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Rosaline Jenkins, Sustainable Funding Officer. Just returned from maternity leave and joining the funding blogging team.

This week's news round up includes coverage of Eric Pickles inviting examples of unfair sector funding cuts and news from our Compact All Party Parliamentary Group meeting.

This is a guest post by Hayley Simpson FCCA, Manager at McCabe Ford Williams, Registered Auditors, Licensed Insolvency Practitioners & Chartered Accountants based in Kent.

This is a guest blog from Sue Pearlman, who is a Trusted Associate with NCVO Consultancy. Sue talks about how important the relationship between a CEO and Chair is. She asks you to test your assumptions and talk to each other to work out how you will both work together.

Are you an established Chief Executive with an incoming Chair?  Are you an established Chair with an incoming Chief Executive?  Are you both new together? How will you work together? 

As readers of my previous posts will know, I believe that charities, social enterprises, community groups and voluntary organisations need to focus on impact leadership, not just impact measurement.  This means organisations totally focused on achieving the most impact they can and it means changes at every level of an organisation, especially planning, improvement, and communication.

Recently, the National Audit Office published their long awaited report on how central government is implementing the Compact.