For Charities Organiational Excellence

We are a progressive consultancy, which employs experts that understand you well and offer advice at a guaranteed low fee. We have a pool of successful professionals who have been directors and senior managers in the not-for-profit sector including charities. What that means they talk and walk non-for profit ethos and practices without loosing the commercial focus that charities have to adopt. Can we say recession is a blessing in disguise for charities as we can provide experts at lower fees than you have been paying for years? Let’s provide you the support that you always wished to have at affordable fees! Charities often lack resources to put in place the robust process and improve the performance; we can provide the solutions which are cost effective to be an effective organisation and deliver the social investment return. Let’s look at the processes and performance management framework! Governance , risk and compliance is one of the areas charity sector is struggling with due to the lack of relevant expertise as the resource constraints of the charities limit them to get the best experts at competitive fees. We can offer that expertise at very competitive price removing the middle man and the ‘brand’ of large professional firms. Why are you paying for the brand and the middle man? Let’s look at your governance and look at your risk map, if you don't have one then we can assist you to put one in place! We have come across the charities often getting accounts done by the practices, which don’t have the expertise of producing the accounts as per the SORP 2005 and the reports are also not complying with the best practice as per the Charity Commission. We have come across charities, which don’t have robust monitoring and even failed to submit the monitoring returns to the sponsoring agencies or funders that not only has financial consequences but also reputational risk. We can help you to look at the ways to improve and be best at compliance along side being a best service delivery organisation. There are many other areas where the large firms deliver less for very large fees e.g. annual statutory accounts, risk management, system analysis, implementation, management advice. We know charities so well that many big firms don’t, as we have worked behind the computers on day to day basis within charities and understand the difficulties you face in extracting the information from the systems. More so often getting the papers ready for important meetings and decision maker’s seems cumbersome. Aren’t we right? There are many reasons why it happens; one of the reasons as we have come across is the system you have might not be for you. We are the best to understand as we have faced such difficulties and dealt with those. If you have implemented the system we can still help you to make the most of it. Let’s help you to make it simple! We can even procure and provide you the best systems to improve you efficiency by automating the processes, which consume not only large amount of your staff resources but also could be the cause of inefficiencies and ineffectiveness. Let’s be your partner in choosing what’s right for you! We not only provide the advice but train you staff too resulting in improved staff throughput, effectiveness, staff morale, motivation and reduced need of external consultants resulting in saving of further costs and dependency. We have specialized knowledge and experience about the public sector. We understand the various regulation, policies, agendas and other government deliberations that have impact on the public sector organisations. We fully understand the resource constraints that public sector organizations work under and the need of maximizing the potential of those resources. We work with you to understand the processes and uproot the wastage to maximize the social investment return. The severe competition for the resources is unprecedented forcing the organizations to look at the basics and get the fundamentals right to achieve the desired efficiency and outcomes. Note: If you have any query relating your financial management, governance, systems, management accounts, budgets, business planning, SORP, SOFA, SIR so on, please feel free to email me on info@planenterprise.com and we will offer free advice. Fayaz Malik www.planenterprise.com