(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, including publications and media activity.
These activity areas relate to the five aims as follows: best practice is covered by publications and research in policy and campaigning and benchmarking work in membership and information; professional development is covered by our training, events and conferences programme (and to a smaller extent by policy initiatives); membership services is co-ordinated by the membership and information team; policy is covered by our activity on policy and campaigning; commercial is an embryonic area that will develop over the next few years.
On 31 March 2007 our total membership had grown to 1,289 individuals representing a net increase in membership of 5% over the figure at 31 March 2006 of 1,223 individuals.
As at 31 March 2007, the individual members represented between them a total of 1,029 different not-for-profit organisations, compared to 973 organisations as at 31 March 2006. During the year we welcomed our one thousandth charity – which was London Cycling Campaign. The profile of member organisations, in relation to income size, is as follows:
| 2006 / 07 | 2005 / 06 | |||
| Over £10m | 248 | 24% | 225 | 23% |
| £5m to £10m | 169 | 16% | 166 | 17% |
| £1m to £5m | 413 | 42% | 417 | 43% |
| Under £1m | 181 | 18% | 165 | 17% |
| Total | 1,029 | 973 | ||
CFDG had four regions available for members to join. Comparison with the regional membership profile for 2005/06 shows the overall percentage of members that belong to a region other than London has remained the same at 74% London and 26% regional, however membership growth in the regions was slightly higher than in London at 6% compared with 5%.
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