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a volunteer's rights

This is probably not the type of comment you are used to dealing with on this site, but I do hope there might be someone out there who could advise me on where I could go from now. I am a trustee of a charity where the majority of board members have decided it would be far easier to get rid of me a volunteer than someone who is their employee. They have gone about their aim by instigating a campaign of hate, lies and deception against me and at the same time ignoring all the wrongdoings of a member of staff who by her own admission has been using charity funds for non charitable purposes and not working to the terms of her contract. The employee raised a grievance claiming that I 'bullied 'her. The trustees have, incredibly, after 6 months 'investigating' her claim anmd subsequent appeal, and after having said they could find no evidence to support it, decided to uphold her grievances. The Charity Commissioners, although hugely sympathetic with my plight, say they are unable to intervene in what they describe as an 'internal dispute'. The trustees say they don't have to supply me with the reasons why they upheld her complaints, just inform me that they have.

Where do I go from here? Please help!!!