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Fundraising and communications
The Stroke Association has appointed Andrew Cook as executive director of income generation, replacing the organisations current, interim director of fundraising Sam Hyde.
Cook will join the organisation on 24 July and will be based at the charity’s head office in London. He will be responsible for overseeing the charity’s fundraising and commercial activity.
He has worked in the charitable sector for over 25 years with organisation like the Charities Aid Foundation, WaterAid and, most recently, with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.
Non executive
Jo Cleary has been appointed chair of older people’s charity Independent Age, succeeding Dame Diana Brittan, who is to step down from the role after eight years.
Cleary will formally take up the role on 29 June, at the charity’s Annual General Meeting. She has worked as a director with responsibility for adult social care in three councils, as a senior civil servant in the Department of Health and an NHS director.
She has also chaired three national organisations in the past: The College for Social Work, the National Skills Academy for Social Care and 4Children. Clearly is currently a trustee at the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
Lord Colin Low of Dalston has been appointed patron of eye research charity Fight for Sight.
Low, who has been blind since the age of 3, was awarded a CBE in 2000 for his work campaigning for the rights of blind and disabled people. He was created a life peer in June 2006.
He previously served as chair of RNIB from 2000 to 2009 and has been president of the European Blind Union.
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