Our weekly summary of the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief executives
Tom Lawson is to leave Leap Confronting Conflict and join Turn2us as chief executive. Read the full story here.
The Small Charities Coalition has appointed Angela Style as interim chief executive following the departure of Mandy Johnson. Style is chair of Endometriosis UK and was most recently the director of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance.
The Spinal Injuries Association has announced the appointment of Nik Hartley as chief executive. He was formerly chief executive of Restless Development, and will join the SIA staff team in early January 2019.
Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice, which supports children with life-shortening conditions and their families across West Yorkshire and North Manchester, has appointed Luen Thompson as the charity’s new chief executive. She has previously held senior positions at national children’s charities Barnardos and NSPCC, as well as Carers Trust.
Finance and operations
The Big Lottery Fund has appointed Shane Ryan as senior head of partnership funding. The new role has been created as part of the Big Lottery Fund’s commitment to supporting civil society and helping community and voluntary organisations to thrive. He joins from Working With Men, where he was chief executive for eight years.
Sarah Lambert, former head of policy, public affairs and volunteering at the National Autistic Society, has moved to RNIB as head of social change. She joined the charity's relationships directorate, leading the policy and campaigns team, and the external communications team.
Non executives
Carolyn Clarke will become the chair of CARE International UK on 1 January 2019. She will succeed Oliver Stocken, who steps down after serving two full three-year terms. Clarke has been a trustee of CARE International UK for almost five years and has acted both as vice-chair and as chair of its finance and audit committee. She is also a trustee of the Institute of Business Ethics.
Environmental charity, Keep Scotland Beautiful, has announced the appointment of two new charity trustees; Jane Cumming, a PR professional, and Jean Morrison, who is a former councillor.
Starlight Children’s Foundation has appointed five new trustees. They are: Dr Chris Hanvey, deputy chief executive of Barnardo’s; Dr Chris Evans, an NHS paediatric anaesthetist; James Innes, an accountant; Alain Wolffe, a former executive director of strategy and governance at Canada Life, and the father of a 12-year-old with cerebral palsy; and Hina Patel, a senior strategic project manager from investment firm BlackRock.
The scientist and broadcaster Alice Roberts has been appointed president of Humanists UK, and will prioritise promoting awareness of humanism to the British public. She said: “I am so honoured to become the next president of Humanists UK - to be joining a community of like-minded, thoughtful and compassionate people in this way. I will be working harder than ever to promote humanism. Our ‘good news’ is not that there is life after death to look forward to - but that this is the one life we have - and we need to make it meaningful, by looking after each other and the planet better than we’ve ever done before.”
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