Letters / Fairer Future for Shetland
I would like to invite readers to the Fairer Future for Shetland drop-in listening exercise on the future of Shetland’s Charitable Trust this Saturday.
Shetland Charitable Trust has four trustee posts to fill by June 2017, but may find it hard to recruit good candidates unless there is first a clear commitment to genuine reform.
There is the prospect that the trust will first wish to run a local consultation and a risk that it might not be trusted to do so. It would be therefore helpful to gather a range of views ahead of time on what a fair and proper consultation would look like.
For this reason readers are very much encouraged to drop in to Room 10 in Islesburgh Community Centre between 10am and 1pm this Saturday to give their thoughts on this and on what they would wish for from their charitable trust in future.
There will be an opportunity to take part in a trial consultation by selecting which balance of elected trustees and appointee trustees you would like the trust to consult on.
Suggestions for small-scale pilot projects to address local needs, which could in future be funded by a million pound a year “Innovation Fund” are also to be sought.
Please spare ten minutes this Saturday to help get your charitable trust back on track.
Peter Hamilton,
on behalf of Democracy for Shetland’s Charitable Trust
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