Our weekly round-up of all the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief Executive
Adeela Warley has been appointed as the new chief executive of CharityComms, the membership body for charity communications professionals. Warley replaces Vicky Browning, who left the organisation to become the chief executive of Acevo.
Warley joins CharityComms from Friends of the Earth, where she is currently head of communications and supporter experience. She will take up her new role on 20 February.
Browning replaces interim chief executive Asheem Singh at Acevo, and starts in her new role today.
International animal charity Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad (SPANA) has appointed Geoffrey Dennis as its new chief executive.
Dennis joins SPANA from the Royal National Children’s Foundation, where he was the chief executive. Prior to working for the Foundation, he spent ten years as chief executive of Care International UK.
Dennis takes over from Jeremy Hulme who retired from the charity at the end of 2016, having led the charity for 28 years.
International development charity Send a Cow has announced the appointment of Paul Stuart as its new chief executive.
Stuart has been in the interim chief executive role since March 2016 and, prior to this, spent four years as the organisation’s chief operating officer.
Prior to joining the charity, Stuart spent 12 years as the head of an international publishing house and spent a year as a country manager in Mozambique with Oasis International.
Mike Dixon has been appointed as chief executive of drug and alcohol treatment charity Addaction. He will take up his new role on 1 May.
Dixon joins the organisation from Citizens Advice, where he is currently assistance chief executive, a position he has held for the last six years.
Prior to joining Citizens Advice, Dixon was director at Victim Support, and also worked as an adviser in the Cabinet Office, the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs and the Department for International Development.
Non executive
Former Prime Minister David Cameron has been appointed as the new president of Alzheimer’s Research UK.
In his time in office, Cameron launched the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge in 2012, and launched Alzheimer’s Research UK’s £100m ‘Defeat Dementia’ campaign during a G7 event in 2014.
Cameron made the announcement on both his personal Facebook and Twitter feeds last week.
Independent life science research charity MRC Technology has appointed Steve Visscher as a trustee.
MRC Technology progresses medical research in areas where there is unmet patient need.
Visscher is currently deputy chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
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