The Charity Governance Code is a set of voluntary principles authored by sector leaders including NCVO and ACEVO. It’s helpful and practical, and could be of real benefit as a part of your management and board development plans. It could be worked through, a section at a time, during away days or at each trustee […]
Author: Nick Swain
Online training for charity leaders
Civil Society have announced the next few months of online training for charity leaders at https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/training.html. As for some, we head into a slightly quieter part of the year, could now be a good time to invest in some cost-effective training for your charity leaders and/or trustees?
Fundraising Convention is changing
The CIoF have announced that 2026 will see the last Fundraising Convention. According to their press release and following the recent Learning Review, the CIoF is reshaping how they support fundraisers to learn, grow, and connect at every stage of their careers. 2026 will be the last Fundraising Convention, but this is just one part […]
Charity CRM Survey Results 2026
Results of the annual Fundraising Magazine survey of charity CRM solutions has just been published, where just over 400 charities shared views on their CRM systems. Beacon CRM offer an opportunity to download the report for the ‘cost’ of your contact details with the link https://www.beaconcrm.org/offer/fundraising-magazines-charity-crm-survey-results-2026, which is perhaps unsurprising as they emerged as #1 […]
Instagram ends E2EE
Meta has announced the end of End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) on its Instagram platform. The BBC Tech article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clypzxl3lvqo reports that Meta’s decision has been welcomed by groups including children’s charities, but met with concern by privacy advocates. It may be that your communications and fundraising teams are using Instagram for supporter development, and so you […]