Workshops Archive

Workshop: Introducing Procurement Cards: Anticipated Benefits and Hurdles

8th July 2010

Charles Nall, Corporate Services Director, The Children's Society and Chair of The Charity Finance Directors Group shares his experience of using procurement cards.
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Workshop: Using Technology to Streamline Finance Processes and Improve Financial Decision Making

9th June 2010

Stephen Masson, Head of Finance, The Wellcome Trust shares his experience of implementing a new finance system to improve functionality and reduce costs.
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Workshop: Making a Success of Public Service Delivery

6th May 2010

Kevin Barnes, Director of Finance, Barnardos shares his experience of success in public service delivery.
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Agenda Consulting

Maximising Gift Aid Return

13th November 2008

Over the past few years Help the Aged have invested significantly in their Gift Aid processes. Charles will explain the rigorous processing within the organisation, which has led to consistently clean audits over the past few years, and includes using a state-of-the-art database, outsourcing the chasing of gift aid forms to a telemarketing company, and moving all the forms onto an electronic system to make the audit trail easier to follow. Help the Aged's trading arm has just passed the £1million gift aid mark, and Charles will also discuss how this was achieved, including the careful balance that was struck to protect VAT, corporation tax and business rates relief. This workshop will be relevant to both those charities with a trading arm and those without.
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Agenda Consulting

Using Balanced Scorecard Reporting Strategically

30th October 2008

Peter joined ARC in March last year just as they were completing a 5-year strategic plan. To help the finance function to achieve the plan and to demonstrate quality, Peter developed a bespoke balanced scorecard reporting system which includes the key elements of the plan along with specific measures. He believes that balanced scorecard reporting is a key tool in internal communications, allowing him to really engage the trustees in the activities of the finance function.
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Agenda Consulting

Finance Count Workshop: Transforming the finance function to deliver the organisation's strategy

24th June 2008

As FD Melvin Coleman has led Amnesty International UK's Finance Function through significant change over the last 10 years. This has included changes to the structure, processes and skills within the function to deliver greater efficiency and more value to the organisation. Melvin will talk about the challenges of leading change, gathering information to inform the process, and developing skills and technology.
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