Professional development is skills and knowledge gained for personal development and career advancement. There are a range of approaches including consultation, coaching, training, study, mentoring and reflective supervision.
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.
Action for Kids sacked a fundraiser who completed the London Marathon in a giant snail suit because he failed to hit his targets.
Unite the Union is to launch a campaign to engage with workers in charities which have been “forced to the wall” by government cuts.
Joyce Moseley will retire from Catch22 at the end of this year, after more than a decade in the role of chief executive.
Locality is planning to set up an Institute for Community Organising as part of the £15m community organisers programme it is running on behalf of the government.
The future role of the charity finance director
Charity finance directors need to be strategists with both feet on the ground, says Sam Younger.
Networking tips for finance directors
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The worlds of finance and networking share many of the same qualities, says Heather White. Really.
Anglia Ruskin University is launching a new course to assist managers of civil society organisations to build the Big Society.
Powerful presentations
Finance leaders often find it difficult to deliver great presentations. Richard Harrison unlocks the mysteries.
Andrew Hind, former Charity Commission chief executive and current guest editor of Charity Finance, has taken up a part-time post at Cass Business School as a Visiting Professor of Charity Governance and Finance.
Model job description - charity honorary treasurer
This model job description lists a comprehensive list of duties you may choose to select from to bestow upon your honorary treasurer.
Model job description - charity finance director
This model job description provides guidance for the specific responsibilities relating to the role of charity finance director.
Reaping the best from the latest crop of IT developments takes time, says John Tate.
An “exceptional voluntary sector manager” is being sought to become a full-time PhD student researching performance measurement in the sector at the Cranfield School of Management later this year.
Technical briefing: Employees' 'time to train'
From 6 April 2010, employees with more than 26 weeks’ service will have the right to request time to undertake study or training (also known as ‘time to train’).
Seventy per cent of charity leaders expect their staffing levels to stay static or decline over the coming year, new research suggests.
Keeping the faith
How the Lucy Faithfull Foundation works to reduce the risks to children from sex offenders
Sales of comic strip Peanuts, featuring the dog Snoopy and the 1940 classic Lassie Come Home, look set to rocket with a RSPCA shelter in Radcliffe-on-Trent seeking volunteers to read to dogs.
A charity has topped a poll of the top small companies for employees for the second year in a row.
The number of volunteer financial education officers at Citizens Advice bureaux is to increase nearly 13-fold, thanks to a £3m partnership with a building society.
The government has launched a third sector skills body which will address skills gaps in the voluntary sector and create new learning opportunities in these areas.
There are fewer chief executives that could be good finance directors than finance directors that could be good CEOs, Charity Commission chief Andrew Hind told an audience of senior finance professionals last week.
Innovation is needed to attract graduates to the social care sector in order to avoid disastrous staff shortages, the human resources director at a large residential and home care charity has warned.
The skills gaps which have the greatest impact upon third sector organisations are at management level, according to new research from the Workforce Hub and NCVO.
Birmingham University has won the contract to lead the new £10.25m Third Sector Research Centre. Birmingham (pictured) will work in partnership with the University of Southampton to deliver the Centre, which aims to strengthen the use of evidence to underpin policy by researching and analysing charities’ effectiveness and impact, strengthening the evidence base on the sector, and enabling better awareness and understanding of its size and dynamics.
A senior manager at learning disability charity Enable Scotland has been suspended over a sick joke about missing child Madeleine McCann. Lynn McBain faces disciplinary action after reportedly referring in a staff newsletter to “McCann oven chips” disappearing from her oven after she left them there for 20 minutes.
A number of stories over the last month or so have provoked some interesting feedback on the Charity Finance website.
A university of the third sector should be created to harness the talents of graduates considering the sector as a serious career option, according to acevo.
Oxbridge colleges are still lagging behind their US counterparts, according to a recent study by London Business School.
Campden Charities: a new way of giving
Individually tailored support for its beneficiaries and a good deal of introspection makes this seventeenth-century fund a modern model
