Small can be beautiful in the boardroom

By Nathalie Thomas, Third Sector, 14 May 2008

As charities look for ways to involve their service users in decision-making, many are reducing the size of their boards and instead creating separate and larger members assemblies. Nathalie Thomas reports.

When it comes to governance, it seems that many charities believe the old adage that too many cooks spoil the broth. In the past six months, several high-profile organisations have dramatically reduced the size of their trustee boards in favour of new, slimmer structures. Disability charity Scope and the National...