Why can't charities find the right trustees?
Howard Lake | 10 May 2001 | News
Finding good quality trustees is widely regarded as a difficult challenge for charities. But are charities themselves failing to attract them?
Finding good quality trustees is widely regarded as a difficult challenge for charities. But are charities themselves failing to attract them? Michael Byrne, an e-business consultant for charities, told UK Fundraising that his offers of becoming a trustee had been ignored by three of his charity clients. “I’m well educated,” he said, “in my early thirties and know the charities concerned very well; I fit the profile of people they should have at least one of as a trustee.”
Read Charities give volunteer trustees the cold shoulder by Patrick McCurry at SocietyGuardian.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.