This #TrusteesWeek, we spoke with Getting on Board's CEO, Penny Wilson, about what is stopping the charity sector moving forward with trustee diversity. According to Getting on Board's charity sector research, two-thirds of trustees are over 50, only 36% are women, only 8% are people of colour (against 14% of the population), 75% have an income above the national median, and we are doing poorly on representation from other protected characteristics like disability. So how can we ensur...
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This #TrusteesWeek, we spoke with Getting on Board's CEO, Penny Wilson, about what is stopping the charity sector moving forward with trustee diversity. According to Getting on Board's charity sector research, two-thirds of trustees are over 50, only 36% are women, only 8% are people of colour (against 14% of the population), 75% have an income above the national median, and we are doing poorly on representation from other protected characteristics like disability. So how can we ensur...
Conversations with Leaders: Mita Desai and Kira Lewis (The Young Trustees Movement)
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Conversations with Leaders: Mita Desai and Kira Lewis (The Young Trustees Movement)
This is a special Trustees’ Week episode of our Conversations with Leaders podcast. Our guests are Mita Desai, the Young Trustees Movement Programme Manager at The Social Change Agency and Kira Lewis, a War Studies student at King’s College London and trustee of two charities. In October, the Young Trustees Movement launched an ambitious pledge to double the number of trustees on charity boards aged 30 and under by 2024 in England and Wales. Mita is an experienced trustee. Her first board rol...
Peridot Partners: Conversations with Leaders
This #TrusteesWeek, we spoke with Getting on Board's CEO, Penny Wilson, about what is stopping the charity sector moving forward with trustee diversity. According to Getting on Board's charity sector research, two-thirds of trustees are over 50, only 36% are women, only 8% are people of colour (against 14% of the population), 75% have an income above the national median, and we are doing poorly on representation from other protected characteristics like disability. So how can we ensur...
