Future meeting(s)

The meeting on 31 July covered Data Protection and IT Security and is clearly a major concern for charities of all sizes. This was evidenced through the level of interest displayed by the delegates at our seminar at the London office of ICSA (to whom go our thanks for providing the facility). Speakers were drawn from a number of charities and specialist service providers so as to provide a useful and balanced agenda. It is quite likely that the subject will be repeated.

Next meeting: 23 October

Venues ( not assigned to dates) - Manchester ( or Liverpool), Birmingham, Southampton, Glasgow (or Edinburgh)

Group contact details

Chairman - Oliver Boyle at oliver.boyle@thomasmiller.com

We are currently recruiting members so if you are interested in joining us, or simply would like to find out more about what we are doing, please contact Oliver Boyle at oliver.boyle@thomasmiller.com

As with all IRM Special Interest Groups, there is no charge to attend and meetings are open to all – members and non-members alike.

Group aims & objectives

As anyone working for a large charity will know, the SORP 2000 introduced a requirement for trustees to state, in their charity’s annual report, that: "..the major risks to which the charity is exposed, as identified by the trustees, have been reviewed and systems have been established to mitigate those risks."

The Charity Commission also recommends that all charities large or small take risk management into account as best practice.  With circa 90% of the 180,000 charities registered in the UK earning less than £10,000 a year, there are a lot of small charities out that don’t have the resources to put in place complicated risk management programmes.

Risk management may sound like management speak but it is really a very simple concept: work out what you are aiming to do, identify the risks affecting your goals and then consider what, if anything, you need to do about them in order of biggest first.  Every charity has risks and our aim is to try and put together straight forward, accessible advice for the sector and to highlight the positive contribution that effective, appropriate risk management can make to a charity.  This advice will be put together using the wealth of experience and knowledge that the members of the Group possess.  Our members include people from charities, organisations that support charities and risk management consultancies.

Past meetings