Leadership and strategy

It is a charity’s leaders, both executive and voluntary, that decide and deliver the direction of work for the organisation.  The trustee board is tasked with setting the strategy, and the executive team is tasked with delivering it.  Strong, effective leadership is crucial to the success of any civil society organisation.

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Christian Aid dumps head of fundraising role
News

Christian Aid dumps head of fundraising role 1

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 8 Feb 2012
Tags: Human resources | Leadership and strategy

Christian Aid has “disestablished” its head of fundraising role as part of a new approach to fundraising which emphasises integration with church groups and campaigning.

Time management: execute with excellence
Blogs

Time management: execute with excellence

Finance | John Tate | 2 Feb 2012
Tags: Human resources | IT strategy and management | Leadership and strategy | Communications

Allocating time appropriately between strategy and operations is, says John Tate, the key to business success.

Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and
News

Bill Gates pledges $750m as Global Fund announces new leadership

Governance | Niki May Young | 26 Jan 2012
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Funding | Statutory funding | Ethics | Law

Bill Gates has pledged a $750m vote of confidence in the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria after it was announced its executive director would step down following the exposure of a "grave abuse of funds" in several countries the fund works in.

Rowena Lewis, fellow, Clore Social Leadership Programme
News

Voluntary sector is 'failing its women' 7

Governance | Tania Mason | 26 Jan 2012
Tags: Human resources | Leadership and strategy

Seven in ten voluntary sector employees are female, yet just over four in ten charities are led by female CEOs or chairs. And in charities with turnover of £10m or more, women are in the top jobs at just 27 per cent of them.

Tom Flood to step down as BTCV chief
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Tom Flood to step down as BTCV chief

Governance | Niki May Young | 5 Jan 2012
Tags: Human resources | Leadership and strategy

Tom Flood, chief executive of the Charity Award-winning environmental charity BTCV Group, is to step down in July after a quarter-century working for the organisation.

The Strictly Come Dancing approach to charity strategy
Blogs

The Strictly Come Dancing approach to charity strategy

Governance | Tesse Akpeki | 4 Jan 2012
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Impact reporting

Strictly Come Dancing set smashing standards last year, and delivered results. Tesse Akpeki muses that the Strictly approach could be adopted by charities.

Andrew Ketteringham, director of external affairs, Alzheimer's Society
Blogs

Three sectors, four messages: My brilliant career

Finance | Andrew Ketteringham | 5 Dec 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

Looking back on a long career, Andrew Ketteringham says clarity of purpose is the secret of success.

Finance strategy for our times
Expert advice

Finance strategy for our times

Finance | 1 Nov 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

It’s the time of year to write the finance strategy. Alistair Gibbons thinks through his approach.

Ian Theodoreson - A passion for leadership
Interviews

Ian Theodoreson - A passion for leadership

Finance | Andrew Hind | 26 Oct 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

CFDG's new chair tells Andrew Hind that it's time for the group to become more passionate about securing change.

Chris Melvin, interim chief executive of Shaw Trust
News

Shaw Trust appoints new interim chief executive

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 10 Oct 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Statutory funding | International

The Shaw Trust has appointed former chief executive of Reed in Partnership, Chris Melvin, as its acting interim chief executive.

Will the female charity leaders PLEASE stand up?
Blogs

Will the female charity leaders PLEASE stand up? 6

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 19 Sep 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Professional development

If female leaders are too modest to identify themselves how will we ever get more women into top jobs? Celina Ribeiro says top women in charities need to stand up, literally.

Ian Theodoreson, CFDG chair
News

Theodoreson elected as new CFDG chair

Governance | Andrew Hind | 7 Sep 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Chairs | Recruitment | Human resources

CFDG trustees yesterday voted in Ian Theodoreson as the group’s new chair, succeeding Charles Nall who had served in the role for the last four years.

Jonathan Diggines, chair of cdfa
News

cdfa appoints new chair

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 6 Sep 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Trustee boards | Human resources | Chairs

The Community Development Finance Association has appointed Jonathan Diggines, chief executive of SME venture capitalists EV Group, as its chair.

Marg Mayne, CEO of VSO
Interviews

VSO's new strategy: People First

Finance | Tania Mason | 6 Sep 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Costs | Impact reporting

VSO is cutting admin costs by a third, swallowing a 12 per cent drop in its core DfID grant over the next three years, yet still aiming for expansion. Tania Mason explains how.


