{"id":9874,"date":"2015-06-23T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=9874"},"modified":"2015-06-23T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T09:52:28","slug":"my-bad-experience-as-a-charity-chief-made-me-a-better-trustee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/06\/my-bad-experience-as-a-charity-chief-made-me-a-better-trustee\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning a lesson about why good charity governance matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANEL is here to help our Members and Friends with their Governance issues and questions, so why not take a look at our governance page here (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanel.org.uk\/governance\">www.vanel.org.uk\/governance<\/a>) to find out about how we can help.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an article from the Guardian with a lesson to learn about why good governance really matters:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;My bad experience as a charity chief made me a better trustee&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian&#8217;s blog series &#8216;<u>Confessions of a charity professional<\/u>&#8216; continues with a trustee detailing their experience as a chief officer with an &#8220;interfering, ignorant board&#8221; and a call for an improvement in charity governance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/voluntary-sector-network\/2015\/jun\/14\/my-bad-experience-as-a-charity-chief-made-me-a-better-trustee\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/voluntary-sector-network\/2015\/jun\/14\/my-bad-experience-as-a-charity-chief-made-me-a-better-trustee<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-9874\" data-postid=\"9874\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-9874 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improving charity governance is important, find out more here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5,128],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-2zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9874\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}