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GRC Event 2020Results of Questionnaire Responses

If you are not compliant what is your biggest barrier to becoming compliant?

• We had completed the The Wheel's Governance Code assessment and are/were compliant under that but are yet to review the new Governance Code issued by Companies Regulatory Authority (CRA). We have until end 2020 to review under the revised Code of Governance.

• We are on the path to compliance next month, biggest barrier is trustee time and understanding, and capacity in the office

• Our organisation had embarked on a journey to implement the voluntary governance code that had been developed by the sector before the Charities Governance code. So we are currently redirecting effort from the previous code to the Charities Governance code

• Time to implement actions - all minor

• Lack of expertise and time among the executive

What is your number 1 challenge in this area and have you been able to allocate funding for Strategic Planning Training/Consultancy?

• Lack of consistency with the Board, turn over of directors• Funding Issue• Recent Board re-structure (am implementing changes that take time to

bed down)• Creating a robust evaluation/ benchmarking framework• Our new three year strategy is understood by the Senior Mgt team, who

developed most of it, however I don't think this level of understanding is as deep below this level in our organisation.

• Funding the strategic plan. Funding was allocated in 2019 to develop the new strategic plan.

• We have an annual board/team strategy day and use an external facilitator.

• Measuring against objectives• Capacity and time, no.• Lack of time and funding

What is your number 1 challenge in this area and have you been able to allocate funding for Strategic Planning Training/Consultancy?

• Biggest current challenge is how to approach next Strategic Plan (2021-2025) with limited resources.

• Difficult to mine appropriate data for information purposes

• Buy in at board level and from staff

• No funding available

• We are a very small team

• Change in priorities over the lifetime of the three year plan. did have some training in 2014 to develop monitoring and evaluation framework and continue to use this learning

• Having the relevant expertise available to us at Board level

• Prioritising the goals - funding has been set aside

• We have funding support & consultancy this year for our new Strategy Planning. Compliance has been time-consuming and costly, and unfortunately still takes up time at board level.

• We do not have funding for this and at times is it a gap from a management level

What are the biggest risks facing your organisation?• Team/ staff risk, Funding, Reputational

• As part of our risk assessment we identified these that would have most impact: Failure to deliver the Festival programme and impact on brand, Budget overruns and reduced funding, failure to comply with legal and regulatory requirements.

• lack of funding / funding cuts

• Economy and environment

• Funding security

What are the biggest risks facing your organisation?• Suitability of all board members

• European reporting

• Have just started compiling our risk register, but quality of service delivery, over reliance on the Regional Manager are major risks

• Financial

• Financial resilience (to shocks incl. legal claims), lack of volunteers

• Government matching funding

• Reputational, funding and recruitment and people management

What are the biggest risks facing your organisation?

• Lack of marketing/promotion inhibits bringing in new business, poor relationship with potential key funder, lack of suitable building

• Late/Delayed Funding and IT Infrastructure

• Staffing, poor MI on which to make decisions

• reduction in funding

• Loss of key staff

• funding cuts from the HSE, staff absenteeism due to work related stress or injury, non compliance with regulations,

• Succession planning, membership drop off and over reliance on gov funding

What are the biggest risks facing your organisation?• Reduction in funding

• Reductions in income from main funder. Pay disparity with HSE pay scales making staff retention a problem. Increased Non-Pay costs e.g. insurance, transport etc.- no funding increases from main funder to offset Mandatory pensions - currently operate an opt in approach Challenges to our commercial division which operates in the retail sector

• Lack of funding would close us down. I am relatively new to the Charity and am still in the learning process.

• Loss of staff (full employment/competitive environment), compliance with GDPR and with Safeguarding legislation)

• Funding and staffing issues

What single change to the Voluntary sector do you think would have the biggest impact?• Grant's toward membership & buildings

• Sustainable funding for front line services

• Cash flow reporting (lack of in-house experience)

• Evidence based impact measurement

• If all private sector businesses/ organisations had some kind of CSR programme and contributed in a monetary way, or with volunteering a percentage of their time/ resources to the Voluntary sector.

• Reduce the complexity of Governance for small organisations.

• stop cutting funds

• Streamlining of reporting.

• The level of oversight and reporting is becoming too much for small organisations

What single change to the Voluntary sector do you think would have the biggest impact?• Resourcing of governance!

• Fund raising restrictions

• hard to say

• The burden of reporting to various regulators when there is very limited funding for administration work.

• Better supports, less paperwork

• Multi-annual funding, more reliable funding streams

• Pay parity with the HSE consolidated payscales

• Protection of their exposure to liability when volunteering - the compliance and governance has become more onerous on them - wider access to relevant training.

• Improvement of salary scales

If you woke up tomorrow and your work-life was noticeably improved what is the first thing you will notice has changed?

• Homeworking

• Access to software.

• That there is some delegation of responsibility from Regional Manager to support staff. Currently there is a lack of support for the RM role. Also if the Board were more well versed in their own governance requirements

• Less Stress!

• Probably, increased sleep and less worry.

• Improvement in my wellbeing

• More freedom to develop new ideas for ways of working in my organisation.

If you woke up tomorrow and your work-life was noticeably improved what is the first thing you will notice has changed?

• All of the systems, processes and policies are in place to help the organisation operate to the highest standard and to achieve our impact.

• I'd be able to work more efficiently.

• security of funding

• more free time

• More flexibility in timings.

• I might get better sleep

• Less on my to-do list that has been there for more than a month!

• Less tired

If you woke up tomorrow and your work-life was noticeably improved what is the first thing you will notice has changed?

• I had won €100 million Euro millions jackpot

• I won the lottery

• all staff working honest days work and being visible on site when needed

• The level of stress has decreased.

• Adequate funding to cover budget deficits

• Ability to partake in more pastimes and evening activities.

• Could step back and be more strategic in our planning

If I knew then what I know now…

• Applying for Registration with CRA

• Compliance by design

• Board mix

• Strategy and risk hand in glove

• Clear vision and channel for funding