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Save the Children executives shared £160,000 bonus pot
Executives at Save the Children, one of Britain's best-known charities, shared bonuses worth
more than £160,000 last year, The Telegraph can disclose.
Save the Children executives shared £160,000 bonus pot
In 2012 £22,560 was paid out to Save the Children's chief executive Justin Forsyth Photo: AP
Performance-related pay for executives at the charity rose by more than a third on the year before and
will fuel concern about boardroom pay at the UK's aid charities.
Details of the bonuses emerged after The Telegraph disclosed a significant rise in the number
of top executives at aid charities who were paid more than £100,000 a year, despite a fall in
donations and revenues in many cases.
The research prompted William Shawcross, the chairman of the Charity Commission, to accuse
the charities of bringing "the wider charitable world into disrepute" by accepting large pay rises.
Charlie Elphicke MP, a member of the House of Commons public administration select committee
which oversees the charity sector, said the bonuses were "inappropriate and objectionable".
He said: "Out-of-control salaries for charities risk bringing the voluntary sector into disrepute.
Volunteers who are paid nothing will rightly ask why charities are paying bonuses like they are
some kind of bank or big multinational. It seems inappropriate and objectionable."