Management and Admin

The Charity Finance Directors Group has produced 'Relocation: A Charity Finance Professional's Guide'. It features lessons from first-hand experience in seven high profile charity premises relocations as well as legal and other professional advice.

It can be downloaded (pdf, 515KB) from http://www.cfdg.org.uk/cfdg/files/best_practice/bp_cfdg_080610.pdf.

The 'Workforce Wheel' from NCVO is "an outcomes tool to help you support and measure change in people management".

It should be used in a joint process involving for example managers, staff, trustees and volunteers, with an internal or external facilitator, to help identify areas of weakness and how to address them. Download (pdf 405KB) via http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/workforce-wheel.

Volunteer lawyers with LawWorks for Community Groups have written a range of legal information fact sheets, covering Employment Law, Corporate Structure and Charity Law, Intellectual Property and Data Protection.

Find the download links (largely in Word format?) via http://www.lawworks.org.uk/?id=Usefulinformation.

Charity Finance Directors' Group and PKF Accountants have launched their ninth annual charity risk survey.

This year 'Managing Risk: moving towards the vision' aims to explore the impact of charity managers' approaches to planning, the assumptions made and recent lessons learned. Start at http://www.pkf.co.uk/riskssurvey.

New resource pages covering 'Trustee Recruitment for Small Organisations' are available on NCVO's website, produced with the help of other support bodies. They are specifically designed for organisations with limited resources, http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/trusteerecruitmentforsmallorganisations.

The internationally respected Center for Civil Society Studies at John Hopkins University in America has examined the record of innovation and performance measurement in the nation's nonprofit sector, also identifying obstacles to more effective activity. This may be useful background reading for those with an interest in this area.

Civil Society Media reports that the Charities Security Forum is considering the creation of a mentoring scheme to give smaller charities access to the security expertise of larger organisations, http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/it/news/content/6646/.

Community Matters has created the website MyCommunitySpace to allow community and voluntary organisations to find or advertise premises for hire, http://mycommunityspace.org.uk. It also has practical guidance on occupying, managing and maintaining community buildings.

At the moment the premises directory is limited to London, but they hope to roll it out nationally.