The Charity Commission is consulting about revising the guidance on adopting a responsible (or ‘ethical’) approach to investing charity funds, and you can help to shape any changes. If you are actively involved in investing charity funds, then do make your views known by taking part in the consultation. There is not too much time, […]
Author: zorvaconsulting
Remove admin rights and be 4 times safer
The 2020 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report compiles every Microsoft security bulletin for the previous 12 months and analyses the trends. Thanks to the Register you can see the full report here, but a key headline is that 77% of all the Critical vulnerabilities could have been mitigated by removing admin rights. Larger organisations would tend to […]
Donations to fall in the next year?
The COVID-19 Support Fund was set up by the UK insurance and long-term savings industry, and since May 2020 it has raised over £100 million to support some of the people hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis. They recently conducted a survey of charities and the public and came to the conclusions that: Four in […]
How many passwords do you have?
Martin Lewis’s moneysavingexpert website recently ran a poll asking users this question, and just under half used the same password for every account. However, better news was that amongst those with more than 100 accounts, 52% said they used a password manager (and presumably generated a random password for each account). Password managers are so […]
Companies House newsletter
You may receive the newsletter from Companies House, but if not it’s worth a read. Apart from offering some free webinar on ‘Become a better director‘ there is a handy tool to check what COVID-19 financial support may be available.