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Kill zombie projects and review your targets: How charities can act now to protect their finances
Even charities with large reserves expect to be severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Liam Kay reports on the tough calls necessary for facing the future
FD in Five Minutes: Paul Butler
Third Sector speaks to the director of finance and operations at Auditory Verbal UK, the charity for children with hearing loss
Don Bawtree: Trustees and auditors need to raise their game
Also: changes to the Sorp committee, Brexit and transparency reporting
Third Sector Awards 2019: Enterprise Award - Stonewall Equality
Awarded to a social enterprise or charity that has significantly improved its income from its commercial activities in recent years
Third Sector Awards 2019: Finance Team of the Year - Sarcoma UK
Awarded to the finance team that has displayed exceptional financial leadership by, for example, improving the charity's financial performance or by helping it to overcome significant challenges
Third Sector Awards 2019: Marketing Campaign of the Year - Islamic Relief UK for Ramadan Campaign 2018
Awarded to a charity with the best marketing campaign. Examples might include the successful marketing of an organisation's products, services or membership programmes
Four ways to cut costs (without harming the front line)
Doing more for less is tricky to achieve. Liam Kay explores how charities can get more bang for their buck and keep more money for their charitable work
Making a Difference Locally: The funder turning pennies into projects
Rebecca Cooney finds out how Making a Difference Locally is living up to its name
Focus On... Investment
Rethinking the 'rainy day' myths of charity reserves
Trustees can’t spend them, funders won’t pay for them – why the reserves narrative needs a refresh
Could social investment be the answer to your funding crisis?
Only 4,000 or so charities and social enterprises have accessed social investment, but the experts claim there is much more money to be had. Andy Ricketts reports
Seb Elsworth: Championing equality and diversity through social investment
Social investment can help equalities organisations, but has to do more to address diversity in the social investment sector
Nicola Steuer: Do social enterprises hold the answer to the sector's diversity problem?
People from minority backgrounds and marginalised communities have been able to fill leadership roles in social enterprises far more easily than at charities
Kate Rogers: Investment can join the war on climate change
And here are three ways you can help
Kate Rogers: Why a patient investor is a very wise investor
Don't get carried away by euphoria or panic when investing