Hinton Lecture: Can trust be rebuilt?

More than 160 of our membership organisations are expected to attend our 13th annual Hinton Lecture later this week (Wednesday 24 November). The lecture – delivered by Baroness O'Neill CBE FBA on the subject Can trust be rebuilt? – will take place after our Annual General Meeting, due to be held in our central London office at 5.30pm. The AGM will also mark the appointment of a new NCVO chairman following the retirement of Sir Graham Melmoth.

Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve comes from Northern Ireland and was educated at Oxford and Harvard.  She has taught at various universities in the US and the UK, was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge from 1992 to 2006 and teaches Philosophy in Cambridge.  She chairs the Nuffield Foundation, and was President of the British Academy, the UK National Academy for Humanities and Social Sciences from 2005-9. She has been a member of the House of Lords since 1999, and is an independent, non-party peer.

Our Hinton Lecture series was set up in 1998 to commemorate the life of Nicholas Hinton, a visionary former director of the organisation who died in 1997. The series has seen a range of opinion formers, politicians, philosophers and thinkers contribute their ideas and vision to the event including Prime Minister David Cameron (Building a Pro-Social Society, 2005) and Labour Party leader Ed Miliband (Changing lives, changing society, 2006).