Evidence library

CRER research examining whether there is underrepresentation of minority ethnic people on charity boards,, with a focus on the top charities in Glasgow by income. CRER identified ethnicity and gender for each of the trustees for all 426 of the charities in sample pool through a "combination of survey responses and observational analysis".

Key findings

• 80% of All Charities in Glasgow have all-white trustee boards, compared to only 2% that have a board entirely made up by BME trustees.
• 95% of All Charities in Glasgow have a white-majority board.
• "Only 55 of the 426 charities have more than 11.6% trustees from a BME background (the Glasgow BME population from the 2011 Census). Put another way, 87% of Glasgow’s charities have trustee boards with a lower proportion of BME trustees than the BME population in Glasgow”.
• 5.9% of all the charity trustees in Glasgow are from a BME community, only about half the proportion of the overall BME population in Glasgow.