Better trustees means a better skills mix for charities | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional

Better trustees means a better skills mix for charities | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional: Attracting the right trustees is crucial for all charities. Trustees set the charity's strategy, they make the big decisions and they act as guardians of a charity's ultimate aims. Indeed, as I stressed in a previous article for these pages – a strong charity sector is founded on the trust we place in trustees to run their charities well. So a charity that lacks a committed and diverse board of trustees is likely to be at a disadvantage at the best of times, let alone during economically tough periods in which many charities are struggling.