Insurance in the Community Sector

PPNs across Ireland have been hearing about the growing financial burden that rising insurance is having on the work of community groups and activities across the country. In order to respond on your behalf, we need to know the facts and have evidence about how this is affecting your work. The PPN network will present this information at national platforms on your behalf.

This survey is anonymous though excerpts from what you tell us will be shared to help inform a national response around insurance issues.

* This survey is intended to give PPNs an insight into the impact of rising insurance costs on the average group in the community sector. Please do not complete this form if you are a private enterprise or your group engages in risky activities that would naturally incur high insurance costs as this will skew the outcome.


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* 1. Which PPN do you belong to?

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* 2. What is the main cause of your group

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* 3. Has the insurance premium for your community group increased over the last 3 years?

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* 4. Can you give us an estimate of the percentage increase

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* 5. Can you give us an estimate of the level of insurance your group pays per year

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* 6. Here are some things other community group have said about the impact of increasing insurance on their group and the group's activities. How much would you agree or disagree that each of these statements would apply to your group.

  Disagree Strongly Disagree Slightly Neither agree nor disagree Agree Slightly Agree Strongly
We have had to reduce the number and range of activities that our group can undertake
Our group is in danger of stopping altogether if insurance costs continue to rise
We would be running more events and activities and benefiting our community better if insurance costs had not risen
We are very concerned at how we will fund these rising insurance costs going forward
It is very hard to find funding streams that will cover insurance costs

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* 7. Can you give us any specific examples as to how your group and it's core activities have been affected by rising insurance costs and if this has impacted your local community.

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* 8. Have you ever undertaken a risk assessment of your organisation to try and reduce insurance costs?

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* 9. If no, would you be interested in undertaking training to support you to conduct a risk assessment?

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* 10. Do you think the government is doing enough to try and tackle rising insurance costs?

If you could give us a few quick details to help us understand your group better, this will help to ensure we are presenting an accurate position of the concerns in the community sector

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* 11. Does your group have a premises included in your insurance (ie a community centre, hall etc)?

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* 12. Does your group/organisation have any paid employees?

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* 13. How many members does your group have?

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* 14. Is your group a member of a national umbrella group?

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