# Trustees sourced for arts organisations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/02/10/trustees-sourced-arts-organisations/
- Published: 2005-02-10T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Arts & Business’ new initiative Gain, which matches people with arts organisations
to improve board member diversity, has matched seven people with arts organisations
and aims to develop 20 new trustee-arts organisation relationships by April 2005.

Gain was established by Arts & Business, The Greater London Authority, and the Arts
Council as a way of enabling a greater diversity of people on the board of mainstream
arts organisations, which at present are made up of 90% white middle class middle
aged men of British origin. In its first year Gain has focussed on recruiting and
placing trustees of BME background.

Colin Tweedy, Chief Executive of Arts & Business said: “We have matched BME trustees
on the basis of their skills and their love for art of which there is an abundance.”

Gain is centred on a group of London’s key arts organisations including The Photographers
Gallery, Booktrust, Tricycle Theatre, Spitalfields Festival. If the initiative is
successful it will expand to other regions after October 2005.

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