New survey for charity trustees on the SORP – closes 7 December
Posted By: Jenny Ebbage
The SORP of Statement of Recommended Practice is under review and there are a number of specialist groups reviewing aspects of the SORP. If your charity prepares accounts on an accruals basis you must apply the Charities SORP. To help the SORP Committee to seek view on the current SORP there are se...
£3.3m More Funding For The Third Sector – VSCE Covid Recovery Fund
Posted By: Jenny Ebbage
The Covid Recovery Fund launched on 12 November 2020 is to help the third sector to safely deliver essential services during the Covid-19 crisis. Applications close on 11 December 2020. It will be distributed by Co-operation Ireland and Rural Community Network. You can find out more here: http...
Webinar –Social Enterprise Legal Structures & the Importance of a Board
Posted By: Jenny Ebbage
We are delighted to be participating in the Social Enterprise NI webinar series on Tuesday 24th November at 12 noon where Jenny Ebbage & Sarah Burrows, will go through the differing legal structures that a social enterprise can be and the importance of having a Board that will help with your gov...
Issue #8 Charity and Social Enterprise Newsletter
Posted By: Jenny Ebbage
To coincide with #TrusteesWeek we were pleased to circulate our latest Charity and Social Enterprise newsletter to our clients and contacts yesterday. The bumper edition includes articles on social housing, results of the recent Covid-19 sector survey, Will Aid 2020 and much more....
Posted By: Jenny Ebbage
The Institute of Fundraising, Co3 and Pro Bono Economics updated Covid-19 and the Charity Sector in NI survey in October 2020 made for some serious reading – http://www.co3.bz/sites/default/files/CO3%20Covid19%20Members%20Survey%20October%202020.pdf It looked at the sector 6 mon...
Corporate Governance Temporary Relaxations Extended – CIGA
Posted By: Jenny Ebbage
The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 in June 2020 introduced some welcome but temporary changes to the corporate governance and insolvency regime up to 30 September 2020. There have been recent extensions to some of those relaxations made by Regulations and Philip Gordon has outlined tho...
Is Your Charity Entitled To Its Rates Relief?
Posted By: Jenny Ebbage
An interesting thematic report was issued in September by the Charity Commission for NI setting out some case studies on varied issues arising from charity rates relief. One of the significant cases shows the trustees not claiming the relief to which the char...
