Former Navca chief executive Kevin Curley has joined the NCVO’s advisory council, which helps to inform and shape the umbrella body’s policy work as it is being developed.
The council meets three times a year and at its most recent session members discussed the ‘responsible capitalism’ agenda. Soon after, NCVO’s chief executive, Sir Stuart Etherington, delivered a speech calling for the law to be changed so that credit ratings agencies can only be not-for-profit, and for more charity leaders to sit on PLC boards.
The full council comprises:
- Lord Richard Best - Chair of Hanover Housing Association and cross-bench peer
- Nick Booth - Runs podnosh.com
- Beth Breeze - Giving Research Centre, University of Kent
- David Brindle - Guardian journalist
- Professor Ian Bruce - Director, Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Cass Business School
- Rodney Buse - Former vice chair of NCVO
- Mike Caudrey - Blue Spark Consulting
- Selina Chen - Centre of Medical Law & Ethics, Kings College London
- Justin Davis Smith - CEO of Volunteering England
- Lucy De Groot - chief executive of CSV
- Fiona Ellis - Former director, Northern Rock Foundation
- Orlando Fraser - Social Justice Commission
- Andrew Hind CB - Editor, Charity Finance
- Elspeth Howe - Cross-bench peer
- Sarabajaya Kumar - Senior research Fellow at Oxford University
- Diana Leat - Consultant
- Martyn Lewis - Chair of NCVO
- Ruth Lister - Professor of social policy at Loughborough University
- Richard Newby - Liberal Democrat spokesman for the Treasury
- Lord David Owen – Cross-bench peer and founder of the Social Democratic Party
- Baroness Jill Pitkeathley – Former chair of Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Services and of Carers UK
- Lord Raymond Plant - Former president of NCVO
- Lenka Setkova - Director of philanthropy services, Coutts and former director of the Democracy and Civil Society Programme at CarnegieUK Trust
- Nick Seddon – deputy director of Reform think tank
- Jane Slowey - CEO of the Foyer Federation
- John Stoker - Former Charity Commissioner
- Sukvinder Kaur-Stubbs – Chair, Volunteering England
- David Taylor - Former honorary treasurer of NCVO
- Marilyn Taylor - Professor of urban governance and regeneration at University of West England
- Elizabeth Vallance - Former vice chair of Health Foundation
- Diana Warwick - Former CEO of Universities UK
- Dame Jo Williams – former chief executive of Mencap
- Sir Nick Young - CEO at British Red Cross
- Julia Unwin - CEO, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
- Pat Samuel - Deputy director, public services in the Office for Civil Society
- Kevin Curley, former CEO of Navca
