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Charities and voluntary organisations

Know your risks and how to manage them

Charities, voluntary and community organisation are probably the UK’s most diverse sector. From frontline services to research, international aid to grant making, they cover a huge variety of bases.

With funding constraints and rising user demand, risk management can inevitably become low priority, both operationally and strategically.

Our approach to risk management is what’s known as ‘enterprise wide’. That means we work for organisations of all types and sizes. We also encourage proportionality.

This helps you put the relevant level of resource into identifying your risks and managing them, without unnecessary ‘gold plating’.

For more information contact Victoria Robinson:

+44 (0) 20 7709 9808

victoria.robinson@theirm.org

Benefits for charity staff

Charities benefit from a significantly reduced IRM membership rate plus waived joining fee.

Charities also benefit from 10% off member rates for all our training courses. Plus, if more than one person from a charity books, the discount rises to 15%.

See all courses.

Charities Special Interest Group (SIG)

Run by IRM members working for charities or with the sector, the Charities SIG meets monthly online to develop campaigns and events for the charity and voluntary sector.

Find out more about the Charities SIG

The SIG has now produced a Setting Risk Appetite flyer and supplementary booklet for all to use:

Knowing whether you are ‘Getting Better’ is a useful thing to do and the SIG’s flyer and maturity framework will have you thinking about where your charity is up to in the risk management maturity journey:

We would like to acknowledge the following people for providing assistance/sources of information for this work:

National Audit Office – managing risks in government
HM Treasury – Risk Management assessment framework
Turning risk into results – Ernst &Young
IRM risk culture consultation documents
Risk SIG – presentation from 2004
Managing risk in charities – CFDG & Cass business school
The IACCM Business Risk Management Maturity Model (2003), available at http://risk-doctor.com/pdf-files/brm1202.pdf
Dr David Hillson, The Risk Doctor – “Towards a Risk Maturity Model” (1997), available at http://risk-doctor.com/pdf-files/rmm-mar97.pdf