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In The Round Advisors love helping Charities improve. Training, coaching, consulting or rolling our sleeves and helping. Whatever it...
Why does the Charity Commission appoint an Interim Manager and what do they do?
Not for the first time in recent months the Charity Commission have appointed an interim manager to deal with the affairs of a charity...
Help is at hand for Charity Trustees
The Charity Commission have their faults but no one can fault them for the effort they make to keep Trustees informed. The recent...
What's the secret to making the Charity Governance Code work?
At In The Round Advisors, we are big fans of the Charity Governance Code (https://www.charitygovernancecode.org/en) Within the section on...
How to get the best advice for your Charity
Finding the right support and advice for your Charity can be a challenge. What is it that's really needed? Would a generalist or...
Decision making ... what you need to know
The role of Trustee carries a range of responsibilities, arguably the most important of which is to make decisions. In the latest video...
It's good to talk
In the first of a new series, In The Round Advisors directors Sue Thorn and Ian Crocombe talk about how to bring Continuous Improvement...
Don't just produce your performance data, communicate it
I wrote this blog entry recently to highlight the critical role performance measurement reporting has in organisational culture. I've...
The myths about Charity reserves
There is a lot of misinformation about charity reserves and that is particularly true as Covid-19 has decimated some charities’ reserves...
Picking the right team really matters
One of the most difficult areas for a charity to manage is to have an efficient and effective board of trustees with the right skill sets...
If you want different outcomes, you need to think differently
RSPCA to make up to 300 redundancies 60 redundancies planned at Breast Cancer Now Oxfam funding crisis puts 200 UK jobs at risk The...
Dealing with property matters- a real need to take good advice.
Charity enquiries published by the Charity Commission are always a good source of material to learn what not to do as a trustee A recent...
Emotional responses are never neutral – successful communication as we emerge from Covid-19
Many membership societies and associations are coming to understand that the way communications will be received has changed – subtly,...
3 steps to sustainable funding
Achieving a sustainable inflow of funds is a constant challenge for charities of all sizes and unfortunately there’s no ‘one size fits...
3 things your charity can do to define its ‘new normal’ experience
I’ve previously written about my views on the ‘new normal’, the range of areas you really ought to consider in preparing for whatever...
How you do what you do really matters
If you’re a Charity CEO, let me ask you a question. What’s the single most important piece of knowledge that will enable you to move out...
Just what is 'new normal'?
For Charity Chairs, CEOs and Senior Managers, providing leadership, guidance and support over the last few weeks has probably been the...
Continuous Improvement for Charities
Shortly before the lockdown, we delivered our first 'Introduction to Continuous Improvement' workshop. As the pandemic has progressed,...
COVID-19 and associations
Most people agree that COVID-19 is likely to cause people across the world to re-examine assumptions and behaviours. It’s unlikely that...
Better together
People who have known me for a while have listened to me bang on before about charities wasting resources by not collaborating more with...