Risk Conference 2007

9:00 - 9:30

Registration and Tea and Coffee

9:30 - 9:45

Welcome by Chair
Melvin Coleman, FD, Amnesty International

9:45-10:30

Opening Plenary: Managing Risk - What should the FD be doing?
John Shaw, FD, Oxfam

Oxfam's Finance Director, John Shaw, shares a practical, "warts and all" overview of Oxfam's approach to risk management, including sharing his views on what works and what doesn't, and why, and what's missing.

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10:30-11:10

1A - Understanding Risk at Board Level, or What Questions should the Board be Asking
Paul Breckell, FD, RNID

We know that it is the Board of Trustees who ‘sign on the line’ in the annual report to say that they have considered the risks facing the organisation, but what should this mean in practice? In this session Paul Breckell, explores the issues around Trustees engagement with risk management and what questions they should be asking in order to meet their responsibilities.

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1B - CIMA Enterprise Governance
Gillian Lees, Technical Specialist, CIMA

Gillian will cover the findings of the CIMA/IFAC project on enterprise governance, in particular the importance for organisations of balancing conformance with performance in order to achieve long-term sustainable success. She will also introduce the CIMA Strategic ScorecardTM as an effective tool for helping boards to engage in strategy and will demonstrate how it applies to charities.

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11:10-11:30

Break

11:30-12:15

2A - Financing the True Cost of Risk
Peter Heap, Consultant, Ark Risk Consulting

What is your real cost of risk? This session looks at how to calculate the cost of risk and ways by which it can be financed by balance sheet or risk transfer.

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2B - ChildLine… to merge or not to merge?
Lynne Gregory, FD, NCVO

ChildLine and the NSPCC came together as one organisation in early 2006. This session will explore ChildLine’s decision making process leading up to the merger and demonstrate how identification and management of risk played a key part in the final outcome

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12:15-13:00

3A - Dealing with Risks in Reserves Policies
Charles Nall, Corporate Services Director, The Children’s Society

The purpose of reserves is reduce risks to current beneficiaries and to help provide assistance for future beneficiaries. Reserves can also create risks. This session explores what to watch for and offers suggestions on reserves policy.

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3B - Crisis Management
Betty McBride, Policy & Communications Director, British Heart Foundation

There’s a widely held myth that the Chinese character for "crisis" is a combination of the symbols for danger and opportunity. This presentation will explore the realities of managing through a crisis, using a range of case studies to identify common themes and come up with some best practice guidelines.

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13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:45

Plenary: Terrorism and Control
Neil Bennett, Operational Supervisor, National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit, Metropolitan Police.

Many charities feel that the risks relating to terrorist activity are very small and do not really impact on them, or that the controls they already have in place are adequate. This session will give some examples of how charities have been unwittingly caught up in terrorist activity and suggest some of the fairly straightforward controls you can put in place to reduce the risk.

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14:45-15:30

4A - Dealing with Risk in Contracts
Jo Coleman, Farrers

Managing and apportioning risk between a charity and its funders, commissioners, end-users and suppliers invariably falls to be dealt with by contract. But can a contract provide you with the certainty you are looking for and what are the common problems and areas of legal risk involved in contract? This session will consider the legal risk exposure, highlight the key issues to consider and suggest some practical ways to deal with those issues.

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4B - What are the New Risks facing Charities
Sarah Campbell, Ian Mathieson & Richard Weighell, PKF

The aim of the session is feeding back on our scanning of the risk horizon to flag up to the audience things that they should be aware of in updating their risk assessments and assessing their risk mitigations. The session will focus on threats and opportunities in three areas: the financial regime; government/charity commission policy; and the wider world.

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15:30-15.50

Break - Tea & Coffee

15.50-16.30

5A - Best Practice Audit & Risk Committee
Uday Thakar, Treasurer, Charity Trustee Network; David Taylor, Consultant, Grant Thornton and John Lavers, Director, Housing 21.

Audit committees have a responsibility for reviewing and developing a charity’s risk management framework. Independent membership of a committee by a charity finance director not only maintains best practice by bringing an external perspective it also offers invaluable opportunities to understand an organisation and develop strategic and leadership skills.

This workshop will explore the experience of independent members of audit committees, their contribution to best practice and their learning opportunities.

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5B -Embedding Risk – Making it Real
John Lewis, Internal Auditor, PDSA.

This session will cover how PDSA relates it's internal audit work to it's risk profile and how this relates to internal audit's role in providing good governance throughout the organisation. John will discuss not only major strategic risks but also the less critical day-to-day risks that impinge on the work of internal audit.

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16:30-17:10

Closing Plenary: Managing Change
Rev Mike Shaw, Adviser & Mary Bishop, CEO, Grooms Shaftesbury

In June 2007 John Grooms and The Shaftesbury Society merged to form a new charity Grooms-Shaftesbury, and established a close working partnership with John Grooms Housing Association. This session focuses on the realities of managing change and risk inherent in implementing a merger and partnership.

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17:10-17:15

Q & A
Closing words by Chair

17:15-18:30

Reception & Networking