When Addaction merged with KCA in 2014, it created an £80m substance abuse and mental health charity employing 1,800. Yet many of its trustees had joined when it was just a £10m organisation providing much more limited services. Fortunately, its chair was willing to tackle this issue head-on, but as interim chief executive Guy Pink recalls, it was “like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas”.

“You are asking for board members to essentially say ‘fine, thank you, I’ll be off now then’, when the reality is that not all board members will be comfortable with that,” he says.