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Charities Special Interest Group

 

Future meeting(s)

 

Date 15 January 2008
Time 18:00
Format Informal group meeting for familiarisation and to discuss general matters - all welcome
Location IRM, 6 Lloyd's Avenue, London EC3N 3AX
Cost FREE
Booking Please e-mail group secretary (details below) if you wish to attend
   
Date 22 January 2008
Time 13:30 to 18:00
Topic Charity HR Issues
Format Half day seminar - presentations and debate
Location ICSA , 16 Park Crescent, London, W1V 1AH
Cost FREE
Details

Speakers: George Cameron (IRM), Mark Owen (Peninsula Business Services), Sara McKenna (Guide Dogs for the Blind), Shirley Scott (Charity Consultant).

Click here for more information.

Please e-mail group secretary (details below) if you have any questions about this event.

Booking Click here to book

Other proposed dates and venues for hosting some regional events in 2008

Thursdays - 21 February, 6 March, 25 September (Glasgow or Edinburgh), 23 October.

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

Charity Bank and the Thomas Miller Group have been running a calendar of regional risk management seminars throughout 2007. Speakers from both organisations are ready to support a 2008 programme of events for the IRM on the above.


Group contact details

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

Secretary - Godwin Chimutanda at gchimutanda@icsa.co.uk

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

Date 12 July 2007 Article - Third Sector, July Edition
     
Date 30 April 2007 Minutes (pdf - 14kb)
     
Date 22 January 2007 Minutes (pdf - 122kb)
     
Date 7 November 2006 Minutes (pdf - 10.9Kb)
     
Date 3 October 2006 Minutes (pdf - 80Kb)
     
Date 23 August 2006

Minutes from inaugural meeting

(pdf - 54.8Kb)