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1 month ago | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Homepage Fundraising Charities increasingly aware of need to integrate AI, survey shows Ian Allsop finds that respondents to our annual CRM survey are increasingly aware of the potential benefit of new tech capabilities... Artificial intelligence (AI) has its detractors. Environmental: it soaks up energy. Social: it threatens job security. Existential: it will soon be beyond our control. All valid arguments. But whether we like it or not, it is here and it is going to change the way we live...
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1 month ago | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Homepage Finance Ian Allsop: The best way for charities to build economic might would be a system of tariffs This charity lark is showing no sign of abating. As popular as ever, if not even more so. The Charity Commission received a record number of submissions to register as a charity last year, with almost 10,000 applications. Not all were successful, but in the calendar year 2024, a total of 5,157 organisations in England and Wales made it onto the regulator’s big list. The commission says...
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2 months ago | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Homepage Finance Ian Allsop: Can we be sure the commission’s guidance is not actually from a scammer?
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Homepage Finance Ian Allsop: ‘Maybe one day he will be able to establish charities on Mars.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Ian Allsop summarises what charity lawyers predict lies ahead for the charity sector...
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Homepage Finance Ian Allsop: ‘Tough luck guys.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Rathbones convened a roundtable discussion of charity investment experts to explore the latest views on the delicate balance between furthering charitable purpose and maximising profits, Ian Allsop took notes...
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Homepage Finance Ian Allsop: ‘Taylor Swift has not ended up with multi-million-pound government contracts’ During a recent discussion with colleagues on current topical issues of interest to charity sector people, one that came up was “engaging the next generation”. How can we tap into the potential of young people to become donors, trustees, employees, campaigners – and leaders? This is not only a recent concern, of course. It has been a challenge ever since I was first working in the...
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Homepage Finance Ian Allsop: ‘The amounts involved still pale in comparison to what Boris used to receive’ One of the technical briefing pieces I commissioned for this month’s Charity Finance was on new guidance around fundraising and commercial participators. You know, those schemes where a product boasts about proceeds from sales going to a good cause. Often, the amount skimmed off the profits that actually reaches a charity is miniscule and the cynic might suggest that the main reason a...
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
civilsociety.co.uk | Ian Allsop
Homepage Finance Investment Consultants Survey 2024: Providing advice fit for a new era The role of cash, new greenwashing rules, the impact of a Labour government, and revised CC14 guidance are on the minds of investment consultants, discovers Ian Allsop... In 2023, Charity Finance surveyed the landscape of investment consultants for the first time. While recognising that it would be difficult to cover the entire market, the motivation for such a survey was to try and capture the increasing...
