This week the Telegraph laid into large charities and the way they spend their money through frontpage articles. Attacks like this are never helpful to our sector, so it’s important to keep abreast of how these media flurries play out. In particular this media attack used a report “A Hornet’s Nest” as its basis. The report was prepared by the True and Fair Foundation, but other sector voices have made the point that this report was not true and not fair.
Read comment on the Telegraph articles and campaign here.
And the story about how unfair the report is can be read here
Very important is the review of the report by NCVO here http://blogs.ncvo.org.uk/2015/12/12/true-and-fair-foundation-report-is-neither-true-nor-fair/ which was essentially not taken into account by the Telegraph.
Another review worth reading is here.
Take a read of it all. This sort of hype, noise and non-story is critical to our sector.