector umbrella bodies in the regions will be explored and where appropriate pilot schemes will be developed.
During 2006/7 we will continue with the implementation of the recruitment plan. We aim to increase our membership income by 8%.
We will launch the re-designed website and review the use of the CRN through an online survey. We will undertake a “Finance Count 2006” benchmarking survey and run a further series of related workshops
Our main objective for the year will be to maintain our current programme of events, whilst striving to improve on quality wherever possible. We will enable the most popular ones to grow by finding new venues for the Annual Conference and the Annual Fundraising Dinner. At the same time, as part of the new CEO’s review of the business plan we will look at a range of other events and training courses that we will start to roll out by the end of the year.
We also plan to increase attendance at CFDG events and training courses by 10%, and to achieve 25% online booking and payment for events by 2007.
The Budget 2006 raised some major opportunities for the voluntary sector. Firstly HM Treasury announced the creation of an office of Charity and Third Sector Finance which will act as a policy and strategy network in HM Treasury, bringing together all aspects of tax, spending and financial services policy relating to the third sector. CFDG will review, in conjunction with HM Treasury how it can most effectively work with and support the office of Charity and Third Sector Finance. A review on the future role of the third sector in social and economic regeneration was launched on 15th May 2006. CFDG will be consulting members during the first half of 2006 through the Policy Development Working Group and Members Meetings, and will collaborate with the Charities Consortium to provide input to the review.
The Compact Commissioner is due to take up post in the summer and CFDG will undertake campaigning around the compact plus and full cost recovery to coincide with this. CFDG will also commence its work to provide a manifesto in advance of the next general election during the coming year.
The Policy strategy identified key areas for CFDG to concentrate on. We will
start to develop this work in 2006/7 which we will undertake working in partnership
with other bodies in the sector. These areas include full cost recovery, outcome
reporting, funding and the role of the FD.
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