Kate Sayer advises a company secretary on how to handle an uncooperative trading company.

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 audit fees of £22.2m.

The fourth annual Charity IT Conference 2009 returns to explore both some of the inspirational and exciting developments in technology and its use across a wide range of charitable organisations, as well its role as an enabler of change – whether of internal working practices or in service delivery. With sessions aimed both at technicians and strategic managers your Charity IT Conference this year looks at the differing roles technology plays across the breadth of the organisation from frontline services to back-office processes with speakers from a wide range of smaller and larger charities.

It is the responsibility of the chief executive to ensure that trustees have sufficient information to make informed decisions. Kate Sayer describes the essential components of a board paper requiring a major decision to be made by a board of trustees.