Accountants Plus

Day

Wednesday 11 February

Time slot

15:00-16:00

Room

Harris room
Wheelchair accessible

Contact

John Brown

Topics

Finance, funding & fundraising Governance, strategy & legal

Overall aim

1. Strengthen Financial Literacy and Understanding
2. Improve Budgeting and Financial Planning Skills
3. Build Financial Sustainability

Description

Accountants Plus are specialist charity accountants, based in Lanarkshire, who partner with charities and social enterprises across Scotland. Through engagement with our current charity partners, and engagement with several third sector interfaces and social enterprise networks across the West of Scotland in 2025, we realise the increasing impact of rising costs and reduced funding in the third sector. This has been highlighted by SCVO across numerous research papers, and CEO Anna Fowlie, in the September interview with The Herald newspaper, in which Anna stated, “we are witnessing a slow-motion apocalypse,” when referring to at least one thousand Scottish charities closing every year.

With this information, Accountants Plus plan and deliver financial management focussed workshops to support the sector, and that will be the focus of this workshop.

• Forecasting, budgets, and cashflows
• Reserves
• Restricted funding
• Risk management
• Funding challenges & income generation
• Economy

Who is the event aimed at?

Corporate services (comms/finance etc), Directors, Trustees

Who is speaking at this event?

Fiona Struthers - Audit & Charities Manager, Accountants Plus
Fiona is responsible for all the firm’s charity clients. Fiona has been delivering for charities since 1994 and has considerable experience in charity accounts preparation, independent examination, and audit. She has dealt with charities in a wide variety of sectors including religious organisations, community support, hospice, theatre, medical research, health awareness, and conservation.

Colin Lumsden - Partner, Accountants Plus
Colin has 25 years of accountancy experience, where he has worked with a range of clients in the private and charity sector.