The cover theme of G&L July is trustee remuneration, and it follows on from a lively panel discussion on the subject at this year’s Trustee Exchange conference. Sentiment seems to have shifted slightly among some in the sector in favour of making it easier to pay trustees – although the Charity Commission and others continue to support the voluntary nature of trusteeship.
Our opening article reports views put forward by various panel members and delegates as to whether the stubborn lack of diversity in charity boardrooms could be tackled by a more flexible approach to remuneration, and in a follow-up article G&L editor Tania Mason outlines why she has changed her mind on the subject and now supports a much more permissive approach to paying trustees.
In the Charity Commission’s regular column, director of policy and communications Paul Latham summarises the recent update to guidance on trustee recruitment, while in Strategy & Operations we explore which diversity, equity and inclusion work to prioritise when budgets are tight.
In the first article in Policy & Public Affairs, criminal justice umbrella body Clinks commends David Gauke’s Independent Sentencing Review and urges the government not to waste this opportunity to transform the criminal justice system. In the second feature in this section, Quakers boss Paul Parker laments the Labour government’s draconian approach to protest and explains how different aspects of the suppression of dissent are connected, and how they affect civil society.
In People & Culture, n-compass CEO Joanna Solanki describes how the not-for-profit advocacy organisation came to be included in the UK’s Top 100 Medium-Sized Places to Work, and how its workplace culture is central to everything it does.
And in Board Matters, we have a summary of responses to a recent survey of the members of the Network of Women Chairs about their principal concerns, while in Core Functions, property expert Jonathan Vanstone-Walker examines the charity real estate landscape five years on from Covid and finds that the rush to permanent remote working may have been a little hasty.
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