Identifying and Managing Conflicts of Interest for your Charity or Community Group

As a trustee of a small charity or management committee of a community group you must make decisions based only on what is in your charities best interests. This is one of your legal duties. A conflict of interest is when what is in the charity’s best interest conflicts with, or may conflict with:

• your personal interests, or
• the interests of people or organisations connected to you

Conflicts of interest can happen in all types and sizes of charity. The important thing is that you know when conflicts may occur, identify when they do occur and manage them properly.

This session will help you to:

• identify conflicts of interest,
• know how to reduce the likelihood of a conflict of interest taking place
• manage conflicts of interests when they happen
• consequences of not managing conflicts of interest

We will look at examples and ways to avoid and manage conflicts of interest.

This session is aimed at trustees of small charities and management committees of voluntary/community groups, particularly those new to their role, or who want to develop their knowledge and skills, or who are looking to become a trustee or management committee member.

This course is free to small and emerging not-for-profit voluntary/community/faith groups supporting communities in Leeds (as it is subsidised by Leeds City Council and would usually cost £70.00). If you would like to attend but don’t fit this criteria you will need to pay the full fee.