16 November 2015
Uh-oh. I have been found out again. This time I have been found out for having a task force (da-da-da-OOPS) which is insufficiently Proper and Serious and too reliant on people just bumbling around hoping for the best. I must forthwith turn the task force (da-da-da-oh-do-I-have-to?) into a limited company or a registered charity or some such, with proper documents and proper people in charge, and a budget and a bank account and a board of directors and, oh, I don’t know, a water dispenser probably. Because otherwise, the world will fall in. I can imagine how this will go down with the rest of the task force, just when we'd got ourselves a name and a logo and we thought we were doing so well. The thing with IP Inclusive, as with many volunteer groups, is that it thrived on being insufficiently proper and serious. It was the Parent Teachers’ Association, the village drama group. It was we’re-all-in-this-together. It was make-do-and-mend. It was doing everything out of the goodness of your heart and on a shoestring, usually with a glass of wine in one hand and a slice of pizza in the other. There were no rules, no formalities. We did not have terms of reference or itemised deliverables. We did not budget, because we had no money. And things were not perfect, but they were good enough. We all knew roughly where we were going and we got some incredible stuff done. Amazingly, no one got hurt. But when you think how risky it was, working together like that from across the IP professions with nothing more tangible between us than trust and shared vision, well, all I can say is it is a good job someone at CIPA spotted the dangers before it was too late. Because now we can protect ourselves with layers of internal governance and authorisation procedures and audits, and never will we have to work with one another again without conducting a full risk assessment beforehand and a 360⁰ appraisal afterwards. Phew!
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