Opinion: Don't get rid of our 'amateur' trustees

By Peter Stanford, Third Sector, 8 October 2008

Many people still think charities are run by volunteers - and in a sense they are right.

It has become fashionable to decry our time-honoured, amateuristic way of doing things in these isles. But as someone who still has some sympathy for John Major's famous image of Britain as a nation of cricket pavilions, warm beer and old ladies on bikes, my attention was caught by nfpSynergy's...

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