Comments on: Bermuda National Standards Accreditation

By: Mr. Spear Chukah

Mr. Spear Chukah — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:50:18 +0000

So…I’m pre approved?

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 00:18:34 +0000

A substantial amount of time and effort goes into attaining and maintaining BNSC accreditation, and while a step up from no accreditation whatosever, it completely ignores already implemented governance unless it suits the BNSC standards, putting organizations to significant work to create and maintain parallel and mostly irrelevant governance to satisfy BNSC. Despite the statements above, it has no international recognition, and the accrediting teams, while lovely people, do not have the breadth of experience necessary to add relevant insight to the organizations being accredited, which you would normally expect of an accreditation process within specific service fields in other parts of the world. Finally, the donor community do not seem to pay any notice of whether an organization is accredited or not, in responding to grant requests.

By: loquat tree

loquat tree — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:59:51 +0000

Accreditation while being an ideal can be incredibly costly and time consuming.
How much of the monies raised by these charities goes on administration for things such as accreditation?
In other countries the % of monies actually going to the people or animals or disadvantaged group is publicized.
In this economy charities and community groups are struggling for less $$ to go around as it is.