Our weekly summary of the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief executive
The UK Council for Psychotherapy has announced the appointment of Sarah Niblock as its new chief executive.
Niblock joins the charity from the University of Westminster’s School of Media, Arts and Design, where she was most recently associate dean. Prior to that, she was head of journalism at Brunel University. She also has a doctorate in psychoanalytic theory from the University of Middlesex.
Alongside her academic work, Niblock is a freelance journalist and also has a background in regulation, having sat on the quality assurance and standards committee of the National Council for the Training of Journalists for over a decade.
Non executive
Sue Berelowitz has been appointed as the new chair of Freedom from Torture, according to the charity.
Berelowitz has been a trustee of the organisation since October 2016, and was previously deputy children’s commissioner for England and chief executive of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner between 2008 and 2015.
She is currently visiting professor and member of the Advisory Board at Huddersfield University Secure Societies Institute and is the founder and chair of the Hans Albrecht Foundation, an organisation dedicated to promoting children’s human rights.
Christian aid charity Tearfund has appointed six new trustee directors to sit on its board.
The new trustee directors are Bishop Anthony Poggo; Stephanie Biden, partner at Bates Wells Braithwaite; John Davidson; Phil Loney, current group chief executive of the Royal London Group; Rosemary Nuamah Williams, and Sally Jones-Evans, who is currently a non-executive member of the Department for International Development.
Chair of Tearfund’s board, Clive Mather, said he was “thrilled with our new board members who bring so much experience and connections” to the charity.
Citizens Advice has announced the appointments of three new trustees to its board.
The charity has appointed Will Cavendish, Mark Haysom and Andrew Stephenson to the board, following three existing trustees stepping down at the end of their second terms.
Cavendish was a senior civil servant with the Cabinet Office and Department of Health; Haysom is a former journalist and chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council, while Stephenson was the former head of human resources at a number of major organisations including Vodafone and B&Q.
Famous Bollywood actor Salman Khan has been announced as Barnardo’s first international ambassador.
The announcement was made at the O2 Arena in Greenwich yesterday, where Khan was performing his new stage show. Khan founded a charity, Being Human - The Salman Khan Foundation, in his native India and was listed as the ninth highest earning actor in the world last year, according to Forbes magazine.
Khan said: “My foundation is a lot younger than Barnardo’s, and is thousands of miles away, but we share the same goal. We are all working tirelessly to help improve the lives of the underprivileged and vulnerable children in our native countries.”
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