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Transferable skills - voluntary sector women on private sector boards
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Lynne Berry
Lynne Berry was appointed chief executive of WRVS (Women’s Royal Voluntary Service) in 2007 after she joined from the General Social Care Council.
Previously Berry had worked at the Equal Opportunities Commission, been executive director of the Charity Commission and chief executive of the Family Welfare Association.
She has also acted as vice-chair of the Commission on the Future of the Voluntary Sector in England and chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on Governance in the Voluntary Sector.
Her services to the social care sector were recognised with an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours list in 2006.
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Cass Business School and NCVO have launched a new programme to get more voluntary sector women onto company boards. Lynne Berry explains why.
The Charity Commission yesterday confirmed the registration of the Canal & River Trust as a charity.
Six of the sector’s leading female chief executives have been chosen to take part in a series of events aimed at creating links between talent in the voluntary sector and FTSE company boards.
Vibeka Mair charts the apparently unstoppable rise in the popularity of social enterprise.
David McCullough, trading director of Oxfam, is to join WRVS in October as its new chief executive.
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Civil Exchange, a new think tank which will examine how civil society and the state can work better together, has officially launched with a series of think pieces from sector luminaries.
WRVS chief executive Lynne Berry is to leave the charity this summer after four years at the helm.
WRVS has appointed Darren Xiberras as its new director of corporate services, heading up the charity's finance function.
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