Report: Charity Income spotlight April 2015

An overview of charity income, reporting a favourable rise in the charity income index of 5%.  This report includes a special focus on trading income and the ways charity shop chains are increasing their profit.

Charity Financials. 2015. Charity Income Spotlight April 2015 Bi-annual report. Wilmington Group.

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Report: Charity Investment Spotlight April 2015

The report examines the investment performance of the top 5,000 UK charities and their investment managers. It looks at how charities have performed over the last 5 years, with a particular focus on changes in the last year.

Charity Financials, June 2015.  Charity Investment Spotlight: bi-annual report. Wilmington Group.

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Report: Managing in the new normal 2015

Charity Finance Group, together with the Institute of Fundraising and PricewaterhouseCoopers, have carried out the eighth annual survey looking into the complex issues and challenges facing charitable organisations. ‘Managing in the New Normal’ 2015 survey shows charities in resilient and optimistic mood but finds that they still need to prepare for an ever challenging future

Charities Finance Group, PriceWaterhouseCoopers & Institute of Fundraising, 2015. Managing in the new normal: the latest instalment in the series of "Managing in a Downturn" surveys.

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Guidance: Sharepoint

The guide, written by Clear People, a microsoft partner organisation, looks at the different editions of SharePoint 2013 available (including on premises and cloud-based).  It advises how to choose best for your organisation and align the product with your overall business and IT strategy.  It includes some key advice, practical implementation issues and ends with a 10 point action plan. 

Clear People, 2015.  Sharepoint 2013 guidelines. 

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Report: Together for Short Lives Three Year Strategy 2015-18

The strategy focuses on five key priority areas: providing information and advice to families; improving the quality of life and death for children and young people; strengthening the commissioning of services so providers are more sustainable; transforming transitions for young people and increasing community engagement and volunteering in children’s palliative care.

Together for Short Lives, 2015.  Together for Short Lives Three Year Strategy 2015-2018: Quality of Life, Quality of Death: Leading Change of Children's Palliative Care. TfSL.

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Article: Does your health and social charity comply with 'deprivation of liberty' rules/

Since the 1st April 2015, any organisation registered with the Care Quality Commission must be able to ensure that any deprivation of liberty of a service user is authorised.  This article provides an overview how charities can ensure they comply with the new law, identify possible deprivations of liberty and the steps a charity needs to take to ensure they receive authority from the Court of Protection.

Evans, S. 2015.  Does your health and social charity comply with "deprivation of liberty" rules?  Finance Magazine.

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Report: Towards the development of outcome measures for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions

This document has been developed to provide a review of the work that was undertaken by the Together for Short Lives and Association of Paediatric Palliative Medicine Outcomes Task Force. As well as describing the work of the taskforce, it also makes recommendations for future steps towards the development of outcome measurement in children's palliative care.

Together for Short Lives, 2015. Towards the development of outcome measures for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.

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Guidance: Stepping Up: a guide to enabling a good transition for young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions

This guide aims to ensure that all young people and their families have a positive experience of growing up and making a good transition to adult services. With young people at its centre, it provides a framework for all services and agencies to work together to support young people along their whole transition journey – as they prepare for adulthood, prepare to move on to adult services and settle into adult services.

Together for Short Lives, 2015. Stepping Up: a guide to enabling a good transition for young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.  TfSL.

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