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UK report shows trustees matter

New Philanthropy Capital,

In a recent report New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), UK says that 95% of people in the United Kingdom are unaware that they can support a charity by becoming a trustee, and that this helps explain why nearly half of charities have vacancies on their boards.

The organisation highlights a number of improvements that could help to strengthen trusteeship, including:

• more action on recruitment from charities, funders and government, to build people’s interest in trusteeship as a way of supporting charities and to increase the diversity of boards;
• better support once boards are established, such as more thorough inductions for new trustees and increased opportunities for trustees to learn from each other;
• setting up a body responsible for trusteeship, which could co-ordinate efforts to improve standards, put information about charity governance in one accessible place, and encourage networking; and
• a stronger focus on boards evaluating their own performance (particularly those of large organisations).

The free report is available at: www.philanthropycapital.org/download/default.aspx?id=994 (Requires registration).

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