VSO in Cambodia
News

VSO to slash overheads by a third 1

Finance | Tania Mason | 1 Sep 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | IT strategy and management | Sustainability | Statutory funding | Funding | Costs

VSO is preparing to reduce its administrative costs by 30 per cent as it seeks ways to mitigate the effects of a drop in funding from the Department for International Development of 12 per cent over the next three years.



Average salary of top-100 charity boss exceeds £166k
News

Average salary of top-100 charity boss exceeds £166k

Governance | Tania Mason | 31 Aug 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Recruitment | Human resources

The average salary of the chief executives of the UK’s top-100 charities is £166,048, exclusive new research by civilsociety.co.uk has shown.



Chief Executives Survey: Going public
Surveys

Chief Executives Survey: Going public

Finance | Vibeka Mair | 30 Aug 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Human resources | Big Society

More top 100 charity CEOs now come from the public sector than ever before, reports Vibeka Mair.

Rosie Chapman, former director of policy, Charity Commission
Expert advice

Getting out of the bath: future trends in strategic planning

Finance | Rosie Chapman | 26 Aug 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

Rosie Chapman offers a guide to some future trends for strategic planning to 2015.

Rohan Hewavisenti, director of finance and business development at the British Red Cross
Expert advice

Stewardship is not enough

Finance | 26 Aug 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

The FD should be a business partner, not the head of publishing, says Rohan Hewavisenti.

Young, at heart: Sir Nicholas Young on charity leadership
Expert advice

Young, at heart: Sir Nicholas Young on charity leadership

Finance | Sir Nicholas Young | 26 Aug 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

Passion, optimism, trust, focus. Sir Nicholas Young outlines his key components for a successful charity leader.

CIC appoints chief executive from the NHS
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CIC appoints chief executive from the NHS

Finance | Gareth Jones | 18 Aug 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

Community Integrated Care, one of the UK’s largest social and healthcare charities, has appointed Neil Matthewman as its new chief executive.

Jonathan Jenkins is on secondment working for the Big Society Bank project
News

Social Investment Business appoints Big Society Bank secondee as CEO

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 4 Aug 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Human resources | Big Society Capital

Jonathan Jenkins, who is currently working on the Big Society Bank project, has been appointed by the Social Investment Business as its new CEO.

Poetry Society issues full and frank explanation of dispute
News

Poetry Society issues full and frank explanation of dispute 3

Governance | Niki May Young | 28 Jul 2011
Tags: Accountability and transparency | Leadership and strategy

The Poetry Society has published the full details of the internal dispute which has prompted the Arts Council to threaten to withhold its funding until the Society gets its house back in order.

Poetry Society funding under threat after entire board steps down
News

Poetry Society funding under threat after entire board steps down

Governance | Niki May Young | 27 Jul 2011
Tags: Trustee boards | Finance for trustees | Trustee liability | Leadership and strategy

The Poetry Society must "get its house in order" or lose its Arts Council funding, the grantmaker has warned following a governance dispute which has seen the entire board step down.

Lucy de Groot, chief executive, CSV
News

CSV embarks on strategic review

Governance | Tania Mason | 21 Jul 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Volunteering

Volunteering charity CSV is undertaking a wholesale strategic review which involves asking key stakeholders how they think the charity should respond to the “challenging context” it operates in.


Making the most of summer
Expert advice

Making the most of summer

Finance | 4 Jul 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Human resources | Social networking

Catch up now on essential tasks you never usually have time for, advises Alistair Gibbons.

Back off the ropes - transforming the Samaritans
Expert advice

Back off the ropes - transforming the Samaritans

Finance | 4 Jul 2011
Tags: Volunteering | Collaborations | Leadership and strategy

A quiet revolution is taking place at Samaritans. Tony Farnfield, in the finance corner, explains.

The challenge of change
Expert advice

The challenge of change

Finance | Karen Thompson | 4 Jul 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

Last summer a highly-geared national charity folded. Gavin Williams explores why it happened and advises how others can avoid the same fate.

Paul Woodward, chief executive, Sue Ryder
News

Sue Ryder to sell English homecare business to private provider 2

Finance | Tania Mason | 28 Jun 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy | Public service delivery

Sue Ryder is to sell off its English homecare business to Allied Healthcare, the Nasdaq-listed health and social care provider, in a move that will see the charity totally exit the social homecare market in England after nearly 20 years.

Susan Daniels, chief executive, National Deaf Children's Society
Strategy

Creating a six-year strategy in times of uncertainty

Governance | 24 Jun 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy

National Deaf Children’s Society chief executive Susan Daniels explains how the charity went about developing a strategy "for our times, but not limited by them".

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