Risk Management

Overview

Risk management encompasses every aspect of an organisation's activities, ranging from day to day operations (IT, personnel, property etc), finance and legal obligations to strategic development such as governance and disaster recovery.

Please note that Health and Safety and Protection of Vulnerable Clients have their own sections within the Good Practice Bank.

Articles

• Will Your Business Survive an Emergency? - Bexley Council article (external link)
• Insurance and Risk Management - VolResource Briefing (external link)
• Risk Management for Charities - VAN Briefing (external link)
• Managing Risk - WCVA Information Sheet (external link)
• Volunteer Greeters - Professional Security Magazine (external link)
• How to Explore 'Risk' - Voluntary Matters 3
• Management Standards for Work-Related Stress - HSE
• Living with Risk: Risk Management and Insurance Advice for the Voluntary and Community Sector - Association of British Insurers
• SWOT Analysis - MindTools
• Risk and Crisis Management in the Events Industry - Insurex Expo-Sure presentation

Examples

(Pending permission from some sources and awaiting your contributions)

Links

• Volunteering and Risk Management VE project
  
• Nonprofit Risk Management Center
  http://www.nonprofitrisk.org/
• No Surprises Volunteer Risk Management Tutorial
  http://nonprofitrisk.org/tutorials/tutorials.htm
  
• Charity Commission guidance on Charities and Risk Management
  http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/investigations/charrisk.asp
• The Institute of Risk Management
  http://www.theirm.org/
• Companies House
  http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Publications

Free publications

• Volunteers and the Law - Volunteering England

Priced publications

• Branch Networks in the 21st Century - Volunteering England
• Risk Management: a mini guide - Volunteering England
• Better Safe...Risk Management in Volunteer Programs & Community Service - Linda Graff & Associates Inc

Share your experiences!

The Good Practice Bank is growing steadily as more information is added to it. An important feature of the Bank is allowing users to share their documents with other volunteering organisations. We are particularly interested in receiving example policies or documents that you are happy to share with others. If we use your contribution, you could win a book on volunteering from our regular prize draw.

• If your organisation has an example to contribute, please use our simple form to submit it.
• Or, please send us an email or telephone 0800 028 3304 (phone and textphone)