Course description
Risk Management for Charity Trustees
Every charity faces risk.
The role of the trustees and senior management in understanding, responding to, and taking risks is a vital one for the success of a charity.
This workshop with Rachel Bowden is designed to improve understanding of risk and risk management, and to help trustees use risk information and insights to make informed decisions.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who should attend?
This workshop is designed for trustees. It is also suitable for those individuals who work closely with boards of trustees.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
This highly interactive workshop will help you develop your personal understanding of, and approach to:
- The role of the trustees in assessing the risks facing the charity
- Oversight of the risk management process and the organisation’s internal control systems
- Evaluating risk, focusing on opportunities as well as potential negatives
- Making informed decisions based on a sound understanding of risks and opportunities.
Training Course Content
Understanding risk
- Core concepts and jargon-busting
- Cause and consequence, describing risks
- Models for risk management
Trustees’ responsibilities
- Setting the risk appetite and culture of the charity
- Putting a sound risk and control framework in place
- Risk at the heart of informed decision-making
- Risk and charitable purpose
- Questions that trustees should be asking
Identifying and responding to risk
- Horizon and environmental scanning
- Top-down and bottom-up approaches to risk identification
- Understanding opportunities
- Where should trustees get involved?
- Roles and responsibilities
Assurance
- How do we know what we think we know?
- Introducing assurance and sources of assurance
- How much assurance is enough?
Reporting and information
- Interpreting risk registers and reports
- Turning risk data into management information
- Driving risk themes through the trustees’ board agenda
Course delivery details
A thoroughly enjoyable, very practical one-day session (9.30 – 4.30).
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