About CharityForum

About CharityForum

Facing the future of non-profit leadership in an era of funding challenges

86 percent of charities

86% of charities say that demand for their services has increased, with 45% reporting concerns around financial sustainability.

Source: Charities Aid Foundation, June 2024

Declining donations, increasing costs, income degradation, and member engagement are just some of the challenges charities are now navigating. Yet charities remain the backbone of UK society.

Declining donations
Sharing knowledge

CharityForum, founded by Novacroft, is a group of amazing minds from across the UK charity sector, collaborating to find ways to overcome today’s challenges, share ideas and knowledge, and shine a light on future opportunities.

CharityForum is future facing, navigating towards growth.

CharityForum’s mission is helping the charity sector be fit to thrive, through collaboration and action.

#CharityForum raises awareness around the human side to tech/digital evolution. [Now, there is] more advocacy of the impact of tech on our workforce and the need to transform.

Stephanie Borne – Senior Charity Professional

[#CharityForum] has really helped stretch my thinking and consider longer term strategic direction. [#CharityForum has meant] greater awareness and consideration of some of the broader issues affecting the charity sector and society as a whole.

Kate Van Der Plank – Head of Volunteering, PDSA

The CharityForum has helped deepen my understanding of the implication of the changes we’re facing. I’m really applying these learnings into how I’m strategically projecting into the future. What’s particularly positive about the CharityForum is that Novacroft is sharing tools that are practically applied and has experience of them, and tangible examples to show, from deployment at Novacroft. In an era when diversity of thought is important, the CharityForum enables me to bring different angles to my role.

James Byron – Director of Marketing & Engagement, Dorothy House Hospice