I'm a manager for a small charity. My team provide the client service, the core business of the charity. They are amazing, skilled, dedicated, hard-working and caring people who go the extra mile for our clients. We all work for considerably less than market rate as we love what we do. We are a truly happy, fulfilled and cohesive team and I consider myself very lucky to have them. We have had no pay increase for eight years as the charity has never been wealthy. Last year it had a significant injection of cash and is now in a good place financially. I have been pushing and pushing the trustees to carry out a pay review which they eventually agreed to. After much discussion over several months things were looking hopeful. There was a meeting last week for managers and trustees to discuss final details which I missed due to illness. When I met with my management team colleagues yesterday, there are three of them managing various support services, finance, fundraising etc. I was told that there would be no pay increase this year as it was not budgeted for and staff are now expected to wait until next years budget. The other three managers seem to have rolled over and accepted this but I am incandescent with anger on behalf of my team. It has been apparent for years that the trustees don't value my team, nor do they realise how skilled they are or the difficult and stressful situations they face daily. I have pointed out vociferously on so many occasions that we will lose valuable people that will be hard to replace but the trustees just don't seem to care. I don't care for myself, I don't need the money but am devastated that I have to go in on Monday and tell my wonderful team that once again, they are being treated like shit! I have actually not slept all night as I am in such a rage.