Baroness Pitkeathley discusses promoting the role of
trustees, the need to embrace digitalisation and how being involved
with a charity is a two-way street
Baroness Pitkeathley chaired the House of Lords Select Committee
inquiry into charities. The resulting report, 'Stronger
charities for a stronger society', was released in March.
What is your opinion of the state of charity governance?
One of the reasons the Select Committee and the inquiry were set
up was because of the rather torrid time the charity sector had
been going through in recent years with Kids' Company and the
fundraising difficulties and so forth. One of the main aims of the
inquiry was to acknowledge just how good the sector is, how much
good it does, how well it manages itself, and also to increase
confidence in the sector.
