The Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 is being reviewed and your views are important to the Independent Review Panel (‘the Panel’).  The Panel invites you to attend a virtual community meeting to discuss charity regulation in Northern Ireland and to share your views on whether it could work better.  This will include short presentations from the Independent Review Panel on the issues within the Review’s scope and we will seek your feedback through questions and answers, and small group discussions.

Objectives 

These one-hour seminars aim to inform you about the Review’s objectives, and provides opportunity for the Panel to hear and understand your views of charity regulation.  Receiving your feedback on what’s working and what’s not will be critical in informing the Panel’s recommendations to the Minister later this summer.

Speakers

The Independent Panel comprises Professor Oonagh Breen, University College Dublin, Dr Lesley Carroll, Prisoners’ Ombudsman NI and Mr Noel Lavery, former Permanent Secretary, most recently at the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland.  You can learn more about the speakers and read the Review’s Terms of Reference here.

Target Audience

The Panel will be conducting nine online seminars for various stakeholders including trustees, workers and advisors of charities of different sizes, as well as specific sessions for funders, solicitors, accountants, governance advisors and the general public.  Each of the meetings will be focusing on regulatory issues pertinent to these key stakeholders.

Please click on the title of the seminar which is most relevant to you in the table below which will take you to the registration page for that particular session.  Please note that all of these online sessions will be recorded, please see the Independent Review Panel’s Terms of Use for Participants attending these online engagement meetings.