Hasn’t new boss learned from past?
IF a National Trust boss can’t learn lessons from the past, who can? Hilary McGrady’s comments follow a string of controversies involving her predecessor Dame Helen Ghosh.
In 2015 Dame Helen declared the Trust’s grand houses had ‘too much stuff’ in them and the organisation was too ‘middleclass’. The next year, the charity was accused of buying Lake District farmland at an inflated price, thwarting locals who wanted to keep it as a working farm. Last year came the accusation that it was ‘airbrushing faith’ after posters advertised an ‘egg hunt’ instead of using the term ‘Easter egg’.
And in the summer volunteers mutinied when they were forced to wear gay pride badges to mark 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK.