CFG is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and its latest member newsletter contains a timeline of historic milestones.

These include such notable events as the year of the umbrella body’s first annual dinner (1988), the publication of the first Charity Finance Handbook (1991) and the then CFDG’s registration as a charity (25 April 1996).

It also details the appointment of each chair and chief executive.  Each one, that is, except Mark Freeman, the former chief executive of failed outsourcing agency Charity Business.

Freeman was appointed chair of CFDG in 2000, in between David King (appointed 1998) and Geoff Miller (appointed 2001), and served for about a year. His tenure appears in the timeline on CFG’s website, but has been omitted from the printed version in the March newsletter.  He is the only chair not to be mentioned.

Asked why the organisation had not included Freeman in the document, CFG declined to comment.

Freeman told civilsociety.co.uk he had not seen the newsletter but was “disappointed” to be left off the timeline.  He added that he may take the issue up with CFG.