NISF LINKS UP WITH O'REILLY STEWART SOLICITORS
The Northern Ireland Sports Forum is proud to welcome O’Reilly Stewart Solicitors, one of the leading commercial law firms in Northern Ireland, as our new Partner.
The firm, which has recently moved to new state of the art offices in May Street, has six Partners and fifteen Solicitors specialising in all areas of law.
O’Reilly Stewart has experience in dealing with sports law, corporate governance, employment, licensing and child protection matters. The principle point of contact is Linus Murray, Partner in the Commercial Department – email: linus.murray@oreillystewart.com tel: 028 9032 1000
The Northern Ireland Sports Forum has teamed up with O’Reilly Stewart in order to provide our members with the best possible advice on best practice in the areas of governance, HR and Child Protection.
To find out more please visit http://www.oreillystewart.com
SAFEGUARDING VULNERABLE GROUPS UPDATE
Following on from an introduction to Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups legislation hosted by NISF and NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit and delivered by the VDA, Sport NI held a follow up event for Governing Bodies.
This event aimed to inform attendees as to some of the more specific parts of the legislation and the likely impact of this legislation and what that means for Governing Bodies.
To view the presentation please click here.
Representatives from the ISA implementation team and Paul Stephenson from the NSPCC Child Protection in Sport Unit are hoping to compile a number of F.A.Q.s for GBs which they will make available.
RECESSION TOOLKIT
NICVA has launched an online recession toolkit to help voluntary and community organisations prepare for the economic downturn. This toolkit comes on the back of a successful 'Coping with the Recession' conference, which was attended by over 100 different organisations from the sector.
The conference set out how the recession was likely to impact on the sector in Northern Ireland and outlined some of the key issues we all need to be thinking about.
Philip McDonagh, chief economist at PWC, described the recession as "a kind of paralysis of the economy, a freeze of activity", creating a number of highly vulnerable areas including debt issues, joblessness, older people and finally social capital. Philip also noted that the economy will recover and afterwards the landscape will be different, so it is important to prepare for the future.
Bruce Robinson, Head of NICS, highlighted that the recession will challenge all of us to make difficult decisions, and this will call for strong leadership. He encouraged organis! ations to look at costs, systems, collaboration, strengths and weaknesses, finance and income generation.
Ian Oakley-Smith, PWC, discussed in more detail some of the key findings of the 'Managing in a Downturn' report, published in November 2008.
NICVA is hosting a further recession conference event in Derry, in partnership with North West Community Network, on Thursday 30 April 2009.
Conference presentations and booking information for the Derry event are available at www.nicva.org/index.cfm/section/news/key/RecessionConferenceUpdate010409.
