Sustrans and Plan UK announce their latest appointments.

Chief executives

Sustainable transport charity, Sustrans, has appointed Xavier Brice (pictured) as its new chief executive. He will join in June 2016. He has worked for Transport for London for the past ten years, which saw him design a new cycling strategy for London. Current chief executive, Malcolm Shepherd is leaving the charity at the end of March and Andy Wistow, operations director, will be interim chief executive until Brice joins.

Liz Goodwin has announced that she will stand down as the chief executive of WRAP, a waste-prevention charity, at the end of June after nearly nine years at the helm.

Non-executives

Plan UK has appointed Lady Amanda Ellingworth as its new chair. She will take over from Dame Janet Paraskeva in March 2016. She has supported the charity for 27 years by sponsoring children in Zimbabwe and Sudan.

She is also deputy chair and senior independent director of Barnardo’s and its focal point for child protection and chair of social housing.

Rosie Chapman, a former director of policy and effectiveness at the Charity Commission, has become the chair of NCVO’s steering group, Good Governance: a code for the voluntary and community sector. She has replaced Lindsay Driscoll who chaired the group for six years.

Chapman has previously said that she thinks the current code is no longer fit for larger charities, and on taking the new role she said: “We now need to have a big conversation and debate about the standard of governance our sector needs to aim for in the coming decade, what it will take to make a measurable shift, and how we can use the code to raise the bar.”