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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Chief executive of Cancer Research UK to stand down

Sir Harpal Kumar has been leading the charity since 2007 and plans to take some time to decide his next career move

Sir Harpal Kumar, chief executive of Cancer Research UK, is to stand down in the spring after more than 10 years in the role.

A CRUK spokesman for the charity said Kumar would take some time to decide his next career move.

Kumar was appointed chief executive of Cancer Research Technology, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CRUK, in 2002 before becoming chief operating officer of the parent charity in 2004. He has been chief executive of CRUK since April 2007. 

Kumar, who was knighted in the 2016 New Year Honours list for services to cancer research, said in a statement today he “always believed that organisations benefit from refreshed leadership every so often and CRUK is no exception”.

CRUK is the UK’s largest fundraising charity and had an overall income of £679.2m in the year to the end of March 2017. 

A statement from the charity said it had made significant strides in the fields of cancer prevention and early diagnosis under Kumar’s leadership.

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, chair of CRUK, said: “I would like to thank Harpal for his tremendous contribution to the charity over the past 15 years. CRUK is a truly remarkable organisation and even more so because of Harpal’s inspirational leadership.”

He said the charity had begun the search for Kumar’s successor and planned to make an appointment to coincide with his departure. 

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Movers: Mark Adams becomes chief executive of Community Integrated Care

Plus: Rohan Putter joins Bloodwise; Stephen Ballantyne to take up new role at the Amber Foundation; NCT welcomes Peter Pedersen and more

The health and social care charity Community Integrated Care has appointed Mark Adams as chief executive. Adams, who joined the charity today, was working in Dubai as chief executive of the healthcare operator Anglo Arabian Healthcare, which he founded.

Rohan Putter has been appointed director of fundraising and marketing at the blood cancer research charity Bloodwise. He was deputy director of fundraising at Barnardo’s.

Stephen Ballantyne has been appointed head of fundraising and communications at the Amber Foundation, which works with marginalised young people. He was executive director of fundraising at Together for Short Lives.

The parenting charity NCT has appointed Peter Pedersen as chief technology officer. He joins from a similar role at Channel 4. The charity has also announced that Carey Oppenheim, outgoing chief executive at the Early Intervention Foundation, David Shanks, senior legal counsel at Google, and Stephanie Maurel, chief executive of the volunteering charity Concordia, have all joined its board.

The humanitarian mapping charity MapAction has promoted Ian Davis from head of partnerships to director of fundraising and marketing.

St Margaret’s Hospice in Somerset has appointed Max Watson as visiting professor, supporting teaching at the charity’s academy, which provides training for professionals working in end-of-life care. Watson was medical director at the Northern Ireland Hospice.

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Dame Kelly Holmes Trust names Scott-Spicer as chief executive

The former chief executive of the Carers Trust will join the trust on 4 September

The Dame Kelly Holmes Trust has appointed Gail Scott-Spicer as its next chief executive.

Scott-Spicer was the chief executive of the Carers Trust, a charity for unpaid carers, between February 2015 and May 2017, according to her LinkedIn profile, and before that was director of marketing and communications at the Scout Association for six years.

She is also vice-chair of CharityComms, the membership body for charity communications professionals, and is deputy chair of the Money Advice Trust.

Scott-Spicer replaces interim chief executive Tracey Fletcher, who was appointed in June when Emma Atkins left after nine years in the role.

Scott-Spicer will take up her role at the trust on 4 September.  

The trust was established by the 2004 double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes in 2008 and trains world-class athletes to deliver programmes to disadvantaged young people.

The trust’s annual income has more than tripled in recent years, to £3.7m in 2016 from about £916,000 in 2012. The increase can be attributed largely to securing funding from Sport England to expand the trust’s Get on Track programme.  

Michael Kelly, chair of the trust, said in a statement: “We had some truly exceptional candidates shortlisted as part of a widespread selection process. However, Gail stood out for her passion and innovation, which will be crucial for us in terms of reaching our ambitious 2020 vision and goals.”

Scott-Spicer added: “The trust’s trained workforce of hundreds of world-class athletes is a phenomenal vehicle for change in young people and communities. It will be a real privilege to work with this high-performing group and continue to develop the support and training we offer them to benefit society through the trust’s programmes.”

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Movers: Richard Piper becomes chief executive at Alcohol Research UK

Plus: Dame Helen Ghosh to stop down at National Trust and Janet Vitmayer to retire from top job at Horniman Museum

Richard Piper has been appointed as chief executive of Alcohol Research UK. Piper, who is a former chief executive of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, will join in September from the learning disability charity Mencap, where he is director of impact transformation.

Dame Helen Ghosh is to step down in March as director general of the National Trust to become master of Balliol College, Oxford. She has led the charity since 2012.

The Anglican mission agency USPG has appointed Rev Duncan Dormor as its next chief executive. Dormor, who is dean of St John’s College, Cambridge, succeeds Janette O’Neill, who is retiring after six years in the post.

Janet Vitmayer, chief executive of the Horniman Museum and Gardens, is to retire in March after 20 years in the role.

The Lake District Foundation, a new charity that is being set up to continue and build on the work of the tourism and conservation charity Nurture Lakeland, has appointed Sarah Swindley as its first chief executive. She was chief executive of Lancashire Women’s Centres.

John Christensen, founding chief executive of the Great Western Air Ambulance Charity, has announced that he will retire at the end of the month after nine years in the role.

