The charitable sector has been appalling bad at achieving diversity. Our governing bodies are often dramatically unrepresentative of those we serve.

Last year, Cass Business School’s Centre for Charity Effectiveness produced a report for the Association of Charitable Foundations entitled The Awareness and Effectiveness of Charity Trustees in Grantmaking in England and Wales. It surveyed more than 19,000 foundation trustees and found that for every one female trustee, there were two male trustees. Most of them were white British, older and with an above average income and education. These findings can be extrapolated to a lesser but nonetheless significant extent to charities in general.