Useful Links
ACEVOs Free Guide to Surviving the Economic Downturn
A Charities Guide is a compilation of advice from key experts in the fields of HR, fundraising and finance.
How to Survive the Recession
Business Weeks guide for CEOs. Compiling four actions CEOs need to take to make sure their company emerges triumphant from the recession.
A game plan for ensuring effective leadership in a recession
Business Week has written an article on how to ensure a CEO is successfully steering their business through a recession.
How to survive the recession
A Third Sector article written by Ben Kernighan, deputy chief executive, NCVO.
How to manage your business in a recession
A Fortune Magazine article giving ten ways to weather the storm.
Recession Survival: Seven Essential Career tips
From the nationally renowned corporate culture, leadership and communication expert and the author of Make The Right Choice, a guide to helping people stay positive whiles struggling to survive a recession. This page also has 'Twelve Ideas to reduce stress and Have more Fun at Work'.
10 Actions leaders can take to ride out a recession
A study by the Forum Corporation has identified ten actions that successful leaders can take in three areas during economic downturns to settle the organisation, keep it headed in the right direction, and emerge on top.
Third Sector Mentoring
Provides managers, trustees and team leaders with an ongoing one-to-one development relationship that is both mutual and intentional.
At the heart of the matter
"Naked entrepreneur," Craig-Dearden-Phillips gives his thoughts on recession management in characteristically warts-and-all style. As a chief executive he understands the feeling of standing at a cliff edge.
Doherty Stobbs
Specialise in helping third sector organisations with employee/employer relations, personal growth and development and mergers.
At the heart of the matter
Guardian writer Craig-Dearden-Phillips has addressed how third sector managers should respond to the downturn.
'What did you do in the recession' part1 and part2
In June last year CFDG's CEO, Keith Hickey, wrote an article which looks at the current economic climate and provides some thoughts on how Finance Directors can support their charities through the challenges ahead.
What Did the Winners of the Last Recession Do Right?
An Accenture article looking at the companies that came out of the financial gate most strongly after the last recession of the early 1990s to find out what they did right.
Charities and the Credit Crunch Advice
Russell Cooke solicitors who specialise in charities have written an article for CTN - the trustees network - giving advice on Charities and the Credit Crunch.
CAF has opened Financial Crisis Helpline for charity leaders worried about their organisations
financial viability. These are one-off confidential discussions. Freephone number is 0800 9802 000. More information can be found by clicking here.
Charities and Insolvency
Howarth Clark Whitehill have prepared a detailed guide covering issues of fund accounting, negative balance sheets, wrongful trading and the responsibilities of trustees. This is available on their document library to CFDG members