Our weekly summary of the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief executive
Sir Tony Hawkhead has announced he is retiring from his role as chief executive of Action for Children, following four years in post.
Hakwhead has said he is retiring from the role in February 2018, due to health reasons. Action for Children said Hawkhead’s health concerns were “resolvable, but require him to take a break from a full-time role”.
He is set to be replaced by Carol Iddon who is currently managing director for children’s services at Action for Children. Read the full story here.
National grant-giving charity Longleigh Foundation has appointed Cristina Andreatta as its director with “strategic responsibility for developing its grant-funding programme and expanding its work across England”.
Andreatta was previously senior network engagement manager at the Association of Charitable Foundations. Prior to this she worked for the Human Trafficking Foundation and Migrants’ Rights Network.
The foundation is a new charity which was set up in the early part of 2017 with a £1m endowment from local housing provider Stonewater.
Anna de Pulford has been appointed as the new director of the Dulverton Trust, following the retirement of Andrew Stafford.
The announcement sees de Pulford return to the Trust, having previously been its grants director. She has since worked for Nesta, where she was digital transformations lead and was recently the director of the Yoti Foundation.
She currently sits on the board of trustees for 360Giving.
Fundraising and communications
ActionAid has appointed Orla Fee as its new director of communications and public engagement. She takes up her new role with the charity today.
She joins ActionAid from the Royal College of Physicians where Fee had been head of corporate communications since 2012. She has also worked previously with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell, in Dublin and Queens’ University, Belfast.
Fee was also a volunteer with More United’s 2017 General Election campaign and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
Non executive
BBC Children in Need has named Rosie Millard as the new chair of its trustee board. Millard takes over from former chair Stevie Spring, who steps down after chairing the charity for 9 years, the longest possible tenure.
Millard is a journalist, broadcaster, author and deputy chief executive of the Creative Industries Federation. She was previously the BBC’s arts correspondent for a decade.
She is also a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation in the UK, Home Live Art and Modern Art Oxford.
British photograph Conor McDonnell has been named as an ambassador by WWF UK. The charity said McDonnell’s appointment would help “extend” its reach with the “Instagram generation”.
25-year-old McDonnell was named on Forbes 30 under 30 in 2016 list and is a committed environmentalist with a passion for capturing images of wildlife and landscapes in the Artic.
He joins Sir David Attenborough, Anna Field and Ben Fogle in WWF’s council of influential people "dedicated to solving the urgent issues facing our planet".
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