APPOINTMENTS
Engage Britain is a new organisation focused on tackling our country’s most difficult and divisive challenges. Our mission is to show that we can be optimistic about the future by putting people at the heart of finding ways forward on the biggest challenges facing our country. We will chart a new course for policymaking that bridges divides and will support all those who wish to be involved to develop ways forward that are politically sustainable and make a real difference.
Engage Britain is a new organisation focused on tackling our country’s most difficult and divisive challenges. Our mission is to show that we can be optimistic about the future by putting people at the heart of finding ways forward on the biggest challenges facing our country. We will chart a new course for policymaking that bridges divides and will support all those who wish to be involved to develop ways forward that are politically sustainable and make a real difference.
Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre and one of the UK’s top five visitor attractions, occupying a 17 acre site that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. We exist to present great cultural experiences that bring people together and we achieve this by providing the space for artists to create and present their best work and by creating a place where as many people as possible can come together to experience bold, unusual and eye-opening work. We want to take people out of the everyday, every day.
The BBRS will provide an industry funded dispute resolution service to resolve historic and future disputes between SMEs and participating providers of banking services in a transparent, timely and accessible manner without the need for litigation. We are guided by the commitment to do and be seen to do what is right, fair, and reasonable at all times. We now have a Board, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Adjudicator in place to ensure we do this.
Hft is one of the largest and longest-established charities in England and Wales supporting people with learning disabilities. We are passionate about what we do and use our unique understanding of the challenges facing the people we support to speak up with them to bring about positive change.
Conserving the Old Royal Naval College – Sir Christopher Wren’s riverside masterpiece – for the benefit of the nation has been at the core of the Greenwich Foundation’s mission since we were established in 1998 and we continually respond to the exciting challenges of this significant responsibility. Today, the site is used intensively for education, filming, discovery, spectacular programming and ceremonial occasions. We are also the landlord for University of Greenwich’s flagship campus and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Conserving, managing, presenting and developing the estate are the heart of what this role is all about. We want as many people as possible to feel that this is a place for them, a cultural destination and an educational campus.
Founded a decade ago, 38 Degrees is an influential campaigning organisation, involving more than 2 million people from every corner of the UK. Everything we do is driven by our members. We are passionate about empowering people to have a voice and influence the most important issues facing the UK today. Our campaigns are chosen and led by our members and we hold the most powerful to account, to stand up for a fairer society.
Human life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges. Global demand on natural resources has reached a critical level, whilst public engagement with climate change has never been so high. That’s why, as we reach our twentieth year, the need for our expertise is greater than ever. WRAP works with governments, businesses and citizens to create a world in which resources are used sustainably. Our mission is to accelerate the move to a sustainable, resource-efficient economy. Our focus areas are food and drink, plastic packaging and clothing and textiles.
Mind in Croydon is a mental health charity founded in 1967. Over the last 50 years, we have evolved into a significant provider of mental health services in the Croydon and surrounding areas. We work in co-production with service-users to develop individualised, effective support plans. As a long-standing community organisation, well respected and with strong local connections, we have a great spirit of social justice. We put our users at the heart of all we do, including representation at board level and throughout the organisation’s committees.
Hft is one of the largest and longest-established charities in England and Wales supporting people with learning disabilities. We are passionate about what we do and use our unique understanding of the challenges facing the people we support to speak up with them to bring about positive change.
Hft is one of the largest and longest-established charities in England and Wales supporting people with learning disabilities. We are passionate about what we do and use our unique understanding of the challenges facing the people we support to speak up with them to bring about positive change.
Founded a decade ago, 38 Degrees is an influential campaigning organisation, involving more than 2 million people from every corner of the UK. Everything we do is driven by our members. We are passionate about empowering people to have a voice and influence the most important issues facing the UK today. Our campaigns are chosen and led by our members and we hold the most powerful to account, to stand up for a fairer society.
The Centre for Ageing Better is passionate about achieving its positive vision of a society in which everyone enjoys later life. We seek to bring about long-lasting changes in policy and practice informed by evidence so that more people approaching later life are in good health, fulfilling work, and live in safe and accessible homes and connected communities. Established in 2015, with an endowment from the National Lottery Community Fund, our organisation is now widely recognised as a leading authority on ageing issues.
We are currently working with a small Charity to support them recruit an Interim Finance and Resources Director as they embark on a period of change. This role is based in London and can be undertaken on a 4/5 day a week basis. It’s offered on an initial term of 12 months on a salaried basis.
The Lending Standards Board (LSB) is at the forefront of promoting fairer outcomes for consumers of banking services. It exercises rigorous independent oversight and compliance of Lending Standards and Codes of conduct, including the new code to protect consumers from payment scams and that on bank branch closures. Working closely with the FCA, the industry and consumer groups, it provides assurance that standards of conduct agreed to by participating financial services firms are being adhered to.
Belu is an ethical business that operates in multi-billion-pound markets. We compete with global brands like Evian and San Pellegrino in bottled water, and through a collaboration with Brita, deliver water filtration solutions to the UK’s food service industry. In the past nine years of trading Belu has grown to become one of the UK’s best-known social enterprises. We are proud to have given more than £4m to WaterAid, including £1m in 2018 alone, BUT there is so much more yet to be achieved.
