About the CFDG
Many Organisations - One Sector
CFDG members represent the variety of charities that make up the whole breadth of the sector. Fundraising charities, voluntary organisations, service providers, trusts, foundations, benevolent organisations and many more - the same regulatory environment applies to all, whereas they differ significantly in their activities, size, income, management and values.
Our members use CFDG and its sector-wide coverage to exchange knowledge, learn from similar organisations and, together, to develop charity finance and related management further to create an ever more effective and efficiently managed and diverse sector.
Finance and Beyond
Although our members tend to be senior decision-makers in their organisation, actual job titles vary. CFDG members can be Finance Directors, Chief Executives, Treasurers, Senior Finance Controllers, Auditors or anyone else with senior responsibility for the financial management of a charitable organisation.
The areas of responsibility of our members can be as varied as their job titles. Many CFDG members also have responsibility for Resources, IT, HR and/or Facilities in addition to Finance.
Consequently CFDG's information services and events do not only cover key finance and governance issues. Some examples are:
• The Annual IT Conference brings together Finance and IT experts and aims to raise the strategic organisation-wide understanding of the use of IT.
• The Annual Risk Management Conference aims to encourage good practice and a proactive attitude towards holistic risk management.
• Useful documents for HR management can be found on the CRN document library.
• A recent property survey concentrated on issues of facility management.
The annual programme of free CFDG members' meetings, training courses and conferences covers the full breadth of issues that members deal with in their organisations. www.cfdg.org.uk/events
Some examples of recurring themes are:
• Charity Accounting incl tax, VAT, regulation
• Reporting & Measurement incl management accounts, budgeting, financial planning
• Governance & Law
• Management & Strategic Skills
• Financial Literacy for non-financial staff
• Personal Skills incl negotiation skills, communication skills, self-presentation
• HR incl regulatory updates, employment law as well as soft management skills
• IT incl project management, supplier management, IT strategy planning
• Risk Management incl internal audit, insurance buying, risk registers
• Investment & Banking
Regional
While the majority of CFDG members are still based in London, almost 25% are members of one of the regional groups - with the Northernand Southwest & Wales Groups established since 2001, and the West Midlands established since 2004.
Visit our regions page for more details on the regional groups