Charity 40 Group
27/01/2010
Baker Tilly’s Charity 40 Group provides a forum for top 250 charities in the country to exchange experiences and share best practice.
When we set up the Group in 2007, we believed there would be real value in top 250 charities having the chance to share their experiences of key sector issues to help to identify and adopt best practice.
The Group is provides an opportunity to network with a substantial group of chairmen, trustees, chief executives, finance directors and other senior executives from charities representing 40% of the sector’s resources.
Charity cuts support service
This year’s Charity 40 Group dinner has affirmed that the coming months will be a hugely challenging time for charities and third sector organisations. To help organisations respond to the expected cuts Baker Tilly is putting together a suite of support services and good practice guidance to enable organisations take appropriate actions, consider innovative ideas for working differently, identify ways to mitigate the effects, and ultimately preserve the positive impact they make on their beneficiaries.
Over the coming months details of this support will be available on our website www.bakertilly.co.uk/charitycutssupport
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Upcoming events
Charity 40 Group suppers
Topic: Getting up close and personal with beneficiaries: What will the personalisation agenda mean for the charity sector?
Date: Wednesday 22 September 2010, London
The personalisation agenda for public services is going to bring about fundamental changes in the way charities work in the future. It is essential therefore that you understand how the empowering of the beneficiary-customer is going to affect your charity. The ACEVO Personalisation Commission is at the forefront of sector discussion on this challenging area.
Speaker
Matthew Pike – Chair, Personalisation Commission, ACEVO
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Background on our Charity 40 Group events
To enable sharing of experiences and good practice Baker Tilly organises:
- a series of supper duscussions where participants from top 250 charities can actively contribute to discussions on key sector issues and
- an annual dinner focussed on networking with peer organisations.
Charity 40 annual dinner
Our Annual Dinner is our major event of the year and provides a chance to network with a large group of top 250 charities and discuss with your peers how their organisations are reacting to current issues in the sector. For our 2009 annual dinner the focus was the current economic difficulties, what large charities are doing to respond to increased needs in society during the recession, and how the sector can help lead the country into recovery.
Charity 40 suppers
Thought provoking discussion is led by highly-informed speakers within the sector who are well placed to provide a strategic insight into current challenges.
Our quarterly round-table supper discussions are for small numbers of participants and enable in-depth discussion of experiences and sharing of best practice, some of the sector’s best qualities. Important lessons learned are shared for the benefit of the wider sector through Baker Tilly’s charity sector publications.
What Charity 40 Group participants say
"The Charity 40 Group gatherings provide a vital confidential briefing and networking opportunity. Baker Tilly are to be applauded for facilitating change and challenge in the sector through these meetings."
Charles Nall, Corporate Services Director, The Children’s Society & Chairman of the Charity Finance Directors’ Group
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A key aspect of the Charity 40 Group is that open sharing of experiences and the identification of best practices to help the wider sector meet the current challenges they are facing. Lessons learned as shared confidentially through Baker Tilly publications which include practical actions that can be considered and adopted.
Set out below are links to these publications:
Governance in larger charities
In this briefing paper observations were drawn from the Baker Tilly Voluntary Sector Governance Survey 2008 in association with CharityFinance and Governance magazines
Charity 40 Group – sharing of lessons learned
A year ago Baker Tilly established the Charity 40 Group – a networking and discussion group for top 250 charities. The name is derived from the fact that these charities represent roughly 40% of the sector’s resources
Discussion notes from our supper speakers
Our last two Charity 40 Group supper discussions have continued to address areas of importance to the whole sector not only to large charities. Through our newsletters we aim to share the learning points arising from these events. Please see the briefings on the talks our speakers made
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If you are a large top 250 charity or independent school as defined by income or assets and would like more information about our suppers and other events, please
contact us.