Recovery Focus is a group of expert charitable organisations working in a new form of collaboration to deliver the best possible outcomes for the people who use our services. The Group’s vision for the future is a society that values everyone including those with mental health or addiction issues. We are working to inspire individual recovery and believe that with the right support, recovery – however that’s defined by an individual – is achievable for everyone.
The Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards has a brand new mission. The future of our labour economy is crucial to the UK and we want to make it easier for our members to contribute to a productive and resilient UK workforce, and to help government consolidate a UK skills system that is recognised by employers and workers as best in class. Our members are groups of employers who have chosen to collaborate on skills in their sectors.
The Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) is a new industry-funded voluntary dispute resolution service that is being set up to resolve historic and future disputes between SMEs and participating providers of banking services.
The Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) is a new industry-funded voluntary dispute resolution service that is being set up to resolve historic and future disputes between SMEs and participating providers of banking services.
At the RSPCA, we’re proud to be the oldest welfare charity. We’ve been saving animals for almost 200 years, driven by our vision to end the misery of the thousands who suffer from neglect, cruelty and abuse each year. But there is still much to do.
The Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) is a new industry-funded voluntary dispute resolution service that is being set up to resolve historic and future disputes between SMEs and participating providers of banking services.
The Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards has a brand new mission. The future of our labour economy is crucial to the UK and we want to make it easier for our members to contribute to a productive and resilient UK workforce, and to help government consolidate a UK skills system that is recognised by employers and workers as best in class. Our members are groups of employers who have chosen to collaborate on skills in their sectors.
Established in the 1970’s, the Makaton language programme is widely recognised internationally. Makaton uses signs, symbols and speech to help people communicate. It is designed to support spoken language and the signs and symbols are used with speech in spoken word order, which helps provide extra clues about what someone is saying. With Makaton, children and adults can communicate straightaway with signs and symbols. For those who have experienced the frustration of being unable to communicate meaningfully or effectively, Makaton opens up all kinds of possibilities by enabling people to connect with others and with the world around them.
The Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) is a new industry-funded voluntary dispute resolution service that is being set up to resolve historic and future disputes between SMEs and participating providers of banking services.
The Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) is a new industry-funded voluntary dispute resolution service that is being set up to resolve historic and future disputes between SMEs and participating providers of banking services.
We are recruiting an Interim to lead on business performance improvement, integration and change for a Charity in the South-West.
With 15 years of experience, Sedex works with some of the world’s most recognisable brands and standard-setting organisations, including the United Nations and Ethical Trade Initiative. We believe that, working with the right information and technologies, business really can shape the future of global trade to have an increasingly positive impact worldwide.
We are looking for an experienced Interim Chief Executive who has led complex, multi-site organisations delivering services to the public.
We are actively seeking new trustees to join our board. Earlier this year, we relaunched our charity with a bold and inclusive new brand and an ambitious four-year strategy aimed at making our grant-making more focused and doubling the number of clergy families which we help. Following a review of current skills and expertise, the Trust is now seeking new trustees who can bring expertise in: investment; finance, audit and risk, social work and social policy, and welfare and benefits. We are seeking people who are proven leaders within their field, who have strategic acumen and the ability to see the bigger picture. You will be an excellent communicator with highly effective interpersonal and influencing skills, sound and independent judgement, and the ability to think creatively. Of course, we are also looking for people who share our deep commitment to the wellbeing of Anglican clergy families today.
Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest (Mind CHWF) is a multi-disciplinary provider of specialist mental health services and one the largest Minds in London. It delivers cutting edge, holistic and evidence-based services and works in co-production with service-users to develop individualised, effective support plans. As a long-standing community organisation, well respected in its area and with outstanding connections, it has a strong spirit of social justice and determination to support others, putting users at the heart of all it does.
The British Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global voluntary network, responding to conflicts, natural disasters and individual emergencies. We enable vulnerable people in the UK and abroad to prepare for and withstand emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, we help them to recover and move on with their lives. Within the UK, the British Red Cross operates through about 3500 staff and over 20,000 volunteers.
These are exciting times at the Lending Standards Board (LSB). Following the launch of the Standards of Lending Practice for business customers in 2017 we embarked on a mission to become the home of voluntary standards for the financial services industry, seeking to extend our remit beyond consumer credit.
Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) is the independent charity that looks after Hampton Court Palace, the Tower of London, the Banqueting House Whitehall, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace and Hillsborough Castle. We are a charity and a commercial business, raising all our own funds and depending on the support of visitors, members, donors, sponsors and volunteers. We have an extensive record of achievement in recent years, and ambitious plans for the future of all our sites.
GambleAware is an independent charity tasked to fund research, education and treatment services to help reduce gambling-related harms in Great Britain. A commissioning and grant-making body rather than a service provider, its strategic aim is to broaden public awareness of gambling as a public health issue while helping those suffering from gambling-related harms get help and support quickly and effectively.
As well as our long-established Standards of Lending Practice for Personal Customers, and our more recent Standards of Lending Practice for Business Customers (promoting best practice in the way small businesses are treated), we promote and oversee voluntary codes on bank branch closures, payments scams and open banking.