# CFDG relaunches website

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/08/15/cfdg-relaunches-website/
- Published: 2006-08-15T10:20:56+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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“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*************@******rg.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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