Our weekly summary of the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief executive
International development agency Restless Development has appointed Perry Maddox as its new chief executive.
Maddox was previously the organisation’s chief operating officer and bring 15 years of experience working in the youth and community development sectors. He replaces outgoing chief executive Nik Hartley and will take up his new role in February 2018.
Along with his work for the charity, Maddox also worked with the Peace Corps. He’s also a trustee on the board of Accountable Now.
Dr Nick Merriman has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Horniman Museum and Gardens.
Merriman will take up his new role on 1 May 2018, and joins from Manchester Museum in the University of Manchester where he is currently director. He is also the interim director of the Whitworth.
He succeeds current chief executive Janet Witmayer who will be stepping down next year after 20 years as the chief executive of the organisation.
Future First has appointed Matt Lent as its new chief executive. Lent will be joining the organisation in January from UK Youth, where he is currently director of partnerships and policy.
Lent has worked in the youth charities for the last 13 years. He was the operations director at Schools Council UK, and also helped deliver ThinkForward, a five year education-to-employment initiative.
He also founded social enterprise Treetop Training and Education in 2009 and was an associate of London Youth for over four years.
Finance and policy
Emily Cherry has been appointed assistant director of policy and public affairs at Barnardo’s. Cherry, who is currently head of participation at NSPCC, will join Barnardo’s on 28 November.
Prior to her role with NSPCC, she was policy, practice and participation manager at the Children’s Society.
Cherry joins Barnardo’s as the organisation begins work on a new ten-year corporate strategy.
Non executive
Lynne Berry has been announced as the new chair of trustees at walking and cycling charity Sustrans, taking over from incumbent Bill Stow who steps down on 31 December this year.
Berry brings a vast amount of experience to the role, including roles as chair of Breast Cancer Now, deputy chair at the Canal and River Trust and her work with the Commission on the Voluntary Sector and Ageing.
She’s also an honorary visiting professor at Cass Business School and a fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Berry is also the former executive director of the Chairty Commission and a founder of Public Benefit.
Help for Heroes has appointed Michael Lake as the next chair of its trustee board. He replaces Alex Scott-Barrett, who is stepping down from the organisation having completed the maximum term as a trustee.
Lake has previously been a trustee of both the Disasters Emergency Committee and the Charities Aid Foundation. He has also worked with Cornwall Care and Orchard Care Homes in a non executive capacity.
He was director general of Help the Aged for over 10 years and is currently the director of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
Women in Sport has announced that Zoe Collins has been appointed as the chair of its trustee board. Collins is currently the chief content officer for the Jamie Oliver Group.
Stonewall has announced the appointment of four new trustees to its non executive board. They are: Jonathan Andrews, a solicitor at Reed Smith; Catherine Dixon, chief executive of Askham Bryan College; Ros Parker, chief operating officer and equality and diversity lead for Amnesty International UK and Mohsin Zaidi a white collar crime barrister.
Chair of the Stonewall board of trustees, Jan Gooding, said the charity was “delighted to have recruited a group of new trustees who bring a range of specialisms, skills and experience”.
Social change charity Good Things Foundation has appointed three new non executive directors to its board.
The new trustees have been named as Chad Bond, head of service at Government Digital Service; Roy Clare, who has recently returned from six years as director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand and Nicola Wallace Dean, programme lead for Starting Point Community Learning Partnership in Stockport.
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