The Finance Hub is developing financial sustainability in the voluntary and community sector and social enterprise (Third Sector) within England. We are addressing finance matters in the third sector through the delivery of an integrated programme of research, development, training and information dissemination.

The Finance Hub identifies where gaps in support and information exist and then look for the best ways of filling those gaps and pointing people in the right direction.

The Finance Hub works in the areas of procurement, fundraising, social enterprise, and financial management. The accountable body is the Charities Aid Foundation.

Set up as part of the government’s ChangeUp programme, funded by Capacitybuilders to increase capacity in the sector, it is one of six National Hubs offering support and information.

Funding for the Finance Hub has been confirmed until March 2008.

The national hubs are designed to improve the quality of infrastructure support available to voluntary and community organisations by providing resources, developing training and promoting good practice in their specialist areas.

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is the accountable body for the Finance Hub.

Finance Hub is based at CAF’s London office, near Chancery Lane.

Charities Aid Foundation,
St Andrew’s House,
18-20 St Andrew’s Street,
London
EC4A 3AY

This website signposts, and provides a gateway, to relevant information, advice and support on funding and finance.

The Finance Hub has also commissioned research to map out the funding and finance landscape of the voluntary and community sector (VCS).

To plug the gaps identified as a result of this research various tools and resources have been developed that can be fond under the relevant subject areas on this site.

It is not the intention of the hub build on existing expertise rather than reinvent the wheel or to duplicate work that is already being undertaken .

The FH is made up of a partnership board who steer the direction of the Hub’s work programme.

It consists of 14 member organisations that have a broad range of community and voluntary sector interests and expertise.

Capacitybuilders will be announcing the tender process for National Support Services in the Spring. They have consulted with the regional consortia to see what themes they want.

There are six National Hubs of expertise in the areas of::

• Financing
• Governance
• ICT
• Performance
• Volunteering
• Workforce

For further information on the National Hubs go to:

The Hubs’ programme directors meet on a monthly basis to keep each other updated on developments within their hubs, exchange information and work collaboratively.

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