Alongside accounting, tax and VAT updates for charities, the Conference will also help you understand the changes arising from the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA). Learn from legal expert, Jonathan Brinsden, how these changes, including the transition to digital accounts filing, will impact charities and get ready for the changes.

Kate Sayer will join us again, following her very popular session at the 2024 Conference – challenging us to think differently about risk, and sharing tools that we can use to enhance our chances of success. We will also hear from the Charity Commission’s Chief Executive, David Holdsworth, about his first months in office and his assessment of where the key opportunities and challenges lie for charities in the year ahead.

A thought-provoking keynote from New Economics Foundation’s CEO, Dr Danny Sriskandarajah, will inspire you to imagine how the charity sector needs to change to meet the challenges of a more just and sustainable future, and you will hear from our own CEO, Alan Vallance, and other experts about the skills and qualities that will be in high demand as charities adapt their finance functions to the changing environment of digital progress and sustainability measures.

The Conference also includes sessions about the tricky topic of overheads and other indirect costs. How can charities help their funders to assess efficiency and impact without relying on flawed metrics? We will discuss this, the need for fairer funding, and explore how charities can find the right balance between direct and indirect costs.

We will also discuss charity banking; we’ll hear from CAF Bank’s CEO Alison Taylor about critical discussions between UK banking executives, charity regulators and sector leaders to address the banking challenges that many charities experience and discuss with Bates Wells’ Luke Fletcher and others how charities can enhance their banking and investment decisions.

• 8 hours of verifiable CPD: kickstart the year with vital technical updates on charity accounting, taxation and regulation from expert speakers and thought-provoking panel discussions and keynotes.
• Reflections from the Charity Commission: CEO David Holdsworth reflects on his first months in post and the outlook for the charity sector in 2025.
• Charity banking: learn about critical discussions between UK banking executives, charity regulators and sector leaders about how charities’ banking challenges can be addressed.
• From accounts-ability to accountability: find out why civil society holds the key to delivering a more just and sustainable future – but only if we change some of the ways that charities work.
• Managing risk for success: instead of focusing on things going wrong, enhance your chances of success with risk management tools.
• The future charity accountant: hear how digital advances and sustainability will change charity accountants’ roles, requiring new skills and ways of working.
• Governance challenges: find out how to modernise your charity’s governance and ensure that charity boards are equipped to succeed.
• ECCTA – impact on charities: hear how the reforms introduced by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA) may impact charities and how to prepare for the changes ahead.

We hope you can join us live on 23 and 24 January 2025 for the virtual Charity Conference. If that’s a busy time for you, you can register now to benefit from the early bird rate and then watch the session recordings in your own time.

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