https://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/14/uk-government-blasts-charities-white/
Charities must do more to ensure boards āreflect the communities they serveā, the charity watchdog has warned, after a report found the vast majority of trustees are white.
The Charity Commission urged charities to encourage applications from women, young people, and ethnic minorities, presenting research which revealed that 92 per cent of trustees are white and more than half are retired.
āThere is a danger that charity trustee boards might become myopic in their views,ā said the report, which was commissioned by the Office for Civil Society and the Charity Commission.
According to the survey of 3,500 trustees in England and Wales, men outnumber women by two to one on charitiesā boards, with the average age between 55 and 64.
āTrustees make a vital contribution to our society and communities up and down the country rely on their voluntary efforts,ā said Helen Stephenson, chief executive of the Charity Commission.
But she warned charities must take action to āpromote diverse trusteeshipā, stating: āTrustees do not reflect the communities charities serve.
āCharities are therefore at risk of missing out on the widest range of skills, experience and perspective at board level,ā she added, claiming that the underrepresentation of certain demographics āalso puts charities at risk by creating a culture of āgroup thinkā where decision making can go unchallenged.ā
In a piece analysing the report, Civil Society Media editor David Ainsworth remarked that while āat first glance, it looks self-evidently true that diversity is a huge problem for charity boardsā, the issue is more complex.
āIt is not necessarily the caseā that the boards of small voluntary bodies in England and Wales are particularly unrepresentative, he argued, pointing out that a large number of such organisations are āoverwhelmingly used by older people Ā ā who are also much whiter than the general populationā.
As a result, Mr. Ainsworth said it is āhard to level any criticism at these bodiesā, asserting that their boards consist of āpeople who are willing to do the jobā and that trustees āare giving up substantial time for relatively little reward, in order to provide a service for their peersā.
āGiven the difficulties of social disengagement faced by many elderly white men, perhaps ā rather than complaining ā we should be celebrating that they are finding something meaningful and making a strong contribution,ā he added.
Contending that āitās easy to measure age, gender and so onā, the Civil Society Media editor also suggested that āthe real benefit of diversityā to organisations ācomes from getting different viewpoints around the tableā.
Plenty more to it, but the TL:DR; basically comes down to we want the old white mans money, but they should get less of a say in how we spend it.
Itās a sensationalist headline as is expected from Brietbart, but not wholly inaccurate.
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