Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Charities

People depend on charities every day – for food, care, advice, shelter and support. This course shows charity leaders and operations teams how to keep critical services running when IT, premises, people or suppliers fail, and how to recover quickly from cyber attacks, outages and other disruption. It is practical, proportionate and built for small and medium charities.

Who this course is for: Chief executives, operations and service managers, IT leads, finance managers and trustees of small and medium charities. No technical knowledge needed.

Self-paced online learning. Earn a Certificate of Completion on passing.

What you will learn

• Explain business continuity and disaster recovery and why funders, insurers and regulators expect them
• Identify critical services and set realistic recovery targets
• Assess risks from IT failure, cyber attack, loss of premises, people and suppliers
• Write a short, usable business continuity plan and IT recovery plan
• Design backups and workarounds that actually work
• Test, maintain and report on continuity arrangements

Course modules

• Why continuity matters
• Understanding what matters most
• Writing the plans
• Backups and resilient IT
• Suppliers, people and communications
• Testing and improving