On 06/03/2012 08:30, WereSpielChequers wrote:
There are charities in the UK with some very strange
ways of
recruiting board members. It isn't unusual to have trustees nominated
by other organisations, I know one organisation where the majority of
trustees are nominated by a total of four other organisations. But
there are implications that the WMF might not like:
And the WMUK membership might
not agree too.
The time taken from WMUK to become a registered charity and the final
discussions with the Charities Commission, and the time elapsed since
the registration as a Charity mean it is not so easy to make a major
change in governance.
In general, I am very fed up with organizations who make constitutional
change about once a year on average. Changes dilute the strength of a
constitution. A constitution that reacts to every whim of the members of
the body (or the parent body) is not robust. It ends up with the feeling
that you can make it up as you go along.
IMHO WMUK is run very well by Board, and very properly. Any observation
by a third party to that WMUK is not run to the highest standards would
not be a good thing.
Gordo
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