Sam Younger
Sam Younger joined the Charity Commission as chief executive in September 2010. He has extensive experience of leadership in regulation, in public policy and in charity. His previous roles include founding chair of the Electoral Commission, director general of the British Red Cross, and managing director of the BBC World Service.
After leaving the Electoral Commission he was interim chief executive of the housing charity, Shelter, and also held interim roles with the educational charity Bell Educational Trust and with the Electoral Reform Society.
Younger is an independent member of the Greater London Authority Standards Committee and a director of Electoral Reform International Services. His previous non-executive roles include chair of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and chair of Council at the University of Sussex.
The son of former Labour minister Kenneth Younger, Sam was appointed Commander of the British Empire in 2009. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and holds a number of honorary and advisory roles in academia.
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Attendees at the Charity Commission’s public meeting yesterday debated the merits of formal training for charity trustees.
The Charity Commission has added new summary pages to its website that reveal data about the voluntary sector as a whole.
The Charity Commission has today published a document for trustees that describes its role and approach when dealing with issues relating to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults.
The Charity Commission has teamed up with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators to deliver a pilot project that aims to help charities improve their governance systems.
The Charity Commission has invited charities, trustees and advisers to attend a public meeting focused on good financial controls in the voluntary sector.
The reported cost of fraud to charities decreased by £200m last year, but still takes £1.1bn out of the sector.
A one-third cut in its funding has forced the Charity Commission to review all its operations. By Sam Younger.
Opening a statutory inquiry into a charity will be very much a last resort for the newly-slimmed-down Charity Commission and will be reserved for the most serious of cases such as those involving fraud, terrorist activity, or risk to vulnerable beneficiaries.
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