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AI Risk Register Template (Excel) for UK Charities
An Excel risk register pre-loaded with the AI risks that actually matter to UK charities — data, beneficiary, reputational, vendor, financial and legal. Likelihood × impact scoring, mitigation owners, review dates and a board-ready summary view, all built in.
- Pre-loaded with the 25+ risks charities really face
- Likelihood × impact scoring with conditional formatting
- Owners, mitigations and review dates per risk
- Board-ready summary tab — RAG status at a glance
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What's inside AI Risk Register Template
Data risks
Personal data leakage, training-data ingestion, retention failures, cross-border transfers — all pre-listed.
Beneficiary risks
Safeguarding-sensitive content, biased outputs, misidentification, accessibility failures.
Reputational risks
AI-generated communications going wrong, donor backlash, sector criticism — and how to mitigate.
Vendor risks
Tool deprecation, pricing changes, sub-processor changes, security incidents and DPA gaps.
Financial risks
Licence sprawl, hidden token costs, sunk-cost training, failed pilots and consultant lock-in.
Legal & regulatory
UK GDPR, ICO guidance, the EU AI Act (where it touches you), copyright and Charity Commission expectations.
Avoid the common pitfalls
No register at all
AI risks live in someone's head until something breaks. Then nobody can prove the charity was on top of it.
A copy of the corporate register
Generic enterprise AI risk lists miss safeguarding, beneficiary and small-charity capacity issues entirely.
Set and forget
AI tools change quarterly. A risk register reviewed annually is a risk register that's wrong for nine months of the year.
No mitigation owners
A risk without a named owner is a risk nobody is reducing.
How it works
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Download the Excel
Open in Excel or Google Sheets — all formatting and formulas come across.
Tailor and assign
Add or remove risks, assign owners and mitigation deadlines for your context.
Review quarterly
Use the summary tab to brief trustees — RAG status at a glance, no extra prep.
Want trustees confident, not nervous?
We pair the risk register with a board paper, a policy and a 90-day plan in our AI Foundations engagement — so trustees see risks alongside concrete mitigations, not as standalone scary numbers.
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