Editorial: Age Concern trustees have to find a way forward from the Heyday affair

By Stephen Cook, Third Sector, 7 November 2007

Without an objective inquiry, it will never be easy to pin down the mistakes made by Age Concern over Heyday, the organisation it launched last year to recruit people approaching retirement and help them prepare for later life.

The charity will give answers to specific questions, but declines to give a full and frank narrative, often on the grounds that it has a confidentiality agreement with Tony Page, who was involved in the first Heyday business plan and left with an £815,000 payment last year. An internal review,...