Latest appointment information from across the charity sector, together with a bunch of recent Trustees at The Felix Venture, senior hires at Feminine Lead, and extra.
Royal Society for Blind Kids appoints entrepreneur Simon Ward as Trustee
The Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC), a UK charity which helps blind and partially sighted kids and younger folks and their households, has appointed expertise entrepreneur Simon Ward as a Board Trustee.
Ward, who based world advertising and marketing expertise firm Impressed Considering Group (ITG), will work with Julie Davis, CEO and the board to additional develop the companies that the RSBC presents, in addition to present strategic steerage on its enlargement. ITG at the moment works with among the world’s most recognisable manufacturers together with PUMA, Boots, KFC, Heineken, M&S and Audi.
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The Feminine Lead publicizes two new senior hires
The Female Lead has employed Beverley Brown as Industrial Director and Louise Ridley as Editorial Director. Brown will deal with constructing partnerships and extra funding to The Feminine Lead’s industrial arm to assist develop its attain and impression. Ridley might be chargeable for The Feminine Lead’s viewers, designing its narrative and shaping the conversations and campaigns it leads, whereas managing its staff of content material creators, ambassadors and volunteer influencers. Each Brown and Ridley began their new positions on 29 April.
Brown co-founded consultancy Nicoll Curtin in 1999. She beforehand established consultancy Kenbury Associates, and performed a pivotal function in establishing The Rising Markets Charity for Kids. She sits on the administration board of Girls in Banking & Finance, and based Stronger Collectively, the primary cross-industry gender equality collaboration, which launched in March. Ridley is an award-winning journalist who has held senior roles on the BBC, HuffPost and BuzzFeed, and labored at nationwide magazines and newspapers. She was most just lately Enterprise Insider’s first options editor exterior of the US. She co-founded The Second Supply, a community that paired over 200 girls journalists from underrepresented backgrounds with mentors. In 2023 she was a part of the On-line Information Affiliation’s Girls’s Management Accelerator for leaders pushing digital innovation.
The Felix Venture appoints three new Board Members with yet another to comply with
The Felix Project has welcomed three new members to its Board of Trustees, with one additional Trustee to be appointed later this 12 months.
The Felix Venture has appointed Matt Birch the UK Nation Supervisor at Amazon Recent, which provides The Felix Venture with meals. Birch labored beforehand as Director at Sainsburys and Central England Co-operative. Paul Drechsler CBE is an skilled enterprise chief. He’s the present president of SCI®, a Non-Government Director of Schroders & Co. and Chairman of Worldwide Chamber of Commerce UK. He’s additionally the previous chair at BusinessLDN. Adam Park is the CEO of Good day Recent UK: one other long-term provider of surplus meals and Felix companion. The brand new trustees carry an intensive vary of expertise and experience throughout many areas together with the meals {industry}, earnings technology, well being & security and public coverage: very important sectors throughout the work of The Felix Venture.
Crowe appoints Helen Blundell as companion in Social Goal and Non Revenue staff
Audit, tax, advisory and threat agency Crowe has appointed Helen Blundell as a companion in its Social Goal and Non Revenue staff. Blundell joins the partnership with greater than 20 years of expertise and the ICAEW Diploma in Charity Accounting (DChA). She works carefully with a various vary of shoppers from native charities to organisations working nationally and internationally. Having joined Crowe in 2023 as a Director RI (Accountable Particular person), her expertise spans audits, unbiased examinations, and advisory.
Blundell’s advisory work has included governance opinions, company buildings, and registration assist throughout a spread of sub-sectors, together with faith-based teams, heritage charities, well being and welfare, schooling, and artwork organisations.
Pennies appoints Lori Cunningham as Chief Associate Officer
Lori Cunningham joined Pennies within the function of Chief Associate Officer on 24 April. Having beforehand held senior roles at Vodafone, Countrywide and Telegraph Media Group, Cunningham brings expertise throughout digital transformation, technique, enterprise improvement and model administration to the Pennies staff, the place she’s going to oversee the Partnership perform. She can be a Non-Government Director at London Marathon Occasions, a Trustee at NEBOSH and was Vice Chair and a Trustee of The Makaton Charity till 2023.
Present Chief Associate Officer, Paul Seaman, has introduced his semi-retirement and might be stepping down from his full-time management function on the finish of June 2024, whereas remaining with Pennies in a part-time capability as a key strategic and relationship advisor going ahead.
Former Mayor of Barranquilla, Colombia turns into Government Director of Breathe Cities
Jaime Pumarejo, former Mayor of Barranquilla, Colombia, would be the new Government Director of Breathe Cities, a partnership between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Clear Air Fund, and C40 Cities, which helps cities around the globe to chop their air air pollution and local weather emissions. The announcement follows Breathe Cities’ enlargement past its pilot programmes in Warsaw and London, to cities together with Accra, Brussels, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Milan, Nairobi, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Sofia.
Pumarejo will lead the programme after serving as Mayor of Barranquilla between 2020-23, incomes nationwide recognition for steering town by way of the COVID-19 disaster and establishing it as a mannequin for sustainable and inclusive city improvement. He served as Colombia’s Housing and City Improvement Minister in President Juan Manuel Santos’ authorities in 2017.