Talk:Leverhulme Trust

Apparent lack of neutrality

This article is not tagged with a warning concerning non-objective content, but parts of it read as if they are straight from a Leverhulme/Unilever press release. For example,

One special element in Viscount Leverhulme's legacy is the request that the Trustees all be drawn from the highest levels within Lever Brothers or now from its descendant Unilever plc. The Trust is therefore led by a group of colleagues with wide but self-consistent experience, with a high level of mutual understanding and respect built up over many years, and with a full recognition of the special qualities and achievement of the founder. The resulting culture for decision-making is free from disciplinary special interest but fully alert to the wide-ranging impact which research and education must make in modern life.

This is absurd. What does it mean to say that a group have 'wide but self-consistent experience'? Whatever the advantages of this kind of arrangement, there are surely serious disadvantages, as well. Most obvious, these include an inevitable homogeneity and failure to represent the population who will be affected by projects. A group consisting solely of the most privileged members of a single multinational corporation stands a much lower chance of appreciating the likely impact of projects on society as a whole because they are in a poorer position to appreciate the impact on members of groups they have little affinity with.

And if a qualification for inclusion in this group is the kind of hero-worship of the founder described, then you have to wonder which world they are living in, because it does not appear to be this one. Or do the founder's 'special qualities' include the exploitation of Congolese people in forced-labour camps? Perhaps this would be better classed as an 'achievement'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.78.244.158 (talk) 01:20, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Agreed. Parts of the page are literally copy-pasted from the Leverhulme Trust website "About" page. There need to be much more balanced account of the references to the LT board and Lord Leverhulme's activities in the Congo, rather than parroting the Trust's self-justification. More discussion required. Gabrielbodard (talk) 16:29, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

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