Active risk management

• How confident are you about your charity's freedom from bullying, harassment, discrimination and other inappropriate behaviours?
• Are you able to demonstrate that you have taken appropriate steps to safeguard your stakeholders?
• Do you truly know whether your staff, volunteers and other stakeholders view your charity as a safe environment?

Taking these risks seriously Sexual harassment, inappropriate gender-based behaviour, bullying, racial and gender discrimination are all hot topics for charities today. Times have changed. Tolerance of inappropriate sexual behaviour, discrimination and abuse of power is now rightly at zero. But their occurrence, even within charities, is remorseless. Such incidents attract wide publicity. This behaviour causes serious harm. Its victims are traumatised. Charity morale suffers. The risks are high. Ignoring these risks is not a good option for charity trustees. Making that crystal clear within your charity These Zero Tolerance issues are highly sensitive. Objective evaluation of their risk-level within your own charity is very difficult. I can help you gain a clearer picture. If you engage me to run a Zero Tolerance Survey among your charity's stakeholders I will:

• Help you cut through the barriers to gaining authentic feedback from your stakeholders
• Enable you to access all the data you need to manage your charity's Zero Tolerance risks
• Show your stakeholders that you care, and that ensuring a safe environment is important to you

What can I offer? When I run a Zero Tolerance Survey for you:

• It's cost-effective, efficient and reliable for your charity
• It's entirely voluntary and confidential for your stakeholders
• You can make it available to available to everyone within your charity community - your trustees, staff, volunteers, stakeholders, donors, beneficiaries
• Optionally I can also provide a confidential Zero Tolerance help-line to your stakeholders, direct to me, for the duration of the process

Wise action is impossible without knowledge After I run a Zero Tolerance Survey for you, I will provide you with:

• Statistical data on equality, diversity, non-discrimination and inclusion in your charity
• Levels of any inappropriate behaviours within your charity
• Your respondents' confidence in your charity's complaints  procedure and how to get help
• Your charity's demographics
• An overview of concerns your stakeholders would like to raise

Protecting your charity, your trustees and your stakeholders going forward And I will suggeste practical, real-world steps your charity can take to protect itself going forward:

• A heads up on areas where your trutees may be exposed in relation to their legal responsibilities
• My key recommendations for your charity's risk management and optmised governance
• Support with implementing any difficult changes

Get in touch I am here to help. To commission a survey, or for advice on any Zero Tolerance issue, contact me on 07914 005 327 or inquiries@geoffreyhand.co.uk