Hard times: The Charity 250 Index March 2010 0
Topics: Charity 250 Index
Diane Sim
Diane Sim is a freelance consultant specialising in research-based projects in financial and professional services. For Charity Finance magazine she has authored the recent annual surveys on banking, fund management, charity shops and the finance function and is currently working on the annual audit survey.
Sim formerly headed up the retail banking and wealth management division of VRL Knowledgebank, where she was responsible for the company's newsletters, websites, management reports and conferences in those segments. She has also edited newsletters in the financial services sector including European Banker, Cards International and Retail Banker International.
She has also worked as a consultant on research-based strategy projects for UK and international financial services clients, both at Davis International Banking Consultants (1994-2001) and Coopers and Lybrand (1989-1994).
Diane Sim reports on lacklustre results as 250 Index charities grapple with significant declines in voluntary and investment income.
Some 66 per cent of charities would recommend their supplier to other charities, up from 63 per cent last year, according to Civil Society IT’s third annual Charity CRM Software Survey. For the third...
Diane Sim reports on above average returns for the leading charities despite the poor investment climate.
The percentage of charities which would recommend their accounting software supplier to another charity is at an all-time high of 78 per cent, in this year's Charity Accounting Software Survey.
Yet for...
Now in its seventeenth year, Charity Finance’s annual review of the charity audit market and related reporting issues is based on data from 1,097 charities with collective annual income of £20.3bn and...
A record number of firms participated in the 2009 Charity Finance Fund Management Survey, which is based on information from 49 fund managers with a combined total of £40bn of charity funds under management....
Charity shops have defied the recession and increased their profits by 4.1 per cent in the past year, according to the Charity Shops Survey 2009.
While the gross income of the 69 shop chains in the...
It’s been a tough time for charity finance directors over the last year and the next 12 months show few signs of respite.
Against a backdrop of economic recession, charities are suffering from low...