Beryl Hobson leaves Charity Commission to start consultancy 1

Governance | Tania Mason | 6 Feb 2012

The Charity Commission’s head of large charities, Beryl Hobson, has quit the regulator to start up her own governance consultancy.

Hobson led the large charities division at the Commission for the last four years and when the restructure was first announced in the wake of the strategic review, she was appointed as head of London operations. But shortly afterward she decided to take advantage of the organisation’s voluntary exit scheme to focus on setting up her own company.

“It was something I’d been thinking about doing for a while,” she told civilsociety.co.uk. “In my role in the large charities division I normally got involved at the point of providing advice on governance, and it’s clear there are plenty of opportunities out there.”

Hobson will be the only full-time consultant at her new agency, Professional Governance Services, but she will call on ‘associates’ as needed.

Daisy Houghton, formerly a senior manager in the large charities division, has been promoted to be the Commission's head of London operations.

The other members of the Commission’s senior management team, reporting directly to chief executive Sam Younger, will remain the same. The team is:

Head of first contact - Neville Brownlee
Head of operations (London) - Daisy Houghton
Head of operations (Liverpool) - Lynn Killoran
Head of operations (Wales) - Harry Iles
Head of operations (Taunton) - Neil Robertson
Head of investigations and enforcement - Michelle Russell
Head of registration - Alison Wells
Head of information and communications - Sarah Atkinson
Head of policy - Jane Hobson
Head of legal - Kenneth Dibble
Head of business services - Nick Allaway

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Daryl Martin
Regis Consultants
6 Feb 2012

Beryl,

The directors at Independent Examiners wish you every success in your new career. You'll take great pleasure in building a new business and you will make a difference to many charities big and small. And (heavy sigh here) we have a tough competitor to contend with.

Enjoy

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