Small correction

Apparently the reports I heard were incorrect, according to another correspondent, and of course I'm prepared to acknowledge the errors. It is only three not four elections which are - or should be - invalid because of mistakes in the administrative procedures. And it was knitted hats for sailors not for African babies which were rubbished by a trustee as "not even for English" recipients.

Sorry for that. Doesn't mitigate the offences, though.

More invisibility...

According to my correspondents, the management of the York Diocesan Mothers' Union is in dire straits. A third of the trustee board have resigned this year. Two triennial elections have had to be repeated because of administrative errors; a third should be repeated for the same reason, and in a fourth election the CV of a candidate was "edited" before being sent to the electorate. The chairman attempted to shelve a strategy paper the trustees had commissioned, and one member of the board adamantly insisted that his is not a trustee appointment despite a very clear paragraph in the constitution saying that it is. A board member criticised the provision of knitted hats for sailors (see the earlier post) and for premature babies in Africa with the words, "They're not even English."

So the provisions of the constitution, any semblance of managerial integrity and even basic Christian charity seem to have become invisible. Ora pro nobis.

Invisibility cloak

The cloak of invisibilty still works, it seems. I responded to the CEO, and when my letter received no reply or acknowledgement inside a month I sent another copy suggesting generously that perhaps the original had been lost in the post. That was six weeks ago and still no acknowledgement.

Invisible.