Cultural Governance Forum: A Networking Breakfast with the Charity Commission

Event details

08:30 - 10:30am, Wednesday 6 December 2023
Board Development Days
£25+VAT (Discounts available for members of the Cultural Governance Alliance)

8:30-10:30am | Wednesday 6 December 2023

An exclusive in-person networking & breakfast event for cultural sector leaders hosted at the British Library with Orlando Fraser KC, Chair, Charity Commission, in conversation with Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey OBE.

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About the day

Clore Leadership and the Cultural Governance Alliance present an exclusive autumn event: Cultural Governance Forum: A Networking Breakfast with the Charity Commission on Wednesday 6 December 2023 at the British Library Knowledge Centre.

We invite trustees and executive leaders from the cultural sector to join us for networking and breakfast at the British Library as we welcome Orlando Fraser KC, Chair of the Charity Commission, in conversation with Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey OBE, who will explore topical issues for cultural governance including:

Philanthropy – optimising current incentives and opportunities
Board/Trustee Accountability in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) environment
The Politics of Good Governance – effective charity governance in the context of political uncertainty
Restitution & Regulation – addressing contemporary cultural imperatives within existing charity frameworks

This marks a key opportunity to engage with arts and cultural governance peers in person and an exclusive chance to put your questions to the Chair of the Charity Commission in a Q&A led by Prue Skene CBE, Lead Governance Associate at Clore Leadership.

Speakers/Contributors

Orlando Fraser, Chair, Charity Commission
Orlando Fraser has been Chair of the Charity Commission since April 2022. He has been a commercial barrister for nearly 30 years, practising at 4 Stone Buildings. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2014. Previously he served on the board of the Charity Commission from 2013 to 2017. Orlando has also served on the Civil Justice Council and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations’ Advisory Council.
Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey
Lola Young been an independent Crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2004 and has founded and Co-Chairs All Party Parliamentary Groups on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion, and Sport, Modern Slavery and Human Rights. Lola is now Co-Chair of the Foundation for Future London, Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, and a Non-Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing and Futerra.
Prue Skene, Senior Governance Associate, Clore Leadership and Chair, Cardboard Citizens
Prue has had a long career in arts management and governance and currently chairs Cardboard Citizens, the theatre company that works with and for those experiencing homelessness, poverty and inequity. She is Lead Governance Associate at Clore Leadership and is co-author of the Practical Guide to governance in the arts.

Questions for the Charity Commission?

What would you like to ask the Chair of the Charity Commission based on your experience of the regulator? What critical questions about governance has your cultural organisation been grappling with? Is there more you’d like to understand about the Charity Commission’s role and its relationship with charitable bodies?

As this is a rare opportunity to engage directly with the Charity Commission, we know that there will be lots of you wanting to put questions to Orlando Fraser. For the best chance of having your questions fielded, please submit them to us in advance.

Send us your questions in advance to [email protected]

Tickets, Promotions and Offers

Tickets for the event must be purchased in advance at a cost of £25 + VAT.

Members of the Cultural Governance Alliance are eligible for a 20% discount on tickets until Friday 20 October 2023. Join as a member of the alliance here *

Organisations sending multiple delegates to the conference can buy a second ticket at half price. When booking on Eventbrite, click the ‘Enter promo code’ blue link in the left corner of the ticket window before selecting tickets and enter MULTIBUYCC to apply the 50% discount on the second ticket before purchasing. (A maximum of 2 tickets can be purchased per person).*

Refunds on customer cancellations
With regret, once your booking has been made and a place confirmed, we are not able to offer refunds. We are also not able to transfer bookings to other events for bookings made and subsequently cancelled by the customer.

*Discount codes cannot be applied retrospectively when tickets have been already purchased.

Event and Venue Accessibility

We are intending to provide British Sign Language (BSL) interpretation for this event. If you have any additional access requirements you need us to know about, please tell us in your ticket registration, or by emailing [email protected] and we will endeavour to accommodate these.

We are delighted to have the British Library as our Partner Venue as it is committed to offering a welcoming and accessible environment in which everyone can feel comfortable. They have an extensive range of Access Facilities and Services including BSL interpreted venue introduction, audio venue guides, sound enhancement options, lift information and access options for moving around the venue on arrival.

Read more about the venue’s accessibility here

Postponement or Cancellations by Clore Leadership/The Cultural Governance Alliance

Clore Leadership reserves the right to postpone or cancel an event if necessary. This will only be under exceptional circumstances and Clore Leadership will endeavour to provide as much notice as possible.