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  • Posted: 02 Jan 2026

Credit Union NED Governance Training

10 November - 5 January

05
Jan
2026

  • Calender-Icon Time: 18:00 - 19:00
  • Location-Icon Location: Online
  • Admin-Icon Organised By: BSA Events
  • Currency-Icon Free to attend (BSA Credit Union Members only)

This brand new free-to-attend training programme, held over six online evening sessions, is designed to help Credit Union NEDs better understand the context of their NED role.


It serves the same purpose for anyone aspiring to be a NED or starting out in that role. The sessions are discussion based with presentations used only as short tutorials.

Delegates need have no prior knowledge of finance or the financial services sector. In the same way prior knowledge of risk management or strategy setting is not necessary.

The course will be covered in six online evening sessions:
 

1.   Strategy, Purpose and Culture  Monday, 10 November
     
2.   Risk Management and Controls
Risk Culture
Monday, 17 November
     
3.   Leadership, Culture and controls
Communication Upwards, why this is so important
Monday, 1 December
     
4.   Decision Making 
Incentives
Monday, 8 December
     
5.   Directors and their behaviour Monday, 15 December
     
6. Capital and liquidity - what it is and how the regulators look at it
Corporate Governance Design versus effectiveness

Monday, 5 January
(originally scheduled to take
place on 3 November)


Timings:
18:00 - 19:00
Each session will comprise of two 10-15 minute presentations with two 10-15 minutes of discussion.

The sessions are open to NEDs from BSA Credit Union Members only

Event Summary

  • Monday, 5 January 2026
  • 18:00 - 19:00
  • events@bsa.org.uk
  • Free to attend (BSA Credit Union Members only)

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