Resources

Understand the risks and get the tools to better protect your charity from fraud and cybercrime.

Helpsheets

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Understanding the issues when tackling cross-border charity fraud

What are the steps you can take if your charity works across boarders?

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Managing Whistleblowers

Making sure your staff feel safe and comfortable coming forward if they spot fraud.

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Speaking to volunteers about charity fraud

Utilizing both your volunteers and staff could protect your organisations from the insider fraud threat.

Insights

Legacy Fraud: Where there’s a Will there’s a way!

Fraud is a risk to any charitable organization. Fraudsters will not discriminate in relation to the mission of the charity, the number of staff or the amount of funding received…

Fraud Risk in INGOs

Fraud is a risk to any charitable organization. Fraudsters will not discriminate in relation to the mission of the charity, the number of staff or the amount of funding received…

Protecting Your Charity’s Online Reputation

It could be said that as a charity, it’s more important to protect your reputation than for other kinds of organisation. All organisations rely to a degree on earning the trust of their customers, suppliers, partners and the market at large to flourish and grow, or indeed stay in business.

E-learning

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Cyber security for charities and small organisations

Learn about the steps you can take to keep your charity safe online with this free training course from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. It covers five key cybersecurity topics over five days.

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Staying safe online: top tips for staff

Ask your staff and volunteers to complete this 30 minute e-learning course on the basics of good cyber security. Created by the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, it’s free and easy-to-use.

Templates

A selection of templates which can be tailored to the needs of your charity.

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Fraud Risk Assessment Template

This simple risk assessment template is designed to help you take the first steps in understanding the risks that your organisation faces.

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Anti-fraud policies: example number 3

This anti-fraud policy example is designed to help your organisation craft it’s own effective policy documents.

Case studies

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Creating a counter-fraud function (British Council)

In 2016 the British Council established a counter-fraud function to improve fraud awareness and create a culture of reporting across 115 countries. Learn more about the benefits of their approach in this case study.

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Improving financial controls (Colchester Food Bank)

A review of internal financial controls by Colchester Food Bank resulted in several low-cost improvements to safeguard and expand the food bank’s funding. Learn more about the benefits of their approach in this case study.

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Grant fraud (example 1)

A grant-holder discovered systematic fraud carried out by staff in one of its partner organisations and reported it to the funder. This ultimately deprived the local community of much-needed support to improve the quality of life of people affected by HIV. Learn more about what happened and what was changed as a result.

Research

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Charity fraud in the pandemic

This report highlights the main findings from a survey carried out by the Fraud Advisory Panel and BDO LLP in September 2021 to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on fraud within the charity sector.