The Association of Charitable Organisations (ACO) provides member charities with a platform to support the continuing development of their organisation through:
Providing Learning and Knowledge Sharing Opportunities
We provide a platform for benchmarking and sharing best practice through running frequent member-only events, bespoke webinars, training opportunities and conferences. We partner with leading organisations in our sector and invite expert speakers to our events to ensure value in participation.
We also manage a regular series of Specialist Interest Groups to give members the opportunity to come together in an informal, non-competitive environment. These groups currently include:
- CEO Forum
- Small Charities
- Caseworker
- Impact & Evaluation
- Fundraising
- International Beneficiaries
- Finance Forum
- Anti-Fraud
- EDI
- Marcomms
We publish our monthly Charity News Review e-newsletter – that provides updates on ACO and member activity, plus a round-up of useful resources for charities, thought-leadership articles, and policy/sector news updates.
We also regularly conduct research and publish reports around themes of direct relevance to our membership.
Offering you support and assistance
We listen closely to our members to provide charities with the support and assistance they need. Whether its running a training session or event on a topic raised to us by our members as being one of importance to them, to connecting members with a colleague at a fellow member charity who has already gone through a similar situation or signposting to appropriate advice/support in our sector.
At the same time though our online community platform members can share issues, solutions and experiences directly with other colleagues throughout the network in a secure environment.