escotregen
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National Trust for Scotland in financial doo doo - again.I’ve just listened this morning to the Chair of The National Trust for Scotland on BBC Radio Scotland and I was totally not impressed. The Trust is yet again in another year of mega financial crisis, and if the performance of this lady is anything to go by, that’s no surprise.
Despite huge, huge, deficits building up, and the fact that they have just gone through three chief executives in (I think) about 4/5 years, she just came across as a super-optimistic but superficial personality with all the PR sheen you can take. I’m felt that I could even feel her brilliant white teeth glistening through the radio and she spoke in that semi-official, sub-MBA language that’s all about micro-managing and ‘value-added’.
She seemed to reply to every one of the questions with either a denial that the issue was a problem, or just played it down, or put it in the past. When pressed, she said that current problems were due to that old get-out, a combination of factors – so nothing and above all, no-one, has any particular responsibility.
One point he interviewer put was that the out-going chief executive was paid an eye-watering salary of £180,000 pa – and this is a charity dependent on voluntary subs?!
Her response to that is the National Trust is a ‘very complicated’ organisation and that, she said, the chief executive did not get paid that because… it’s all much ‘more complicated than that’. About the only point I could agree with her was when she said that the chief executive’s salary was ‘in the middle’ of what chief executives of charities earn; and I thought “yes, you’re right about that one”.
Another odd point was that whilst she was denying that their successive loss of chief executives was a problem, the interviewer pointed out that she (now the current chair?) ‘were yourself the chief executive’. She just lightly cast that aside with a ‘I didn’t consider myself a chief executive’ – odd that, and I would have like to have heard more about the governance implications.
Anyhows, I gave up on the National Trust many years ago – it was too expensive, too middle class and too tweedy and too Edinburgh/ Establishment hidebound.
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wee minx
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Re: National Trust for Scotland in financial doo doo - again | escotregen wrote: |
Anyhows, I gave up on the National Trust many years ago – it was too expensive, too middle class and too tweedy and too Edinburgh/ Establishment hidebound. |
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