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By Sarah Townsend, Third Sector Online, 2 July 2009

Martin Narey calls for other charity chief executives to publish their claims

Barnardo's chief executive Martin Narey has revealed that he personally financed the majority of the £11,000 of expenses he incurred last year.

Narey spent a total of £11,229 during the year to April 2009 but claimed back only £3,829. He financed the remaining £7,400 through donations he made to the charity throughout the year.

Expenses claimed by his six directors totalled £6,270 during the same period.

Narey announced that he would publish details of expenses claimed by him and his directors after John Tate, IT adviser to the Charity Finance Directors' Group, suggested senior figures in the voluntary sector should do so.

Narey told Third Sector that charity leaders had an obligation to reassure donors public money was being spent responsibly, particularly in the wake of the scandal over MPs' expenses.

"Charities should not be looking at criticism of MPs and thinking they are exempt," he said. "It makes good sense to be as transparent as possible and I do not believe the sector has anything to hide."

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lyndsey maiden, 2 July 2009, 12:21

I don't know that this is particularly helpful to be honest. I know that what a CEO does has an impact on the rest of the workforce. So if a CEO doesn't claim for stuff the rest of the staff feel guilty about claiming reasonable expenses as well. Now if I was in the private sector and earning 50-100k per annum fine I can afford to do that, but when a charity worker is only on 12k or even 20k those expenses are just too hard to bear. We can be open and transparent, but people should claim what is reasonable otherwise there is no true cost of the sector being represented and you end up with pious CEOs who then make their staff feel guilty.

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Roy Norris, 3 July 2009, 13:35

This is twaddle. If donors are interested in expenses they can ask. Charity Chief Exec's aren't MPs and shouldn't try to convince us that similar considerations should apply to them. What is important is whether they deliver what donors expect, not how they expend the money!

Presumably Narey is donating via Gift Aid and donating expenses by actually claiming them and immediately them donating back. What he does with his expenses is his business, but I agree that other employee's will feel the pressure to follow suit.

What a waste of time ! Get on with what you are supposed to be doing - not playing beggar my neighbour over this pointless issue.

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