Our weekly round-up of all the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief executive
Louise Cooper has been appointed as chief executive of School Governors One-Stop Shop (SGOSS) Governors for Schools.
According to the SSGOS, Cooper will be “responsible for leading” the organisation “through the next stage of its growth and to more than double the number of placements it makes each year”.
SSGOS supplies “a free governor search and selection service for schools keen to recruit candidates with commercial experience to bolster existing skills on their board of governors”.
Cooper previously worked at LEK Consulting, with HM Treasury, Tesco and was most recently business development director at the London Early Years Foundation.
Finance and strategy
World Vision UK has appointed Chine McDonald as its new head of Christian influence and engagement, a newly created position with the charity.
McDonald will took up the new role at the beginning of March and joined World Vision from the Evangelical Alliance, where she was previously communications director.
Her role will be “focused on developing and implementing a new strategy to engage and further equip the UK church for its mission to help the world’s most vulnerable children”.
Non executive
Armed forces charity SSAFA has appointed Sir Gary Coward as its new chair.
Coward is a retired senior British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from September 2009 until his retirement in May 2012.
His is currently a patron of another armed forces charity Solider On! and is also chair of Redline Assured Security.
Tiffany Huang and Emma Osborne have both been appointed to VisionFund International’s board of directors.
Huang is currently based in Taiwan as senior partner at law firm Baker & McKenzie, while Osborne currently works within group Investments at Australian-based insurance company QBE.
In 2016, VisionFund utilised microfinance to “impact the lives of 4.4 million children worldwide”.
The Book Trust has appointed Daddy Pig, father of Peppa, as its new ambassador.
The charity said that Daddy Pig is “one of the world’s most famous pigs, is father to Peppa and George and husband to Mummy”, an architect by trade and will be “working with the charity on upcoming projects”.
The announcement was made together with Entertainment One who own the global brand rights to Peppa Pig books and the television programme.
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