Charity Commission v RNIB 226227
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | September 2012 #122The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) asked the Charity Commission for England and Wales (Commission) in May 2009 to authorise the payment of the RNIB’s Chair at the rate of £24,000 per annum for two days’ work per week. Authority was sought with effect from the date the chair was due to take office (23 July 2009), for his full three-year term of office. Previous authority had been given by the Commission to the RNIB to pay reasonable remuneration to four trustees in 2006 and to a fifth in 2007.
A week before the chair took office, some of the trustees r...