Know How Non Profit (an offshoot of NCVO) Provides various guidance to ensure your organisation stays within the law.
Insurance & Risk Resources & Toolkits
Getting to groups with insurance and risk is essential for the sound management of any organisation. Understanding how to protect your organisation from harm, as well as how failure to do so can result in legal problems - for both the organisation and the trustees and staff - is absolutely essential for any voluntary and communtiy organisation, small or large. The following guidance and toolkits have been put together to help you understand what you need to know about insurance and risk and how to protect your organisation from wrong-doing.
Kingston Smith: Charities Risk Toolkit
Kingston Smith (an audit and accountancy firm) have produced this free toolkit for charities to help them develop an effective risk management framework.
Charity Commission Guidance: Charity money, tax and accounts
The following information is taken from the Charity Commission website and provides detailed information about charity money, tax and accounts. The guidance ranges from basic introductory guides through to accounting and reporting standards, gift aid, pensions, reserves and endowment along with various technical guidance, research and analysis. You can also sign up to receive email updates regarding any changed to content as the guidance is reviewed.
Charity Commission Guidance: Protect your Charity from Harm
The following information is taken from the Charity Commission website and provides detailed information about protecting your charity from harm, including insurance, managing risk and funding. You can also sign up to receive email updates regarding any changed to content as the guidance is reviewed.
Charity Commission Guidance: Governance, Trustee Role & Board
The following information is taken from the Charity Commission website and provides detailed guidance about trustee roles and the board. These guides are essential reading for current and would-be trustees to help understand the roles and responibilities of individual trustees and the board as a whole, especially around accountability and liability. You can also sign up to receive email updates regarding any changed to content as the guidance is reviewed.
Third Sector: Advice from Merkel Insurance on Risk
Advice on risk from Markel, a specialist insurance company working with charities, community groups, trustees, social enterprises and care providers.
