Thursday 31 March 2016

Budget

The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave what was effectively his fourth budget of the year earlier this month. The general consensus seems to be that it was underwhelming in terms of specific sector considerations. Certainly, an important practical outcome was the Government’s decision to protect mandatory charitable business rate relief. There were also specific elements with more relevance to particular types of charity or sub-sections of the sector, including some beneficial tax changes for museums and galleries. The Charity Finance Group (CFG) has produced a good summary paper of the major changes with supporting commentary.

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We’re Recruiting! – Assistant Accountant vacancy

We are looking to build the capacity of our accounts service and are pleased to be in a position to recruit an Assistant Accountant. We are looking for someone with some prior accounting experience or relevant qualification, good communication skills and an ability to work to deadlines with an attention to detail. The main duty of this post will be the preparation of annual accounts for a variety of third sector organisations. Full training, support and supervision will be provided. For the right candidate, there may be support to complete professional qualifications and the ability to progress to the role of Community Accountant in the future. Further details about this opportunity are available on our website.

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Upcoming Accredited E-learning course

WYCAS will be running a new E-Learning course on Financial Practice and Procedures later in the year. This will be accredited at NVQ Level 3 and will cover all the basics of good financial management.  The course will be suitable for trustees, finance workers, volunteer treasurers and anyone else in the third sector interested in developing their financial management knowledge and skills. There is a dedicated page on our website if you would like to know more details about what the course will cover or register an initial interest.

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Free Finance for Trustees Training in Bradford

Some early warning for Bradford based organisations! We will be running two free sessions aimed specifically at developing the finance skills and understanding for trustees (not just treasurers!). The planned dates are 7th and 14th June and we anticipate they will run in the early evening. Please note in this case, the training is restricted to Bradford District based organisations big enough to have paid staff due to the nature of the funding supporting it.
Separately, look out also for the ‘Role of the Treasurer’ training we will be running over the summer months. This will also be free.

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Last chance to give us your feedback!

Our annual service evaluation survey has been running this month. If you’ve received any of our services in the last year you will have received a hard copy survey form or link to a short electronic survey. If so, we would be very grateful if you could complete this and let us know how we did. We particularly would like know if there is anything you think we could do better or differently. It should only take a couple of minutes. Although the closing date has just passed we can include all responses that are made before the end of the month. Thank you to all those to have given us your views to date!

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E-bulletin

Our e-bulletin is issued on a monthly basis and sent directly to registered subscribers. It is also available from our website. Please note that information and resources contained in the e-bulletin are general in nature and not intended as specific advice or recommendations. We welcome any feedback on the content and format so that we can improve it and make sure it meets your needs. Please let us know  if you have any comments or suggestions.

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Our services

WYCAS provides a range of specialist services designed to meet the needs of the third sector:

• One to one support and training
• Preparation of year-end accounts
• Independent examination
• Financial training courses and workshops
• Computerising accounts
• Bookkeeping and management accounts
• Advice and information
• Bespoke consultancy projects

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