In late July 2026, Beacon CRM — a cloud fundraising platform used by more than 1,500 UK charities — discovered that someone had used compromised credentials to access copies of its customer database backups.
In June 2026, users from around the UK met for CiviBRM, a user focussed event in Birmingham.
The programme was deliberately expansive, reflecting the many different ways people use CiviCRM. We heard from organisations running advice services, campaigning and fundraising, managing events, supporting volunteers and building community savings clubs.
There has been a security release for CiviCRM. Upgrades are available for:
At our next CiviCRM Scotland Meetup, Aidan Saunders, Director at Squiffle Consulting, will introduce the essentials of managing duplicate Contacts in CiviCRM. Learn how to use Dedupe Rules and Contact Merging to identify, review and clean up duplicate records, helping you maintain a more accurate and reliable CiviCRM Contact database.
Almost every question I get asked about Cases and Grants turns out to be a question about time. Which of these have been open longest? What's overlapping? What's due next, and how much of it lands in the same month?
Recently I had the chance to attend CiviCamp Toronto, and I was reminded of the power of getting our community together in person. This inspired me to pitch in and try to reboot the CiviDay NYC events that we used to organize here in New York.
I will need your help!
Semper IT and Blackfly Solutions are scaling back involvement in the CiviCRM iATS Payments Extension
If you've opened up CiviCRM and think, “Where do I go to find that?” you are not alone.
In recent user feedback, people told us:
The interface is dated compared to other CRM products.
CiviCRM Extended Security Release (ESR) has slowly grown in popularity as a very stable version of CiviCRM that isn’t too far removed from many of the great features that have shown up in the latest stable version, namely SearchKit, FormBuilder, and the River framework.
For organizations that want to avoid the monthly upgrade process, CiviCRM ESR is a good potential option.
CiviCRM multisite allows separate sites to access the same CiviCRM database with segmented data access, with each site having its own website. Great for chapter, regional, or multi-brand organizations that need some shared infrastructure while still separating parts of their configuration or access.
