Our weekly round-up of all the latest movers in the charity sector.
Chief executive
Graeme Brown has been appointed as the interim chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter, and will take up his position from the beginning of January next year.
Brown is currently the director of Shelter Scotland. He will lead the organisation following the departure of Shelter’s current chief executive, Campbell Robb, who will step down at the end of the year.
Brown has been director of Shelter Scotland since July 2008. Prior to that he was director of communications, policy and campaigns at Shelter UK.
The Royal Society of Medicine has appointed Helen Gordon as chief executive.
Gordon joins the RSM from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society where she held the position of chief executive since joining the organisation in 2010. Gordon was also previously chief executive of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Hillingdon Hospital and Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust.
Gordon will take up her new role in March 2017, and will be responsible for delivering the RSM’s new strategy. She will be responsible to both its board and president.
Fundraising and communications
Tim Singleton is joining the Department for International Development as head of communications.
Singleton is joining DFID from ITV, where has deputy editor and director of newsgathering. He worked for the wider ITN organisation for 24 years as a journalist.
Finance and strategy
Nathan Lee has been appointed head of region for the North West at the Heritage Lottery Trust.
He joins the organisation from Arts Council England. Before that he was at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, and has held a variety of senior management positions across the North and North West of England since 2007.
He will lead a 17-strong team based in Manchester responsible for promoting, assessing and awarding HLF grants across the region.
Non-executive
Oxfam GB has appointed Caroline Thomas as the next chair of its council of trustees. Thomas will join the organisation as a trustee in March and will take up the role of chair in October 2017.
Thomas currently holds a number of non-executive position, including her role as chair of Digital UK and a non-executive directorship at the Vitec Group plc.
Thomas was previously a senior executive at the BBC, before leaving in 2012 to become chief executive of the English National Ballet.
Jo Bucci has been announced as the new chair of The Lotteries Council.
Bucci is currently the managing director of the People’s Postcode Lottery. She replaces previous chair Clive Mollett, who passed away in October.
Before joining The People’s Postcode Lottery in 2007, Bucci was previously the deputy chief executive at Leicester City Football Club and the group commercial director at Capital Radio Group.
