Insurance conundrum a big issue for voluntary organisations

Though voluntary bodies now have better protection against claims, their insurance costs are still rising, writes Tim O’Connor.

Volunteer bodies are feeling the pinch. Demands never go down, time and funding never go up, and insurance costs are on the up for them.

As this paper reported last week, Deirdre Garvey, chief executive of The Wheel, the umbrella organisation for voluntary bodies, said in advance of the National Charity Summit that “something impacting people in charities would be the really high levels of cost of insurance”.