Bridget Warr to leave Guide Dogs

Finance | Tania Mason | 9 Sep 2009

Bridget Warr, chief executive of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, has resigned from her post after six years at the helm and will leave in March next year in order to “seek new challenges”.

The job will be advertised shortly and a successor appointed in time for a proper handover.

In this month's Chief Executives Survey published by Charity Finance, Guide Dogs was number 51 in the table of the top 100 charities by income, and its highest-paid employee earned between £110, 000 and £120,000.

Since 2004, Warr (pictured) has led the development and implementation of the charity’s five-year strategy ‘Moving Forward Together’ and has also led the organisation through the process of defining its strategy for the next five to ten years.

Under her watch, the charity has fundamentally reviewed the way it recruits, trains, and thanks its volunteers and has made significant progress in campaigning and fundraising.

Warr said: “It will be a huge wrench to leave Guide Dogs but I believe the time is right both for me and the organisation, to move on. I am seeking new challenges and the organisation is poised for the implementation of our exciting new strategy.

“I am proud of the achievements we have made in delivering the last five year strategy, particularly providing hundreds of new guide dog partnerships, extending our mobility services and achieving changes in the law to uphold the rights of blind and partially-sighted people.

“Working with Guide Dogs’ clients, volunteers and staff has been an inspiration. It is now time for a new person to take the lead as the organisation sets out to deliver its new ten-year strategy.”

Warr has been a board member of Acevo and chair of the International Guide Dogs Federation. She was also instrumental in creating the UK Vision Strategy.

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