Ciaran Devane (pictured), chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support and Richard Leaman, chief executive of Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, have been elected to NCVO’s board of trustees.
    
They will formally be approved at NCVO’s AGM on 8 November, replacing Jamie Dear, who will stand down at the AGM and Tom Mullarkey, who stood down earlier this year.

Martyn Lewis, chair of NCVO, said, “I’m delighted to welcome Ciarán and Richard to the board. Their insight will be enormously valuable as NCVO looks to support charities through a time of enormous change and challenge and enable us to better represent a large, diverse and collectively powerful sector.”

Jonathan Moore, former chief executive at the Suffolk Association of Voluntary Organisations has also been appointed for a second term and Bruce Gordon, who was co-opted to the board in 2012, will replace Helen Simmons as honorary treasurer when she stands down at the AGM.

NCVO is currently governed by a board of 12 trustees – nine, including the chair, are elected by the membership and three are co-opted by the board to ensure a breadth of skills and experience. Trustees are appointed for a three-year term and serve a maximum of two terms.

The umbrella body is set to merge with Volunteering England after opening talks earlier this year. As part of the merger process two further board members will be appointed creating a board of 14. One trustee will come from a volunteering centre and the other from a large volunteer-involving organisation. A further Volunteering England trustee will join the Nominations Committee which selects candidates for the NCVO Board.