# Why can't charities find the right trustees?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/05/10/why-can039t-charities-find-right-trustees/
- Published: 2001-05-10T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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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