Some thoughts on being a trustee of a UK charity
Friday, July 3rd, 2015
Our Chairman has just revealed her Calendar for 2016 and of course we are all expected to gasp at her tremendous talent! Not exactly shy about blowing her own trumpet she is already telling us how it is greatest in a long line of artistic masterpieces and you had best not dissent.
What many people who support the charity do not realise is that she is on commission, in my day it was ten percent but possibly it’s more now. I remember it being mentioned at a committee meeting but since it was pointed out that payments to charity trustees are illegal, it is now never mentioned.
The nature and extent of our Chairman’s business dealings with her own charity are shrouded in secrecy and a subject of great concern. As well as commission on her artistic efforts it is strongly suspected that she is paid for her time, as is at least one other trustee who’s paid position has been established beyond doubt.
However no trustees are officially paid with the ensuing tax liability. They are paid in cash which then entered in the accounts as being spent elsewhere. Of course this is several criminal offences – false accounting, fraud and theft as the recipients have no entitlement to the money they have taken.
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