Our weekly summary of the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief executive
The Campaign to Protect Rural England has appointed Crispin Truman as chief executive.
Truman will join the charity in September from the Churches Conservation Trust, where he has been chief executive for more than a decade.
He takes over from Shaun Spiers, who has been chief executive at CPRE for 13 years and is moving to head up Green Alliance in June.
Fundraising
Asthma UK has appointed Graham Kelly as its new director of fundraising, effective as of 24 April.
Kelly has more than 25 years’ experience in the industry, most recently as director of fundraising at Beating Bowel Cancer, where he helped the charity double its gross income.
At Asthma UK, he will be responsible for the overall development, direction and delivery of the charity’s fundraising portfolio including: legacies, individual giving, gaming, trusts, major donors, corporates, innovation funders, sporting events and community.
Operations
Sustainable energy charity Ashden has appointed Giles Bristow as its new director of programmes.
Bristow joins from Forum for the Future, where he oversaw its work in the food, energy and marine systems for the past five years as well as executively directing its work in India and organisational fundraising.
He previously worked as an environmental law specialist with Slaughter and May and was chief executive of Carbon Leapfrog (now Pure Leapfrog).
Non executive
Actor Michael Sheen OBE has accepted the role of honorary president of Wales Council for Voluntary Action, the Welsh national body for the third sector.
Sheen is a patron of many other third sector organisations, including Unicef UK, Social Enterprise UK, Streetfootball Wales, Credit Unions Wales, End Youth Homelessness Cymru as well as more organisations in his home county of Neath Port Talbot.
Education charity the Ernest Cook Trust has appointed Jenefer Greenwood as a new trustee to its board.
Greenwood joined the trust on 5 April following a career in the property sector. A qualified chartered surveyor, she worked for the Grosvenor Estate, initially as retail strategist and then as director sales and lettings for the UK and Ireland.
She was a commissioner of The Crown Estate from 2004 to 2011 and chairman of the National Skills Academy for Retail, set up in 2008 to help young people establish careers in retail and hospitality.
Judy Gibbons has been appointed as the new chair of the Which? Limited board.
She has joined the board as a non-executive director and will step into the role of chair in June. She brings over 30 years of experience at some of the world’s leading technology companies and replaces Mike Clasper CBE, who is stepping down after nine years as chair.
Gibbons is also a non-executive director on the boards of Michael Kors Holdings Limited, Hammerson plc, Guardian Media Group plc and Virgin Money Giving and is a Trustee of Somerset House Trust.
Lord (Colin) Low of Dalston CBE has been appointed patron of the UK’s leading eye research charity Fight for Sight. His new role will involve raising awareness of the need for eye research and supporting the charity’s fundraising efforts.
Lord Low previously served as chair of RNIB from 2000 to 2009 and has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since June 2006 when he was created a life peer as Baron Low of Dalston.
British actor Rupert Evans has been appointed patron of Bowel Cancer UK.
Evans said: “Being a patron of Bowel Cancer UK means the world to me. It’s a charity very close to my heart and I know first-hand how devastating this disease can be on the individual and the whole family.
“Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the UK, but it doesn’t have to be this way - it’s treatable and curable, especially if diagnosed early.”
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