Finance

Scotland's charity regulator OSCR has published a short study of resilience in Scottish charities. The independent report provides analysis of OSCR data and insight into common factors which tend towards resilience, or otherwise, and identifies the critical importance of governance alongside financial considerations.

The Charity Finance Directors' Group has published the results of its annual Salary and Employment Survey. This found that roughly one-fifth of respondents reported no pay rise in 2009, and the most common pay award was 1 per cent.

See our previous item on this topic for the main round-up of the major political parties' manifestos.

-- Sector umbrella body for Wales WCVA has now got a document with extracts relevant to the voluntary sector from Conservative, Labour and LibDem plus Plaid Cymru, which will be updated when more information is released by Welsh Labour, Welsh Conservatives and Welsh Liberal Democrats, http://www.wcva.org.uk/news/dsp_news.cfm?newsid=1467.

Trade unions for youth and community workers in the voluntary sector have indicated that they are to push for a substantial pay rise, reflecting a large shortage of workers. Unite, Unison, the UCU and the NUT also want improved job security. See Third Sector news item http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/996506/.

How charity accounts data could be required to be filed online has been revealed by HM Revenue and Customs at a meeting organised by the Charity Finance Directors' Group. The iXBRL online filing requirement would only apply to incorporated charities.

Some news from the rush to get legislation passed into law before Parliament was dissolved:

A detailed examination of accounts filed for charities with an annual income of less than £25,000 has been published by OSCR, the Scottish regulator.