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Fundraising and communications
Richard Lane has been appointed as director of external affairs at StepChange Debt Charity.
Lane, who is currently head of communications at Scope, will take up his new role on 25 June. He replaces Francis McGee who left the organisation in December 2017.
Lane has worked for Scope since 2015. Prior to that, he was media manager at Stonewall and worked for the Fabian Society. Lane was a journalist and political strategist for the Democratic Party in the United States of America.
Leesa Harwood has announced her resignation from the RNLI, after nine years at the organisation, first as its head of engagement and more recently as its director of community lifesaving and fundraising.
In a statement written by the charity’s chief executive Paul Boissier, RNLI said that Harwood would be stepping down on 26 October 2018 to “take time to focus more on non-work commitments”.
Before to joining RNLI, Harwood worked for the Dartington Hall Trust, Save the Children and Business in the Community. She began her career in the voluntary sector in the early 1990s working for US non-profit March of Dimes in Florida.
Non executive
Barnardo’s has appointed Wendy Becker to be the new chair of its trustee board. Becker will take over next month from Tony Cohen, who is retiring from the role after six years on the board.
Becker has served as deputy chair of Cancer Research UK, as a trustee of The Prince’s Trust and is currently a non-executive director of NHS England.
She has been chief executive of Jack Wills, group chief marketing officer on Vodafone’s global executive committee and the executive director of TalkTalk Residential. She was also a partner at international management consulting firm McKinsey & Co for 15 years.
Anna Laszlo has been appointed as the new chair of international relief and development charity Tearfund.
Laszlo joins Tearfund’s board having spent the last three years as chair of World Vision UK’s board. She has worked as a civil servant for 14 years with the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Laszlo will take up her new role on 27 September, replacing current chair Clive Mather.
Sir Ian Diamond has been announced as the new chair of Plan International UK. Diamond is currently the principal and vice chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.
He is also currently the chair of British Universities and Colleges Sport, chair of the Edinburgh College of Further Education and a board member of UK Research and Innovation.
Diamond replaces current chair Lady Amanda Ellingworth, who joined the board in 2016. Ellingworth is moving on to become a board member of Plan International and will remain on the UK organisation’s board.
Four new trustees have been announced by The Point of Care Foundation, a charity which works to support human-focused healthcare for patients and staff.
The new trustees have been named as: Peter Homa, chair of the NHS Leadership Academy; Donna Green, chief nurse and deputy chief executive at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Nikki Marsh, director of customer and digital at Leeds Building Society and Joe Gannon, independent advisor on healthcare and digital health.
The appointments increase the charity’s current board to ten trustees.
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