RNIB appoints Sally Harvey to chief executive role

Harvey has been acting chief executive since Lesley-Anne Alexander retired in October last year

The Royal National Institute of Blind People has appointed Sally Harvey as its permanent chief executive.

Harvey, former managing director of the charity’s subsidiary RNIB Places, has been acting chief executive of the RNIB since October 2016, when Lesley-Anne Alexander retired after 12 years at the helm.

Harvey has been at the RNIB since 2009 in several senior leadership roles, the charity said, and was previously acting chief executive and director of housing at the Abbeyfield Society and director of resident services at the Peabody Trust.

She will be paid between £150,000 and £160,000 a year as chief executive, the charity said, which is the same as her predecessor’s wage.

According to its entry on the Charity Commission’s online register, the RNIB had an income of £114.5m in the year to 31 March 2016 and employs 2,359 people.

Harvey said: “I’m honoured to be trusted with this important role. We are at a turning point. The RNIB is changing and we will continue to adapt and modernise our approach.

“Alongside our community, supporters and partners, we are working to ensure that being blind or partially sighted isn’t a barrier, everyone with sight loss can live their life with confidence and the eye health of generations to come is prioritised.” 

The RNIB has made a number of changes to in the past year. One hundred staff left the charity earlier this year after a restructure. The charity also completed a merger with its partner charity Action for Blind People.

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A subsidiary of the charity, RNIB Solutions, which was set up by the charity in 2013 to generate income and provide services such as talking books and a Braille library, has also lost 23 staff as part of a restructure of the division after it made a loss in four of the past five years.

Eleanor Southwood, chair of the RNIB, said in a statement: “On behalf of the board of trustees, I would like to congratulate Sally on her appointment as our new chief executive. 

“Blind and partially sighted people face significant barriers to inclusion in society. In Sally’s appointment we have someone who will work with our community to tackle this head on.”

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Social Investment Business appoints new chief executive

Nick Temple, deputy chief executive at Social Enterprise UK, will take up the role in January

Nick Temple has been appointed chief executive of the Social Investment Business, the organisation has announced.

Temple, who is deputy chief executive of the umbrella body Social Enterprise UK, will take up his new role in January.

He will replace Jonathan Jenkins, who left SIB earlier this year to become chief executive at London’s Air Ambulance.

Temple, who has been at SEUK for six years, was previously an independent consultant working with organisations including the British Council and UnLtd. Before that he was director of policy and communications at the School for Social Entrepreneurs. 

SIB has not disclosed what Temple’s salary will be, but Jenkins earned between £100,000 and £109,999 in 2016, according to SIB’s most recent accounts. 

“I am tremendously excited to be joining SIB and cannot wait to get started,” said Temple.

“I am joining at a very important time. We need to make social investment work for more charities and social enterprises and SIB is brilliantly placed to test innovative approaches and explore new partnerships that can help tackle the big challenges we face as a country.”

Hazel Blears, chair of the SIB, said: “Nick’s knowledge and understanding of social enterprise and social investment is second to none and I am absolutely delighted that he will be our next chief executive.

“I am looking forward to working with Nick to take our business from strength to strength as we move into a new phase of development and use more of our own money to test new approaches to social investment that help more organisations improve people’s lives.”

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Bond appoints Caroline Nursey as its new chair

Nursey is executive director of BBC Media Action, and replaces Tim Wainwright, executive director of WaterAid

The international development charity body Bond has appointed Caroline Nursey, executive director of BBC Media Action, as its new chair.

Nursey, who has been executive director at BBC Media Action since 2009, has succeeded Tim Wainwright, executive director of WaterAid, who has served as Bond’s chair since April 2015. 

Nursey will serve an initial one-year term in her new role, Bond said in a statement.

Before her role at BBC Media Action, an international development charity that focuses on using the media to reduce poverty, Nursey spent seven years in director-level roles at Oxfam.

She was also one of Bond’s founders and has been involved in the organisation for more than 20 years.

Nursey said: “I have been involved with Bond since its formation and have been proud to watch the organisation go from strength to strength.

“Bond plays a critical role in supporting and strengthening the development and humanitarian sector so that we all work effectively to help those facing insecurity and living in poverty. As the recent flooding in south Asia and Hurricane Irma sadly remind us, the invaluable work our sector does is needed now more than ever.” 

Tamsyn Barton, chief executive of Bond, said: “We are delighted to welcome Caroline as chair of Bond. Caroline was one of the founders of Bond and has been pivotal in supporting the organisation’s growth in strength over the past 20 years.

“Caroline brings a wealth of experience, enthusiasm and commitment to the development sector. We are very much looking forward to welcoming Caroline and continuing the fantastic work Bond does to champion and challenge the development sector.”

Barton also paid tribute to Wainwright, who she said “achieved an enormous amount over a short period of time” and thanked him for his “continued dedication to Bond”.

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Fundraising Regulator appoints partner to help ‘vulnerable’ people with FPS

The Fundraising Regulator has appointed Yonder Digital Group to provide telephone support to the Fundraising Preference Service.

Yonder will offer its services to “vulnerable” people wishing to register their preferences with a live agent rather than use the online service. 

The FPS, which will enable people to block post, phone, email or text communications form named charities, was officially launched earlier this month. According to the regulator, 4,015 suppression requests were made in the first six days of launch.

The regulator said Yonder had been chosen to help provide the service because its staff had been specifically trained to work with vulnerable callers. The company will offer a supportive service to callers via a team of ‘brand ambassadors’.

Nick Allaway, head of finance at the Fundraising Regulator, said: “The FPS is a website based service which will give the public the chance to manage all direct marketing communications from a specific charity.

“However, we are fully aware that some members of the public, particularly those not familiar with using online services, will want to just pick up the phone to specify their preferences.

“Therefore, having an alternative contact method was critical. Yonder Digital Group, with its technology, expertise and highly-skilled contact centre agents was able to offer this additional support.”

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