# Charity Finance Group offers £5k prize for excellence in charity finance

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/09/02/charity-finance-group-offers-5k-prize-for-excellence-in-charity-finance/
- Published: 2015-09-02T10:47:56+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charity Finance Group has launched the 2015 Adrian Randall Challenge Prize, offering
a £5,000 prize for excellence in charity finance.**

The award aims to share, encourage and inspire financial leadership in charities.
It recognises a charity finance professional who has been particularly successful,
ideally delivering projects or implementing ideas that can be replicated in other
charities. For example these could involve:

• responding to changes within an organisation in an innovative way, or establishing
a way of communicating changes that has been particularly effective

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• adapting processes or ways of working to meet new challenges

• supporting staff to understand developments, or implementing something new to 
improve finance processes within an organisation

• embedding the finance function at the heart of an organisation’s strategy, by 
developing processes to improve partnerships with other teams such as fundraising

The winner will receive a grant of £5,000 to develop further their work as a charity
finance professional.

![adrian-randall](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/images/
news/adrian-randall.jpg)

Adrian Randall

The prize was established in memory of [Adrian Randall](http://www.cfg.org.uk/about-us/adrian-randall-prize/about-adrian-randall.aspx),
a founding member of the Charity Finance Group, who died in 2012.

Nominations for the 2015 [Adrian Randall Challenge Prize](http://www.cfg.org.uk/about-us/adrian-randall-prize.aspx)
close on 30 October 2015.

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