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escotregen

National Trust for Scotland in financial doo doo - again.

I’ve just listened this morning to the Chair of The National Trust for Scotland on BBC Radio Scotland and I was totally not impressed. The Trust is yet again in another year of mega financial crisis, and if the performance of this lady is anything to go by, that’s no surprise.

Despite huge, huge, deficits building up, and the fact that they have just gone through three chief executives in (I think) about 4/5 years, she just came across as a super-optimistic but superficial personality with all the PR sheen you can take. I’m felt that I could even feel her brilliant white teeth glistening through the radio and she spoke in that semi-official, sub-MBA language that’s all about micro-managing and ‘value-added’.

She seemed to reply to every one of the questions with either a denial that the issue was a problem, or just played it down, or put it in the past. When pressed, she said that current problems were due to that old get-out, a combination of factors – so nothing and above all, no-one, has any particular responsibility.


One point he interviewer put was that the out-going chief executive was paid an eye-watering salary of £180,000 pa – and this is a charity dependent on voluntary subs?!  

Her response to that is the National Trust is a ‘very complicated’ organisation and that,  she said, the chief executive did not get paid that because… it’s all much ‘more complicated than that’. About the only point I could agree with her was when she said that the chief executive’s salary was ‘in the middle’ of what chief executives of charities earn; and I thought “yes, you’re right about that one”.

Another odd point was that whilst she was denying that their successive loss of chief executives was a problem, the interviewer pointed out that she (now the current chair?) ‘were yourself the chief executive’. She just lightly cast that aside with a ‘I didn’t consider myself a chief executive’ – odd that, and I would have like to have heard more about the governance implications.

Anyhows, I gave up on the National Trust many years ago – it was too expensive, too middle class and too tweedy and too Edinburgh/ Establishment hidebound.
wee minx

Re: National Trust for Scotland in financial doo doo - again

escotregen wrote:

Anyhows, I gave up on the National Trust many years ago – it was too expensive, too middle class and too tweedy and too Edinburgh/ Establishment hidebound.


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escotregen

Seems that what I posted awhile ago on the travails of the National Trust for Scotland under the... ahem... leadership... of its present chief executive is coming to the boil:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/n...rusts_reaction_to_cash_crisis.php

But remember, you read about it on Urban Glasgow first
escotregen

The fun and games continue at the National Trust:

"The chairman of the National Trust for Scotland will step down in just over a week after members tabled a motion of no-confidence in her. Shonaig MacPherson said her decision was made before the unprecedented revolt over the trust's financial difficulties, which resulted in the announcement that 11 historic properties were to close and nearly 100 jobs were to be lost."

Sounds like she was part of the problem and not part of the solution after all; very much the impression that came across in the BBC Scotland radio interview earlier this year.

I also noted that:

"She holds a number of other positions including chair of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. The woman who has been spearheading the difficult task of getting the trust back in the black with a three-year programme to cut a £3m deficit..."

It does seem that we have in Scotland a cadre of people who seem to populate various boards of 'the great and good' that don't seem to achieve much anything that could be described as 'great and good'.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/n...al_Trust_for_Scotland_to_quit.php
Doog Doog

escotregen wrote:
The fun and games continue at the National Trust:

"The chairman of the National Trust for Scotland will step down in just over a week after members tabled a motion of no-confidence in her. Shonaig MacPherson said her decision was made before the unprecedented revolt over the trust's financial difficulties, which resulted in the announcement that 11 historic properties were to close and nearly 100 jobs were to be lost."

Sounds like she was part of the problem and not part of the solution after all; very much the impression that came across in the BBC Scotland radio interview earlier this year.

I also noted that:

"She holds a number of other positions including chair of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. The woman who has been spearheading the difficult task of getting the trust back in the black with a three-year programme to cut a £3m deficit..."

It does seem that we have in Scotland a cadre of people who seem to populate various boards of 'the great and good' that don't seem to achieve much anything that could be described as 'great and good'.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/n...al_Trust_for_Scotland_to_quit.php


ITS WHATS CALLED IN THE TRADE AS "FARTING HIGHER THAN YOUR ARSE"
Its the same where I work,where higher management consists of 10 people of limited competence which used to be managed by 3 who knew the job inside out.
escotregen

 in the olden days it was called the Law of Incompetence, whereby everyone gets promoted to the level at which they are incompetent and cannot go any further, but are incompetent at what they are now stuck doing
samscafeamericain

escotregen wrote:
The fun and games continue at the National Trust:

"The chairman of the National Trust for Scotland will step down in just over a week after members tabled a motion of no-confidence in her. Shonaig MacPherson said her decision was made before the unprecedented revolt over the trust's financial difficulties, which resulted in the announcement that 11 historic properties were to close and nearly 100 jobs were to be lost."

Sounds like she was part of the problem and not part of the solution after all; very much the impression that came across in the BBC Scotland radio interview earlier this year.

I also noted that:

"She holds a number of other positions including chair of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. The woman who has been spearheading the difficult task of getting the trust back in the black with a three-year programme to cut a £3m deficit..."

It does seem that we have in Scotland a cadre of people who seem to populate various boards of 'the great and good' that don't seem to achieve much anything that could be described as 'great and good'.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/n...al_Trust_for_Scotland_to_quit.php


spot on, we have a self serving clique of 'senior people' who all know each other and tend to make sure each other get wee shots at public appointments.  They have a tendency to be completely useless but they have a great CV
dickyhart

samscafeamericain wrote:
escotregen wrote:
The fun and games continue at the National Trust:

"The chairman of the National Trust for Scotland will step down in just over a week after members tabled a motion of no-confidence in her. Shonaig MacPherson said her decision was made before the unprecedented revolt over the trust's financial difficulties, which resulted in the announcement that 11 historic properties were to close and nearly 100 jobs were to be lost."

Sounds like she was part of the problem and not part of the solution after all; very much the impression that came across in the BBC Scotland radio interview earlier this year.

I also noted that:

"She holds a number of other positions including chair of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. The woman who has been spearheading the difficult task of getting the trust back in the black with a three-year programme to cut a £3m deficit..."

It does seem that we have in Scotland a cadre of people who seem to populate various boards of 'the great and good' that don't seem to achieve much anything that could be described as 'great and good'.

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/n...al_Trust_for_Scotland_to_quit.php


spot on, we have a self serving clique of 'senior people' who all know each other and tend to make sure each other get wee shots at public appointments.  They have a tendency to be completely useless but they have a great CV



Couldnt agree more, i work for a council (SLC) and its full of folk like that, Basically if ya cant sack em, promote them!!

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