As businesses grow, expectations around information security, data protection, and compliance grow with them.

Clients, partners, regulators, and funders increasingly want more than reassurance. They want evidence. Evidence that risks are understood, responsibilities are clear, staff are trained, and appropriate controls are in place.

In many organisations, responsibility for this sits awkwardly between IT, operations, and leadership. It is often managed reactively, revisited only when an audit, client questionnaire, or renewal deadline looms.

Our Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) service exists to change that.

We bring defined ownership, documented controls, structured oversight, and ongoing review into a single, coherent governance system. The result is clarity for leadership, confidence for the board, and evidence that stands up to scrutiny.

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“Candidate and client data is at the heart of what we do – as a business we were keen to ensure that we protected this. Gather helped us take our cyber security to the next level, guiding us to achieve Cyber Essentials certification. It’s given us peace of mind, confidence in our compliance, and reassurance for everyone we deal with.”

Rebecca Dawkins

Director @ Buckingham Recruitment

What it does for you

Our GRC service helps you move from uncertainty to confidence.

Clarity and structure

Defined ownership, documented controls, and shared accountability for information security and compliance, rather than responsibility sitting informally within IT or operations.

Confidence when challenged

The ability to demonstrate good practice quickly and credibly to clients, partners, regulators, and auditors.

Reduced commercial friction

Faster, more consistent responses to due-diligence questionnaires, audits, tenders, and renewals.

Less internal overhead

A significant reduction in the time and admin involved in policies, training, reviews, and evidence gathering.

Proportionate assurance

Controls and oversight that are right-sized for your organisation. Not enterprise theatre. Not tick-box compliance.

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Trust Centre

Beyond internal assurance, our GRC service enables you to demonstrate trust externally through a secure, client-facing Trust Centre.

A Trust Centre is a secure space that allows you to share verified information about your security and compliance posture consistently and professionally, with less effort and greater control.

Your Trust Centre allows you to:

Share up-to-date information about your security and compliance posture
Provide a single, authoritative source of truth for due diligence
Control what information is shared, with whom, and when
Reduce repetitive back-and-forth with prospects, clients, and partners during due diligence
Accelerate sales cycles by removing friction from the trust-building stage

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What’s included

Our GRC service focuses on oversight, assurance, and evidence. It is designed to complement existing IT providers rather than replace them.

Independent oversight, practical support

Independent assurance aligned to recognised standards

Including Cyber Essentials Plus, providing credible third-party validation where required.

Information security awareness training

Including phishing simulations with auditable evidence of participation and outcomes.

Quarterly reviews and a board-level Risk & Compliance Report

Translating technical and operational risk into business context.

Ongoing consultancy and guidance

Working alongside internal teams and IT providers as your organisation and risk profile evolve.

A fully managed GRC platform, providing:

Policy and control mapping against recognised standards
Ongoing gap analysis and compliance tracking
An auditor-approved policy library
Centralised management of staff training, acknowledgements, and compliance status

A structured evidence library to support audits and due diligence
Integration with Microsoft 365 for visibility of users and assets
AI-assisted completion of security questionnaires

Built to scale with more complex requirements

The platform is flexible by design and can be tailored to support more advanced or sector-specific frameworks, including:

DORA
SOC 2
Client-mandated or industry-specific assurance requirements

Controls can be mapped once and reused across multiple standards, allowing you to:

Avoid duplicated effort
Progress from simpler certifications to more complex accreditations
Build a long-term, defensible compliance foundation rather than a series of one-off exercises

Why choose Gather

Governance and compliance only work when they’re grounded in reality.

At Gather, we take a practical, proportionate approach, focused on helping organisations demonstrate that they have taken appropriate steps to manage risk, rather than chasing perfection or unnecessary complexity.

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Clients choose us because:

We understand regulated environments

We work extensively with organisations operating in high-trust and regulated sectors, where credibility and evidence matter.

We think in risk, not just controls

Our focus is on what actually matters to your business, your clients, and your obligations — not generic checklists.

We work alongside your existing suppliers

Our GRC service is designed to complement IT providers and internal teams, not compete with them.

We speak business as well as security

We translate technical and operational detail into clear, defensible, board-level insight.

We stay with you

Compliance isn’t a one-off exercise. We provide ongoing oversight and support as expectations, risks, and your organisation change.

Gather strengthened what we already had, tightening the areas that mattered most and helped us achieve Cyber Essentials accreditation. Their skilled team quickly understands what you need and delivers solutions even outside standard hours when it’s really needed. We now feel we have a true IT partner who knows our business and supports our goals through smarter, more effective use of technology.

Ben Malik

Director @ Auxilium HR

Get in touch

If you’d like to understand whether our GRC service is appropriate for your organisation, we’re always happy to have an initial conversation.