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Catherine Johnstone appointed chief executive of Royal Voluntary Service

The former chief at Samaritans will take over from David McCullough, who is in turn becoming chief at the Abbeyfield Society

Catherine Johnstone, the former chief executive of Samaritans, has been appointed chief executive of the older people’s charity the Royal Voluntary Service.

Johnstone will succeed David McCullough, who leaves at the end of the month to become chief executive of the older people’s housing and care charity the Abbeyfield Society after more than five years at the RVS.

Johnstone, who left Samaritans in 2015, was until March interim chief executive of the Dover-based charity Migrant Help. She is chair of the Directory of Social Change and was last year appointed CBE for services to suicide prevention.

The charity, which employs 1,200 staff and has more than 25,000 volunteers, supports more than 100,000 older people each month.

Johnstone, who before joining Samaritans was interim chief executive of Capacitybuilders, the now defunct quango that provided infrastructure support to the voluntary sector, became a trustee of the RVS in January, a role she will relinquish before she becomes chief executive of the charity on 1 August.

Income at the RVS has been falling in recent years: it was £64.7m in the year to the end of March 2016, £10m less than in 2011/12.

Johnstone will be paid £136,500 for the role, the same amount that McCullough was on.

Richard Greenhalgh, chair of the RVS, said Johnstone’s record in building sustainable services, driving innovation and inspiring and enabling volunteers would be invaluable.

Johnstone said she was privileged to take up the role. “With an increasingly tough time for our society, I am looking forward to working with the staff and volunteers to ensure that Royal Voluntary Service can be the best it can be,” she said.

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RoSPA promotes Errol Taylor to chief executive

Taylor, who has been deputy chief since 2006, takes over from Tom Mullarkey, who stood down in April

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has promoted Errol Taylor to chief executive.

Taylor, who has been the charity’s deputy chief executive since 2006, takes over from Tom Mullarkey, who stood down in April after almost 11 years in the role.

Taylor, who has been acting up as chief executive, joined the charity in 2004 as head of its commercial activities.

The charity, which had an income of £7.6m in the year to the end of March 2016 and employs about 120 people, is marking its centenary this year.

Mike Parker, chairman of Rospa, said: “The board believes that Errol’s passion for accident prevention, energy, skills and experience will ensure RoSPA’s continued success for the foreseeable future.

“His enthusiasm for working in partnership with Rospa’s many like-minded stakeholder organisations should, in time, lead to a significant reduction in the burden of accidental injury.”

Taylor said: “I am proud to lead a fantastic team of dedicated colleagues and look forward to continuing to develop RoSPA’s valued relationships with other individuals and organisations across the health and safety community.”

A spokesman was unable to confirm how much Taylor would be paid for his new role.

According to the charity’s most recently available accounts, for the year to the end of March 2016, its highest-paid staff member, who is not named, was paid between £160,001 and £170,000.

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Citizens Advice Scotland makes Derek Mitchell its new chief executive

Currently a chief officer at the local government body Cosla, he will take up his new role on 28 August

Citizens Advice Scotland has appointed Derek Mitchell as its chief executive, more than a year after the previous chief executive, Margaret Lynch, was sacked after an investigation.

Mitchell, who is currently chief officer for migration, population and diversity at the Scottish local government umbrella body Cosla, is due to take up the role on 28 August.

Rory Mair, who was appointed chair of CAS in March this year, was chief executive of Cosla between 2012 and 2015 and was part of the three-strong team of board members who appointed Mitchell.

A spokesman for CAS said the recruitment process had been a “robust and competitive” one facilitated by an external recruitment process and the committee had been unanimous in its selection of Mitchell as the best candidate.

Before joining Cosla in 2005, Mitchell worked for the Scottish government as a policy adviser in the homelessness team and has previously worked in local government in a variety of management and public policy positions focusing on housing, homelessness and social work.

The CAS spokesman declined to say how much Mitchell would be paid.

Mitchell’s appointment comes after a turbulent two years for the charity, which is the umbrella body for all Citizens Advice bureaux in Scotland.

In August 2015, the charity suspended Margaret Lynch pending an investigation and she was dismissed the following March.

The same month in which Lynch was dismissed, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills reportedly ordered the charity to carry out a governance review, withholding half the annual funding it provided to CAS to ensure the charity complied.

The review, carried out by the accounting firm Deloitte, was highly critical and recommended radical reforms to the charity and its governance. Dominic Notarangelo, chair at the time, left the charity shortly before the report was published, having been warned it would contain direct criticisms of the board’s leadership.

The reforms recommended in the report were voted in by the membership in January. The vote had been postponed when four member bureaux took last-minute legal action to prevent it going ahead.

Anne Lavery, the charity’s chief operating officer, who has been acting chief executive since Lynch’s departure, will continue in the role until Mitchell joins the charity.

In a statement, Mair said Mitchell was “ideally qualified” to lead CAS.

He said: “He is an experienced manager, practitioner and policymaker, and is strongly committed to the ethos of the Citizens Advice network, bringing a strong set of values based on social justice and public service to the position.

“He is also very experienced in managing complex stakeholder relationships and is well-known and respected within government and the sectors we engage with.”

Mitchell said he was excited to have the chance to contribute to the work of the Citizens Advice network.

“I am looking forward to working with the CAS board to ensure the organisation and the member bureaux can build on their strongest assets: their staff and volunteers,” he said.

“Refreshing, renewing and emboldening this relationship with citizens, CABs and partners will be at the heart of my agenda as chief executive.”

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