Acevo, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Sense and more announce their latest movers.
Chief executive
Sir Stephen Bubb has announced that he plans to step down from his role as chief executive of Acevo later this year.
Bubb, who has led Acevo for 15 years, is set to remain at the infrastructure body as director of a new initiative, the Charity Futures Programme. He will officially step down at the end of June.
Asheem Singh, director of public policy at Acevo, will assume the chief executive’s role while the organisations recruits Bubb’s replacement.
The chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Julia Unwin, has announced that she will leave the organisation at the end of 2016.
Unwin, who has led the social change and research charity for the past ten years, is set to take a two-year post as chair of an upcoming inquiry into the future of the charity sector.
Recruitment for Unwin’s successor will begin in the summer and the charity hopes to have someone in place by the autumn, to start properly in 2017.
Fundraising and communications
Sense, the national deafblind charity, has appointed Sarah Lee as its new director of fundraising.
Lee joins the organisation from Macmillan Cancer Support where she worked for nearly five years. Most recently Lee was leading Macmillan's Mass Market Fundraising team.
She will be tasked with increasing Sense's voluntary income and developing its portfolio of fundraising products.
Non executive
Peter Ainsworth has been appointed chair of The Churches Conservation Trust for a three year term.
Ainsworth is set to take up his new role from 1 July this year. He is the former Shadow Secretary of State for Culture.
He also has been UK chair of the Big Lottery Fund since 2011. He also previously served on trustee boards at Plantlife International and the Elgar Foundation.
The Royal Voluntary Service has recruited dancer and choreographer Wayne Sleep as an ambassador.
Sleep said that his late mother was a “stalwart” of the charity. He joins other ambassadors for the charity including: Phillip Schofield, Felicity Kendal and Patricia Routledge.
