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Charity Investment Governance Principles (CIGP)
- Website
- 16 Jan 2025
CIGP guides charities in how to improve their governance practice for investment decisions.
Charity reserves: building resilience (CC19)
- Website
- 29 Jan 2016
The Charity Commission’s guide to what charity reserves are and how to develop and report on a charity's reserves policy.
Investing charity money: guidance for trustees (CC14)
- Website
- 01 Aug 2023
The Charity Commission’s guide helps trustees make the right decisions about investing charity funds.
New tool helps put Charity Investment Governance Principles into practice
- Article
- 28 Jul 2026
A new self-assessment tool has launched to help charities apply the Charity Investment Governance Principles, enabling charity leaders to check if their investment governance is working well and demonstrate they're meeting the key outcomes. Aimed primarily at larger charities holding investments, it's available to download now on the CIGP website, along with resources for smaller charities.
Is your charity missing out on withholding tax reclaims?
- Article
- 29 Aug 2025
Charities face increasing pressure to make the most of limited resources. Maximising investment returns is crucial to furthering charitable causes, yet a significant source of lost income often goes unnoticed: foreign withholding tax (WHT) on investment income. Year on year, charities investing internationally may be losing thousands, even millions, of pounds to withholding tax that could potentially be fully reclaimed. Here’s what you need to know.
The Charity Commission’s evolving approach to increasing registrations – a shift to modern solutions?
- Article
- 04 Sep 2025
In its recent blog post, the Charity Commission shared that, in July 2025, it received over 1,000 registration applications in a single month for the first time. This milestone reveals that the sector continues to grow despite financial pressures. However, we also learned why AI-generated content in applications can result in application rejections.
Banking guide for voluntary organisations
- Website
- 22 Jul 2024
Opening a bank account is an important step for any voluntary organisation. This new digital guide from UK Finance simplifies the process, by giving you guidance on how to choose, open and manage a bank account.
CFG’s guide for charities – communicating with your bank
- Website
- 10 Jul 2025
The guide is a practical toolkit designed for small to medium-sized charities. Its aim is to support those charities that need to raise an issue or concern with their banks.
Banking for charities
- Article
- 06 Mar 2024
Demand for charity services continues to grow. Be it the cost-of-living crisis, rising mental health challenges or our ageing populations, charities are finding themselves under increasing pressure to deliver more for less. Given the challenges they currently face in doing vitally important work, you’d hope that accessing banking services would be straightforward for them. However, it’s becoming increasingly challenging for charity trustees to do so. But why?
Going beyond CC14: can you help create investment governance principles for the charity sector?
- Article
- 07 Feb 2024
CFG has recently announced the launch of a new project which will develop principles for trustees and charity leaders.
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