Cash-handling Institute Code covers tills and direct debits
The Institute of Fundraising has launched a new code on handling cash and other kinds of donations, which deals with new mechanisms such as giving at the till.
Cash is the primary indicator of business health. An organisation can survive briefly without sales or profits, without cash it will fold. Therefore the inflow and outflow of cash needs careful monitoring and management.
Effective cashflow management protects the financial security of your business.
Good cash management means:
• Knowing when, where, and how your cash needs will occur,
• Knowing what the best sources are for meeting additional cash needs; and,
• Being prepared to meet these needs when they occur, by keeping good relationships with bankers and other creditors.
The Institute of Fundraising has launched a new code on handling cash and other kinds of donations, which deals with new mechanisms such as giving at the till.
The end of the road for the cheque?
Sandra Quinn explains why the cheque may be removed from our payments vernacular in 2018 and what the Payments Council is doing to ensure that no organisation, least of all charities, is adversely affected by its removal.
Chester Mojay-Sinclare set up charity comparison site Alive and Giving last year. After Oxfam partnered with PayPal last week to offer "100 per cent" of donations to the cause, he wonders if the action is sending the right message for the sector.
The Payments Council has decided not to push ahead with the abolition of cheques unless charities and other organisations are prepared for it.
The Payments Council is to hold a series of meetings with the voluntary sector on the future of cheques and alternative methods of payments.
The Third Sector Research Centre and the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy have released a new report which suggests that the biggest charities are not becoming increasingly dominant in the voluntary sector.
Whether we like it or not, our world is about to get a whole lot smaller. That’s the view of economist and author Jeff Rubin who recently released the fascinating but frightening book entitled 'Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller'. I’d suggest all fundraisers read it, for it has connotations for all of us. Now granted, this is one man’s opinion.
Our European neighbours appear to be doing well with cash giving. Tony Elischer asks if we should be seeing it in a new light and give donors more options during the recession No one needs to tell you that the pressure is now on. And it’s clear that everyone has heard the message about taking more time to track things, more regularly, using as much analysis as possible to understand what is really happening. The challenge is: what do you do with the answers? And, more importantly, do you have the knowledge, the skills, the ideas and the resources to make the appropriate response?
Happy new year! Did you have a good Christmas? Eat lots of turkey? Celebrate with a luxury or two? Good on you, it can’t be all doom and gloom. But those early December paydays make January a long and difficult month, so I’m sure you will have (in some way) reviewed youar finances to see if you are making the most of your money.
wherever I‘ve worked, I have seen fundraisers often fall into the traps of not using all of the right measures to assess the true value of certain fundraising activities. Let’s look at Acquisition specifically.
Cancer Research UK is expecting its fundraising income to fall by 4 to 5 per cent this financial year, a drop of around £15m. The UK's biggest charity declared the figure after a story appeared on a financial website claiming that it was planning to slash its budget by up to £643m over the next five years in preparation for a squeeze on fundraising as a result of the economic slump. The story said CRUK has produced an internal report which blamed the "dramatic decline in the economy" over the past year, for the proposed cutbacks.
Scope is axing five key management roles in a "pre-emptive strike" against a possible recession.
Clearly many people will have lost money in recent days and weeks, but I am sure that as many of the super wealthy will not have done. And even if they have I am not sure they will all be worried. One of my colleagues interviewed a potential donor for a client about two weeks ago. That interviewee described this current situation as "a poor man's crisis.
When does a charity need to refuse a donation and when does it have to suck it up and work with the enemy? At what point should a charity ‘just say no’? At a seminar on ethical challenges for Jewish charities hosted by the Jewish Association for Business Ethics last week, I was struck by the comments of one of the speakers.
I'm in the process of leaving Australia, my home for the past nine years, as I'm off to live in London for the foreseeable future.Whilst tidying up my life over here I've contacted some of my favourite Australian organizations to whom I've been a regular monthly giver over a long period of time to ask them to stop my direct debit payments.
More than £36m has been invested in charitable causes by the Vodafone Group Foundation and its network of local foundations over the last financial year.
The Archbishops Council of the Church of England and the Board of Governors of the Church Commission have stepped in to plug a £1.2m deficit left after this year's Lambeth Conference in Kent.
The chair of Remember a Charity has called for a "new era" of leadership in legacies in order to protect the income source from the economic downturn.
FRSB changes earn cautious response from sector Recent changes to the Fundraising Standards Board's membership fee structure and engagement strategy have received cautious praise from the sector.
Fundraising Standards Board chief executive Jon Scourse has admitted that the self-regulatory scheme will face financial problems if it doesn't attract more members.
A New Zealand charity has severed its links with the Australian-based Movember fundraising organisation following a dispute over how the raised funds should be spent.
Oxford University has launched a campaign to raise £1.25bn, the largest sum ever sought by a European academic institution, to fund expansion projects and compete better internationally.
Charities that plan to abide strictly by new government guidance on professional fundraising could appear less cost-effective to the public than charities who do the bare minimum, according to a leading charity lawyer.
The funding of disaster recovery is too inflexible and focuses on short-term objectives, which prevents smooth and rapid reconstruction and recovery.
The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator has been granted interim orders against the ME Foundation because of suspicions over a lack of charitable expenditure.
Cancer Research UK is to cut its programme of international challenge events because they are no longer proving "cost-effective".
Charity lottery operators have discovered their voices over the past few years - and the government seems to be listening. New laws brought in under the Gambling Act 2005 have gradually trickled down into legislation, which will culminate this September when the new licence regime is introduced for all gambling operators. But the operators have not sat quietly during the process.
The Institute of Fundraising is one of the organisations owed money as a result of the recent Dialog Group restructure. The Institute will not confirm exactly how much is owed, but PF understands it to be a few thousand pounds in outstanding payments for exhibition stands at last year’s National Convention.
Most charities are reducing the amount they spent on fundraising and publicity as a percentage of total expenditure, the NCVO's latest Almanac shows.
A charity set up by Prince Harry has rejected claims that the royal is angry about its lack of spending to help Aids orphans in southern Africa