• Governance
  • Governance Health Check & Support
  • Strategic / Business Planning
  • Value for Money
  • Performance Management
  • Change Management
• Audit
  • Internal Audit
  • External Audit of Public Bodies
  • Compliance
  • Outsourcing
    • Whistleblowing Service
    • Risk Management
    • IT Security and Monitoring
  • Grant Certification & Project Assurance
• IT
  • IT Governance
  • IT Infrastructure
  • Business Systems
  • IT Audit
• Sectors
  • Public Sector
  • Third Sector
    • Muslim Faith Sector
  • GP Consortiums
  • Education Sector
  • Industry

Sectors

• Public Sector
• Third Sector
• Muslim Faith Sector
• GP Consortiums
• Education Sector
• Industry

Our breadth of knowledge and experience adds to our ability to offer a rounded and comprehensive service that draws upon prevailing good practice across all sectors.

Governance is high on the agenda in all sectors. Better governed organisations are more likely to succeed in achieving their goals, securing resources and meeting the needs of their beneficiaries. In the Third Sector, this has become a critical feature for funding bodies and donors when releasing funds to the third sector.

Good governance ensures that funds and resources are utilised effectively and efficiently. Donors need to be assured that those charged governance understand their responsibilities and can effectively discharge their explicit and implicit duties.

Good Governance Code

The Good Governance code for the voluntary and community sector, published in 2005 and successfully promoted by the National Governance Hub, sets out seven key principles of good governance. We can help implement these principles, so that trustees can satisfy many of their legal and moral obligations and duties relating to governance.

Added Benefits to You

• Effective leadership and control leading to better accountability and transparency.
• Efficient and effective use of resources.

These will result in the strengthening of trust.

Our Experience

Haines Watts is a long established, leading, professional services firm that already provides audit and accountancy services to more than 200 charities of varying sizes and complexities.

Our Third Sector advisory team has wide ranging and diverse experiences covering both not-for-profit and commercial organisations as well as local and central government. This breadth of knowledge and experience adds to our ability to offer a rounded and comprehensive service that draws upon prevailing good practice across all sectors.

As a firm we are committed to our corporate social responsibility, not just in words and intent but also through action. For example, our Third Sector Advisory lead Director ‘Nasir Rafiq’ works closely with a national voluntary body set up by HRH Prince Charles to help and support teenagers in inner-city areas of deprivation.

Areas where we can help

We would recommend that the scope of any governance review is initially informed by an overall assessment of your organisation’s prevailing arrangements to identify gaps. We can then work with the trustees and directors to address them.

The following are some of the services we can provide to support your organisation’s development:

• Risk and governance training;
• Strategic reviews & planning;
• Financial Management;
• Business process improvements;
• Support on external funding matters;
• Internal audit services ; and
• IT security.