CFDG relaunches website
Howard Lake | 15 August 2006 | News
CFDG combines Charities Resource Network with core website to offer sector a one-stop-shop
The Charity Finance Directors’ Group’s website has been re-launched this month, taking on the group’s new branding and uniting all its online services in one place.
Visitors to www.cfdg.org.uk and www.thecrn.org.uk will have a unified entry-point, with the online Resource Network services merging with CFDG’s other influencing, educating, networking and informing services. This now gives CFDG members and other professionals in the sector a one-stop-shop for all their needs.
“This new site will make it much easier for us to communicate with our members and the sector, empower them to know more about the issues that concern them and promote their views to the sector and beyond. As a membership organisation sprung from the networking of its members, this is good news for all of us.” Tom Steel, Website and Information Officer
“With a small core team, thanks to the input from our members, CFDG has been punching above its weight for years – it was important to have a more flexible site-structure, so we can actually represent the full variety of CFDG services and activities on the web, and give us a good basis for our future plans. Now we feel we can tell the whole story of what we are about and how many different aspects of charity management finance really impacts on.” David Membrey, Deputy Chief Executive
As well as the two main services – the general website and the Charities Resource Network – being brought together, the site has been enhanced. Policy, consultations, law and regulation are given more space. CFDG members can now download past meeting reports and presentations in an events archive. For Members outside the South East, region-specific pages have been introduced. Furthermore, CFDG’s popular conferences and events have more space on the web, with information and presentation available from the previous 3 years. The site also benefits from an improved text-only version.
For further information, please contact: Susanne Kendler on Tel: 020 7785 6425 or Email:
su*************@cf**.uk
Notes to Editor:
1. The Charity Finance Directors’ Group was set up in 1987 and is an umbrella charity that specialises in helping charities to manage their finance-related functions. Visit www.cfdg.org.uk for further information.
2. The new site has been designed by Ellipsis Media (www.ellipsismedia.co.uk) and converted by Ellipsis and CFDG staff.
3. The Charities Resource Network (CRN) was launched in 2003, supported by a grant from the Community Fund, now the Big Lottery Fund, and is an online database of articles, signposts, case studies and example documents around charity finance, IT, HR and governance. The CRN database, which is now integrated into CFDG’s main site, currently holds about 640 documents and is continuously expanding.
4. CFDG’s new brand was launched at the end of 2005. In order to guarantee cost-effectiveness and apply resources to the best use, CFDG was implementing the brand visuals into its public appearance in phases. The new website closes of the cycle of implementation phases.
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