Charity fundraising: a guide to trustee duties (CC20) has just been updated, and you can view it at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/charities-and-fundraising-cc20. The most recent changes are to make it more accessible and easier to use, but why not take this opportunity of arranging a joint trustees and fundraisers session to review it and share some learnings?
Author: Nick Swain
Be careful when responding to a subject access request
The ICO recently reprimanded a GP surgery for releasing too much information and to the wrong person, when asked by a patient to share certain data with an insurer after checking it with them. You can read their blog at https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2026/02/gp-surgery-reprimanded-after-excessive-medical-history-of-terminally-ill-patient-sent-to-insurer/ but how do you score on the lessons learnt of:
Are you ready for a right to erasure request?
Requests from data subjects who wish to exercise their right to erasure can be quite infrequent, and that makes it more important that you have a clear and well-rehearsed policy and procedure in place when they do. Often this may form one part of your overall data subject rights policy and procedure. In some cases […]
Reminder of free 25-minute insight calls
We just wanted to remind you that you can take advantage of a free 25-minute insight call to talk through any question related to data protection, tech, fundraising or governance (including Theory of Change). You can book a slot with the link https://calendly.com/zorva/25-minute-chat-with-nick.
Warning over large donation handling
The Charity Commission has launched an inquiry into how a charity handled a large donation, You can find details of their website but it prompted us to ask whether you have a policy for the acceptance (or refusal) of donations. You owe it to your fundraisers to have this clearly written down, and CIoF members […]