Easton Bilsborough, Charity and Voluntary Sector Executive at ICAEW, on the key messages communicated at the recent Charity Commission Annual Public Meeting (APM), held last month.
With the ICAEW Charity Annual Conference just around the corner, Gillian McKay, Head of Charities and Voluntary Sector at ICAEW, selects highlights from the event's diverse programme which she looks forward to on 12 November.
Our free afternoon Volunteering Fair is taking place on Monday and is the perfect opportunity for you to speak to a selection of handpicked charities. Find out about the different roles available which cover finance and non-finance positions.
The Annual ICAEW Charity Conference for 2014 was full of useful content, as you would expect.
How are you developing your strategies for success?
In order to remain successful, effective planning and strategy development is vital.
The Committee are currently planning the Charity and Voluntary Sector Group Events for 2015, why not help shape the programmes and feed in your suggestions on what and who you would like to see on next year's programmes?
Last week, the ICAEW Charity & Voluntary Sector Group hosted another informative Academies Update which I attended.
What will Social Investment Tax Relief mean for the sector?
A new EIS-style tax incentive offers a potential source of cheap loan funding for smaller trading charities, but a Euro 344,000 cap per charity may limit its take up in practice.
Did you know that next week (22 – 26 October) is Get Safe Online week? Cyber security is a subject that is dear to our hearts in the IT Faculty and we applaud initiatives like this that help to raise awareness of the issues more generally.
ICAEW has responded to 10 out of the 13 calls for evidence by Lord Hodgson, who is leading the Charities Act Review 2006. The review will result in a report which will be presented to Parliament before the summer recess in 2012.
Readers may be interested to read the blog I posted on Talk Accountancy in December: European parliament passes limited 'micros' exemption.
On 6 December 2011 the Government published draft clauses which it is intended will be incorporated into Finance Bill 2012.