Our weekly round-up of all the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief executive
Emma Atkins has been announced as the new director of coaching at sports training charity, Sports Coach UK.
Atkins will join Sports Coach UK from the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, where she has worked since the charity started in 2008. She became the Trust’s chief executive in 2015, having originally joined the organisations as sports director.
Since taking over as chief executive of the organisation, Atkins has helped grow the organisation to deliver programmes to “more than 300,000 young people facing disadvantage” across the UK.
Spinal cord injury charity Back Up has begun the search for a new chief executive, after it was announced last week that incumbent chief executive Louise Wright will leave the organisation in July.
Wright has been chief executive of the charity for 12 years, in which time the organisation has grown the number of service users by eight-fold and expanded the range of services it can offer to its beneficiaries.
The charity said it was looking for “a new outstanding, values driven and passionate chief executive” to help it “realise our vision of a world where everybody with a spinal cord injury can reach their full potential”.
Non executive
Writer and comedian David Baddiel has been appointed as Alzheimer’s Society’s newest ambassador.
The news comes after Baddiel premiered a recent Channel 4 documentary about his father’s struggle with Pick’s Disease – a rare form of dementia.
The documentary, entitled The Trouble with Dad was shown on Channel 4 and documents both Baddiel and his brother’s “experience caring for Colin, who dementia affects the part of his brain that controls personality and behaviour”.
Baddiel said he was “delighted to be joining forces with Alzheimer’s Society”.
Former Special Forces soldier turned Channel 4 television presenter Ant Middleton has been announced as an ambassador for tri-service military charity SSAFA.
According to SSAFA, Middleton spent a number of years in the armed services, including with the Special Boat Service, Royal Marines and Parachute Squadron. He is now chief instructor on Channel 4’s SAS: Who Dares Wins and Mutiny.
Middleton joins actor Antony Cotton, Dame Vera Lynn and historian Dan Snow as an ambassador for SSAFA.
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