I share that concern. We all know through the other organisations in which we are involved how difficult it can be to find good people, particularly younger people, as has been said, to act as trustees. Incidentally, the charitable sector is a lot more diverse than our corporate sector. About 40% of charitable trustees are women, and that figure is not the same in the corporate sector. It is important that we do not put people off from getting involved. It might be that the time has come when “one size fits all” does not work and that our largest charities, which uphold public trust and confidence in charitable giving more generally and which are very large—we are encouraging charities to merge and get larger—should be subject to far greater scrutiny and a different regime from the small ones that we all know in our constituencies and want to thrive.
Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Jenrick
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 3 December 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill [Lords].
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