Debra Allcock Tyler

Debra Allcock Tyler

Debra Allcock Tyler has been chief executive of the Directory of Social Change since 2001. Her start in the charity sector began with the Industrial Society now known as the Work Foundation. 

She chairs the Small Charities Coalition and is a member of the Charity Commission’s Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) committee.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) and a special ambassador for Girlguiding UK. 

Allcock Tyler is also on the board of MedicAlert, and a member of Liberty. She has been a licensed practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming.

She is also the author of It’s Tough at the Top: the No-Fibbing Guide to Leadership, and more recent The Pleasure & Pain: The No- Fibbing Guide to Working with People. She is as well-known in the sector for her feisty approach as for her commitment to protecting charities’ independence and reputation.

 

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Talk of Trustee self-reliance is all very well but it doesn't address the increasingly complex work that many Trustee Boards are being asked to take on.

» Charity Commission meeting considers formal trustee training

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Charities would suffer from lower incomes if trustees were to be paid, warns VAT specialist Socrates Socratous, commenting on Lord Hodgson's claim last week that payment of trustees was inevitable.

Rodney Buse will become Guide Dogs' chairman in 2012

Rodney Buse has been announced as the next Guide Dogs chairman, taking up the position next year upon the exit of current chair Tony Aston.

Two tribes - when male panelists meet female campaigners

Men may have ruled the political panel, but women packed the punches from the audience in the Civil Society Question Time debate, says Niki May Young.

Sam Younger, CEO, Charity Commission

Attendees at the Charity Commission’s public meeting yesterday debated the merits of formal training for charity trustees.

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