Flash: C.A.T.H. Board changes
Details are still awaited but the news is that after a meeting which went on until nearly midnight on Thursday there have been a number of significant (and in the view of this author) long overdue resignations from the C.A.T.H. Board of Trustees.
The main news is that Ruth, Vivian and Mary have all resigned as Trustee Directors and Walter is restored to his elected position of Chairman and George is back as a Director.
We can only hope that the new Board will see fit to let the Members know more of the details of what happened as soon as they can, not just to prevent rumour and schism, but more importantly, so that we can all learn what went wrong, and make sure it never happens again. It seems to me that these changes can only be in the best interests of C.A.T.H., its staff, its volunteers, and the people it helps. Valuable lessons have been learned but they need to be understood by everyone, not just the few.
C.A.T.H. has a great future and one of the best ways to make sure of it is a much better informed and involved membership. The events of the last few months have shown how important it is that when bad things are happening that the good guys (and ladies) stand up and be counted. The days of secret board meetings and private Minutes and worse are dead and gone and I have no doubt that, with Walter as Chairman, other changes will take place to make the governance of C.A.T.H. a much more open and transparent process in the future.
So I'm off to find that glass I mentioned somewhere and may be a wee dram. Or perhaps a mug of Horlicks ....
