The Scottish regulator finds trustee recruitment and retention is key indicator of organisations' chances of survival. Charities with low numbers of trustees are most likely to fail, according to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. The finding was contained in a report on charity resilience published by OSCR 3rd May 2010. Based on scrutiny of submissions received by the OSCR in 2009, the report found that trustee recruitment and retention was a key indicator of whether charities were likely to survive, especially if they were small. It found that charities that wound up in 2009 had an average of four trustees, compared with an average for all charities of 13. Charities that expanded in 2009 had an average of nine trustees. The report notes that 80 percent of failed organisations had annual incomes of less that £25,000, and 54 per cent less that £2,000. "Given their size, a reduction in the number of those organisations involved in a governance role is likely to have affected their capacity to manage the organisation," it says.