Talk:Declarations of Interest

COI by volunteers

We also have the situation where volunteers may have conflicts of interests with the activities that they undertake, or propose to undertake. This can be particularly difficult to manage where those volunteers are being given funding by WMUK to support their activities. I am not aware of the availability of guidance in this sort of situation - I would welcome comments on how to best manage these COI. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:03, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Illustrative cases might be helpful to understand what you are aiming to define. By the way, I would stick to "Declarations" rather than "Conflict" to emphasis the intention is positive declarations rather than assuming that activities or possibly payments would be in conflict with the charity's mission. Thanks --92.20.56.83 22:42, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

I think a different page for volunteers is a good idea. I think this one is currently giving either too much (Mike) or too little (Roger, prob Doug) information. What I would expect to see is a full list of employers, other directorships, some memberships, significant shareholdings and so on, but no comments or analysis. Like the PDF one linked here. But we can discuss. Johnbod (talk) 01:33, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Putting pressure on volunteers to make public declarations of their interests would be an odd and potentially damaging process. There may be reasons for such interests to be known by trustees or the Chief Executive, for example during any procurement process where a particular volunteer was influencing the final decision, though I would expect this to remain confidential unless the volunteer is comfortable about making a public statement and the trustees assess it as significant. Irrelevant, tangential or insignificant declarations by anyone should be avoided. I agree, worth discussing and I would caution against any volunteer rushing to make public declarations until the consequences are carefully thought through. --Fæ (talk) 11:02, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Nil declarations

I have removed expressions of "none" from this document. Trustees have a duty to declare any interest which may result in conflict of loyalties with the charity, there is no duty to make nil declarations. Please avoid adding implicit statements of process. If we need a process defined for declarations, either generally or in relation actively to manage interests for an individual trustee or staff member, then this should be raised with the board. --Fæ (talk) 10:35, 5 July 2012 (UTC)