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Charity Fraud Awareness Week wins award

During Charity Fraud Awareness Week (October 2018) we helped the sector become more resilient to fraud, and won a Government Award for the campaign.

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Government Counter Fraud Awards winner badge

The Charity Fraud Awareness Week campaign (22-26 October 2018) has won a Government Counter Fraud Award for outstanding international collaboration. Fraud Advisory Panel are joint partners for this campaign.

More than 40 charities, regulators, professional bodies and other stakeholders across the world worked together to help combat fraud targeted towards charities.

The Government Counter Fraud Awards celebrate the exceptional work being done to protect public funds in the UK. They are hosted by the Charted Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) Counter Fraud Centre, the National Crime Agency (NCA), Cabinet Office and City of London Police.

The next Charity Fraud Awareness Week will run from 21 to 25 October 2019.

All the resources produced for Charity Fraud Awareness Week remain available to help with protecting your charity against fraud.

Fraud week helpsheets

These short helpsheets cover fraud topics and have useful advice to protect your charity.

Fraud week e-learning videos

Cyber fraud

Cyber fraud (e-learning resource)

Due diligence and partnership working

Due diligence and partnership working (e-learning resource)

Creating a counter fraud framework

Creating a counter fraud framework

Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding best practice

Insider fraud

Combatting insider fraud

Whistleblowing

Whistleblowing to the regulators

Banking fraud

Moving money safely: an introduction to bank fraud

Updates to this page

Published 1 October 2018
Last updated 20 February 2019 + show all updates
  1. Charity Fraud Awareness Week has won a government counter fraud award. Use our helpsheets and e-learning videos to help protect your charity against fraud.

  2. Added a banking fraud e-learning video.

  3. Added new helpsheets and webinars related to charity fraud topics.

  4. Added a link to a fraud webinar on Friday 26 October.

  5. First published.