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Governance
CFDG is a registered charity, number 1054914. It is also a Company Limited by Guarantee, number 3182826. To download a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, click here.
CFDG are currently recruiting for a Trustee position. For more details, please visit the Vacancies page.
Trustees
The CFDG Constitution allows for a maximum of ten Trustees; seven of whom must be CFDG members and are elected by the members, the other three can be co-opted by the Trustees to fill skills gaps that they have been identified. Each elected Trustee serves initially for a three year period whereupon they can stand for election for a second three years, after which they must stand down for at least one year before being eligible to stand again. The Chair must be elected by the Trustees from amongst their number. The full Board normally meets five times a year, one of which is a ‘strategy day’.
Philip Brown CPFA
Phil joined the Board in September 2006. He is Head of Finance at The King's Fund. He has extensive experience in the public sector in the 1970s and 80s, this was followed by a spell with BT and then as a healthcare management consultant with Capita and CASPE. The King's Fund is a large endowed foundation which has led Phil to develop a particular interest in the charities' investment management.
Phil is a member of the CIPFA Charities Panel and represents The King's Fund on the European Foundation Financial Investment Officers group.
Roger Chester ACCA
Roger joined the Board of CFDG in 2005. He has been in the sector for 25 years. In that time he has worked for The University of Warwick Students' Union, Hestia Housing Association and Birmingham Mind, before becoming Head of Finance and Administration for Lionheart (The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Benevolent Fund).
He has been active in promoting the development of the CFDG West Midlands Group and now Chairs the West Midlands Steering Committee as well as being on the IT Steering Group and chairing the Marketing Committee..
Melvin Coleman CA (Deputy Chair)
Melvin is UK Finance Director of Amnesty International and joined the CFDG Board in 2003. He has over 35 years of experience of the Sector, originally a founder member of the first publicly funded law centre in the UK and latterly in senior roles at Consumers Association, Engineering Construction Industry Training Board and the Performing Right Society. His work on the CFDG Board has been focused on working with the Chair and CEO on governance issues.
He currently also serves as Treasurer of Brent Community Law Centre, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and as a committee member of the Charity Tax Group.
Rohan Hewavisenti ACA
Rohan joined the Board in September 2006. He is Director of Finance and Business Development at the British Red Cross Society. He has been in the not-for-profit sector for over 13 years. He was Director of Finance and Resources at Breast Cancer Care for five years. He also worked with VSO in China followed by spells at Sayer Vincent, ActionAid and the Strategic Rail Authority.
He is on the Management Committee of the Charity Tax Group and Treasurer of the charity, Learning for Life. He recently joined the Board of East Living, a care and support provider for people with special needs.
Charles Nall ACA (Chair)
Charles joined the Board in 2006. He is Corporate Services director at The Children's Society, having joined as Finance and Administration Director. Prior to that he took an MBA at Cranfield and was Assistant Director at The Wolfson Foundation. More recently with NSPCC, he set up CharITyshare. He is Chairman of the Charities’ Consortium.
Charles has served on the Policy Development Working Group, drafting the sector’s response to the PPF Levy and to the EU’s proposals for the sector on money laundering and terrorism.
Gill Nunn
Gill joined the Board in 2008. She has been at CAF since February 2006 as Director of Charity Business Development. She was responsible for sales, marketing and product development for CAF Bank, Investment Services and Fundraising Support until recently. She works closely with other business areas to ensure that services are delivered efficiently to the charitable sector. Gill now works on the product development and innovation side of marketing with a focus on private clients.
Having held a number of executive positions with HBOS plc over an 18 year career, Gill has a strong track record in achieving sales growth and service improvements and has led major organisational change in different parts of the business including the Retail Bank, Call Centres and Estate Agency. Gill is a Trustee for Centrepoint and a member of the Charity Tax Group as well as being a keen marathon runner to raise funds for various charities.
Tom Sterry MBE AFA (Treasurer)
Tom joined the Board of CFDG in 2003. He is currently Head of Finance for The Henry Smith Charity (a grant making charity based in the City that was established in 1628). He has been in the sector 13 years and previously worked as an accountant in industry (Ford cars) and commerce (Access credit card).
He has particular expertise in investment and property. He is secretary to the Charity Investors Group and has also sat on a SORP review committee relating to investments. He has been on the CFDG Finance Committee since 2003 and has Chaired it (and been Treasurer) since 2005.
Fiona Young ACA
Fiona joined the Board in September 2006. She has been Head of Resources at The Tudor Trust since early this year. Before that she was the Director of Finance & Resources with Crisis and was a Senior Charity Manager at BDO Stoy Hayward. She has co-authored the books 'Preparing Charity Accounts' and NCVO's 'Good Financial Management Guide'.
She has been actively involved with CFDG for a number of years. She is the current chair of the Technical Accounting Group, has served on the Finance Committee and contributed to a number of projects over the years. She is also the co-ordinator of the Technical Accounting module for the Charity Finance Module at Cass Business School.
CFDG also has two Advisors who have Observer status on the Board.
Pesh Framjee (Special Advisor)
Head of Unit serving Non Profits at Deloitte, Pesh has been involved in the charity sector, both professionally and as a volunteer, for over 25 years. He writes and lectures internationally on matters affecting the sector. Pesh is Co-author of Charities - The Law and Practice and has also written a book on Charity Trading. Many of the guidance notes prepared for CFDG have been written by him.
Pesh is member of the Charity SORP Committee and of the Accounting
Standards Board's Committee for Accounting for Public Benefit
Entities. He is also member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
Charity Group and of the Charity Law Association. Pesh has been
a Finance Director of two charities and has been closely involved
with CFDG since its inception in 1987. He runs the CFDG accounting
helpline and members can call him to discuss issues relating
to charity finance, accounting, reporting. tax, governance.
risk management, performance measurement and related areas.
John Tate (IT Advisor)
John is a qualified accountant, working for many years in the retail industry before setting up his own firm - Tate Bramald - specialising in providing accounting solutions to SMEs and the voluntary sector. He sold the company in 2002 and now works as a consultant, mostly in the commercial sector.
He was made IT advisor to the CFDG in 2002, in recognition of his position as a leading expert on IT use in the charity sector. He is Chair of CITRA, a visiting lecturer at CASS Business School for Charity Effectiveness and a regular contributor to the IT and charity press. He is also a trustee of two charities.
Committees
Committee members are volunteers drawn from the Board, and from CFDG members and Subscribers. When we need people to join a committee we either issue a general invitation or target those who we believe may have a particular interest in the issue.
Finance Committee Marketing Committee Remuneration Committee
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IT Committee Education Committee Nominations Committee |