Many small companies, including small Community Interest Companies (CICs) have a small number of Directors, but what is the “legal minimum”?

This short article explores in a little more depth the impacts of the cost of living crisis on charity giving and what charities might be able to do to respond.

Robust (and proportionate) financial controls and delegated authorities policies are essential for protecting your charity, its Trustees, staff and volunteers but many small and even medium sized charities don’t have them in place. This short article explain why these policies are so important.

While the pandemic has been a tough time for many charities, others have been hugely successful in winning new funding and work over the last two years. Has this resulted in mission drift for those charities and is a course correction now needed for some?

This short article explores some emerging trends in charity fundraising following the volatility of the last two years during the pandemic, particularly in individual giving and grants from trusts and foundations.

Do your Trustees understand their legal duties? Our experience is that in small charities they often don’t and this can lead to problems. This article provides a simple synopsis of charity Trustee duties.

4 years on from GDPR and new Data Protection legislation is in the offing. What will this mean for charities and fundraising in particular?

With continued concern about the governance of charities clear to see in the press and Charity Commission publications, this short articles explores why all charities should regularly review the health of their governance arrangements.

We are delighted that Almond Tree Strategic Consulting’s long-standing commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has recently been recognised through renewal of our CSR Accreditation, this time at the Gold award level.

The Charities Act 2022 became law in February 2022 and the Government has recently published its implementation plan for the new Act. But what will it mean for small charities?

In the third blog in our series we reflects from Emma Hale, Grants Manager at Clarion Futures on the work we have been doing with their partners since late 2020 and the impacts of their Recovery and Resilience Programme on both the foundation and their partners.

This is the second in a short series of blogs reflecting on the work we have been doing support small charities and social enterprises on behalf of Clarion Futures. This blog focuses on the findings from the evaluation of our work.

This is the first in a short series of blogs we will publish in the coming weeks reflecting on the work we have been doing support small charities and social enterprises on behalf of Clarion Futures.

Pandemic nor not, charities operate in a constant state of crisis. In this guest blog, William Roberts offer four principles to move your charity from crisis to calm.

Unsurprisingly, the pandemic has stimulated a large and sustained increase in cashless giving and the received wisdom appears to be that it is here to stay. But is there evidence to support the receive wisdom? It seems there may be.

The voluntary sector has gone through as much change as any over the last few years. In this guest blog, Ashley Staines of Volunteero provides some tips around how best to acquire, onboard, engage and retain your volunteers

Sometimes, when we are asked to help with a governance review or strategy development, we quickly discover that the underlying trigger for the charity asking for help is that there is disagreement or even conflict between trustees. This short article explore why this happens and what can be done about it.

We wish all our clients, and everyone working to sustain vital charity services, a restful and enjoyable Christmas and New Year and look forward to working with you in 2022.

In previous blogs we’ve explored what charity fundraising might look like post-Covid and the impacts on grant funding in particular. This article applauds funders for (mostly) stepping up to the mark to keep the sector afloat and meet the needs of vulnerable people during the pandemic.

Diversity on Trustee Boards has been on the agenda for a long time and yet the sector still isn’t stepping up to the mark. This short article explores this critical issue for the sector in a little more detail.