Fundraising Convention 2026 will be at the QEII Centre and online, on 4-5 June 2026, and the CIoF is already calling for papers. You have until 12th October to submit your ideas for a convention paper, and you can do that using the link https://ciof.org.uk/fundraising-convention/speak-at-convention. Good luck!
Author: Nick Swain
CIoF issues new face-to-face fundraising guidance
The Chartered Institute of Fundraising has updated its guidance on face-to-face fundraising, focussing particularly on charity-agency partnerships and payment models. This follows the Fundraising Regulator market inquiry findings, where they urged charities to review their subcontracted face-to-face fundraising relationships. You can read the inquiry findings at https://www.fundraisingregulator.org.uk/news/fundraising-regulator-market-inquiry-findings-urge-charities-review-their and the updated CIoF guidance at https://ciof.org.uk/IoF/media/IOF/Resources/Face-to-Face-Fundraising-Guidance-2025.pdf (which […]
Do you record and transcribe meetings?
More organisations are using AI notetakers, or facilities within apps such as Teams or Zoom, or record meetings and provide transcriptions. However, this can raise serious privacy issues, as well as issues of accuracy and context, so what should your approach be? We can help you create a simple AI notetaker and recording policy, so […]
Charity fined for not retaining personal data
A policy for retaining personal data for no longer than needed, when you do not have a valid purpose for processing, can often be a challenge to implement. But recently the ICO issued a charity £18,000 for shredding ‘irreplaceable’ records relating to adoptions in Scotland, to make space in filing cabinets. BBC Tech has a […]
Welcome to insights for Autumn 2025
We hope that you had a good summer break, and are feeling refreshed. Our weekly insights have restarted and alongside this, we will be launching some 10-minute videos on popular topics. Our free webinars will be returning too, with the option of viewing them on demand more easily. So we plan a busy few months, […]