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 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

Recession Resources and Support
NAVCA have created a webpage to inform you of the support available from them. Some of the new programmes set up specifically to deal with the recession are Networking Support Grants, Local Resilience Action Plans, and other free learning and consultancy events.

Real Help Now
The Governments new online newsletter detailing the action being taken all round the country to help the economy through the recession. It can be searched by region allowing you to be sure that the schemes will be available to your organisation.

Recession Support for Arts Organisations
We invited Robin Osterley, Chief Executive of Making Music, to represent the arts for our recession support website, click above to hear Robin's thoughts on how voluntary arts organisations can survive and potentially take advantage of the economic climate.

New Philanthropy Capital
Charities in the recession: a lesson for trustees.

Charities Aid Foundation Helpsheet for Charities in Hard Times
During this economic crisis there is one message which comes through loud and clear - charities need the confidence of those who support them. Although not an exhaustive list, these practical pointers are aimed at assisting charities in surviving the current economic downturn.

The Charity Commission - The economic downturn: 15 questions trustees need to ask
The checklist is a template which can be used by different types and sizes of charity, and adapted to suit particular circumstances. It is intended to help structure a discussion as an agenda item at a trustee meeting, away day discussion or planning meeting. It will also help the trustees to develop a plan and timetable for action. The Charity Commission strongly encourages trustee boards of all charities to use this checklist.

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.