Su Sayer

Su Sayer

Su Sayer is the chief executive at United Response, which helps sufferers of learning disabilities and mental health problems, with almost 3,000 staff and 250 residential units throughout England and Wales. She co-founded the charity in 1973.

Awarded an OBE in 2000 for services to disabled people, Sayer also received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2003 Charity Awards.

She has served on the boards of several government bodies and charities and is currently a trustee of Save the Children and involved in a consultation group for the Futurebuilders fund.  

Sayer is also vice-chair of the Prostate Cancer Charity, a member of the Students’ Union Evaluation Initiative Validation Panel, an honorary senior visiting fellow in the faculty of management at Cass Business School, City University and vice-Chair of Bath University Students’ Union. 

She was previously on the trustee board for NCVO and was chair of ACEVO for three years. 

 

 

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Cabinet Office considers appointing charity contracting rep

The Cabinet Office is looking at appointing a commissioning specialist to improve contracting relationships with the voluntary sector, Lord Wallace revealed at the Civil Society Question Time event yesterday.

Defining social enterprise

The charity sector must take the lead in defining what we mean by social enterprise, urges Su Sayer.

Top 100 Chief Executives Survey

Vibeka Mair reviews the leaders of the UK’s largest charities.

Dealing with a thick-skinned troublesome trustee

Rose Wilson and Su Sayer offer advice as to how best to deal with a difficult trustee who just won't budge.

Is Lord Wallace suggesting that Ministers are slow learners when confronted with evidence of all the problems being thrown up by payment by results for small and medium-sized third sector organisations? Why should the experiment continue in its present form once the evidence is confronted?

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Case study: How United Response listened to service users

United Response established a specialist inclusion team to help it increase the involvement of beneficiaries in the charity's governance

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