(a charitable company limited by guarantee)
Registered Charity No. 1054914
Company Number 3182826
Our Technical Accounting Group met twice during the year to discuss consultations issued by the Accounting Standards Board on heritage assets and both meetings proved highly useful in making our response.
We planned to review how we can most effectively work with and support the Office of The Third Sector. We met with a number of government departments during the year including the HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs and the Office of the Third Sector at the Cabinet Office. We also invited a representative from the Office of the Third Sector to speak at one of our regional meetings on the review of the third sector and have had ad hoc meetings as necessary. During 2007 we will be looking to further develop our relations with key government departments and officials.
We planned to consult with members on our response to the Third Sector Review. CFDG's membership was consulted extensively on this both in London and in the regions. All CFDG members were given the opportunity to contribute to the review and many took up the offer, resulting in a high quality response that truly represented the views of our members and provided some very relevant examples.
We planned to undertake campaigning around the Compact Plus and full cost recovery. In collaboration with the CIPFA Charities Panel, we undertook a survey of our members on full cost recovery in April 2006 and have since taken part in several debates on the issue with, for example, the National Audit Office and the Audit Commission. We also developed our most recent publication Know Your Cost Base Know Your Charity based on the results of the survey. CFDG will be repeating its survey shortly to see what has changed one year on.
We planned to start our work to provide a manifesto in advance of the next general election. We developed the basis of a manifesto through our response to the Third Sector Review and our Budget 2007 submission. We will be drawing the key points in these two documents together into one manifesto shortly.
We planned to develop strategy work in partnership with other bodies in the sector. CFDG has over the past year worked in partnership with some of the other infrastructure bodies on responses to government consultations. Notable examples are a joint CFDG and Charity Tax Group (CTG) response to the HM Revenue and Customs review into partial exemption, a joint Budget submission with Acevo, and a joint press release from Institute of Fundraising, CFDG and Acevo calling for a review of the giving regime. During the coming year we will be developing a tax strategy in collaboration with the other main bodies in the sector working in this area.
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